Install Nvidia Driver 346.16 Beta in Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Pinguy OS, LXLE, Linux Lite, Deepin, Peppermint, Debian, Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Mageia and OpenMandriva.

Install Nvidia Driver 346.16 Beta in Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Pinguy OS, LXLE, Linux Lite, Deepin, Peppermint, Debian, Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Mageia and OpenMandriva.

Hello, i want to share about how to Install Nvidia Driver 346.16 Beta in Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Pinguy OS, LXLE, Linux Lite, Deepin, Peppermint, Debian, Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Mageia and OpenMandriva. Nvidia Linux Display Driver Beta is a proprietary OpenGL video driver that tries to bring bleeding-edge features for graphics cards produced by Nvidia and used under a GNU/Linux operating system. Both 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x86_64) architectures are supported at this time. Read this page for more information about Install Nvidia Driver 346.16 Beta in Linux Mint, Ubuntu and Debian Based Distro

Nvidia Linux Display Driver 346.16 Beta Highlights :

• Added support for the following GPUs:
GeForce GTX 970M
GeForce GTX 980M
• Fixed a bug that caused a blank screen when setting a mode requiring YUV 4:2:0 compression. These modes are not currently supported.
• Fixed a bug that caused an incorrect DisplayPort link configuration to be displayed after a hotplug or unplug.
• Added support for decoding VP8 video streams using the NVCUVID API on GPUs with VP8 hardware decode support.
• Added support for the following EGL extensions:
EGL_EXT_device_base
EGL_EXT_platform_device
EGL_EXT_output_base
• Added the ability to increase the operating voltage on certain GeForce GPUs in the GeForce GTX 400 series and later. Voltage adjustments are done at the user's own risk. See the documentation on the "CoolBits" X configuration option in the README for details.

For more information on the major Nvidia Linux Display Driver Changes in the upcoming version 346.16 Beta please consult this page. 

To Install Nvidia Driver 346.16 Beta in Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Pinguy OS, LXLE, Linux Lite, Deepin, Peppermint, Debian, Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Mageia and OpenMandriva, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

For 32 bit systems:

wget us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/346.16/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-346.16.run

For 64 bit systems:

wget us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/346.16/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-346.16.run

Set execution permissions:

sudo chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-*-346.16.run

Kill the display manager, which can either be: kdm for KDE, gdm for Gnome, lightdm for LXDE and XFCE, mdm (for Linux Mint):

sudo /etc/init.d/kdm stop

OR:

sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop

OR:

sudo /etc/init.d/lightdm stop

OR:

sudo /etc/init.d/mdm stop

And finally, run the Nvidia binary file:

sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-*-346.16.run

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