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NVIDIA developers officially announces the release of NVIDIA 343.36 driver with few new additions and several bugfixes. This is the most advanced stable version of NVIDIA driver available for Linux Distros. With the rapid increase in Linux usage, NVIDIA making its reputation among Linux users by providing graphics driver for Linux users.

According to official announcement, NVIDIA 343.36 driver comes with support for X.Org xserver ABI 19 along with improved compatibility with recent Linux Kernels. It also implemented support for disabling indirect GLX context creation using the -glx option available on X.Org server release 1.16 and newer. The future X.Org server releases may make the -iglx option the default.

This release also adds "AllowIndirectGLXProtocol" X config option which is used to disallow use of GLX protocol. Apart from these minor new additions, this release also includes several bugfixes like fixed a regression which prevents NVIDIA X driver from recognizing Base Mosaic layouts generated by nvidia-settings control panel. It also fixes a bug which causes incorrect colors to be displayed on X screens running at depth 8 on some GPUs. Also, review recent Software News to know what's new in software world ?

Among other bugfixes, it includes fixing a bug that prevents GPUs from being correctly recognized in MetaMode strings when ientified by UUID, fixed a bug which causes VT-switching to fail following a suspend, resume and driver reload sequence and fixed a crash with UnrealEngine 4 when the application was started with the -opengl4 commandline switch. For other list of fixes, you must visit their official release notes page.

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