Nvidia Linux ARM Display Driver 32-bit

Nvidia Linux ARM Display Driver is a proprietary 3D OpenGL native video driver that aims to support Nvidia graphics cards on Linux operating systems that run on ARM hardware. It’s distributed in two main branches, as Short Lived (short term supported) or Long Lived (long term supported), offering support only for the 32-bit (x86)  instruction set architectures.

Installing Nvidia Linux ARM Display Driver

In order to install the Nvidia Linux ARM Display Driver, download the binary package from the Downloads section, and execute the sh ./ NVIDIA-Linux-armv7l-gnueabihf-xxx.xx.run command as root in a Linux Terminal (where xxx.xx is the version number) to install the driver.

During the installation, users will be asked if they want to edit the X configuration file manually or let the installer do all the work. Alternatively, after installation, you can run the nvidia-xconfig command via a Linux Terminal to set the new driver as default.

Is my ARM hardware supported?

Yes, most probably! You will be able to install the Nvidia Linux ARM Display Driver on any ARM hardware, but keep in mind that this drive only supports 32-bit instruction set architectures. Therefore, if you’re running it on a 64-bit ARM computer, it won’t work. We will updated this information as soon as Nvidia will release an updated ARM video driver that supports 64-bit architectures.

What about old Nvidia graphics cards!

What about them? This is a recent driver that has been designed to support only relatively new graphics card produced by Nvidia in the last couple of years. This means that no legacy video card is supported by this driver. If you encounter issues with your GPU, try to install the Short Lived branch first, and then the Long Lived branch, after uninstalling the former.

What is new in this release:

• Improved compatibility with recent Linux kernels.
• Fixed an intermittent hang of Vulkan applications running fullscreen when flipping is allowed.
• Removed informational messages that were printed by nvidia-modeset.ko whenever a GPU device was allocated or freed.
• Fixed a bug that caused kwin OpenGL compositing to crash when launching certain OpenGL applications.

What is new in version 390.67:

• Fixed a bug that could cause kernel panics when using Quadro SDI Capture hardware.
• Fixed a bug that caused kwin OpenGL compositing to crash when launching certain OpenGL applications.
• Fixed an intermittent crash when launching Vulkan applications.
• Fixed an intermittent crash when launching applications through Wine.
• Fixed a bug that caused the driver, in some low bandwidth DisplayPort configurations, to not implicitly enable display dithering. This resulted in visible banding.
• Added support for X.Org xserver ABI 24 (xorg-server 1.20).
• Improved nvidia-bug-report.sh to check for kern.log which is the default kernel log-file location for many Debian-based Linux distributions.
• Fixed a bug which could cause X servers that export a Video Driver ABI earlier than 0.8 to crash when running X11 applications which call XRenderAddTraps().

What is new in version :

• Added support for the following GPU:
• TITAN V
• GTX 1070 Ti
• Fixed a bug that caused Vulkan X11 swapchains to fail on GPUs without a
• display engine, such as some Tesla-branded graphics cards and some Optimus laptops.
• Fixed a bug that caused fullscreen Vulkan applications to hang on some
• Kepler GPUs, such as the GeForce GTX 680.
• Fixed a bug where the G-SYNC indicator was reporting "normal" instead
• of "G-SYNC" on Vulkan applications when G-SYNC was enabled.

What is new in version 387.22:

• Added support for the following GPU:
• GTX 1070Ti
• Fixed a regression that could cause driver errors when setting modes that include DisplayPort Multi-Stream Transport devices.
• Added an nvidia.ko kernel module parameter, NVreg_EnableBacklightHandler, which can be used to enable experimental handling of laptop backlight brightness through /sys/class/backlight/. This handler overrides the ACPI-based one provided by the video.ko kernel module.
• NVreg_EnableBacklightHandler is disabled by default.
• Added G-SYNC to all supported Vulkan swapchains for Maxwell and up. G-SYNC is enabled by default when using G-SYNC-ready monitors. For direct-to-display swapchains, an application profile with "GLGSYNCAllowed" setting set to 'false' can be used to disable this feature:
• { "rules" : [
• { "pattern" : [], "profile" : [ "GLGSYNCAllowed", false ] }
• Fixed a regression that caused some display connectors on some GPUs to not report a connected HDMI or DisplayPort audio device even if the connected monitor supports audio.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes prevented the "Reset Default Configuration" button in the nvidia-settings "ECC Settings" page from being available when the ECC configuration is set to a non-default state.
• Fixed a bug that caused nvidia-settings to enforce overly aggressive limits on display positions in the "X Server Display Configuration" page under some circumstances.
• Fixed a bug that could cause the "Enable Base Mosaic (Surround)" checkbox in nvidia-settings to disappear when an X screen, rather than a display, is selected in the "X Server Display Configuration" page.
• Fixed a race condition that could lead to crashes when OpenGL programs manipulated vertex buffer objects from multiple threads simultaneously.
• Fixed a bug that caused the nvidia-settings control panel to retain some settings that had been applied, but not confirmed. This resulted in unwanted settings being applied to subsequent settings changes.
• Improved performance of fullscreen Vulkan applications using X11 swapchains. This optimization will cause more events that trigger an out-of-date swapchain, such as when entering or leaving fullscreen mode. (This is commonly encountered when using the alt-tab key combination, for example.) Applications that do not properly respond to the VK_ERROR_OUT_OF_DATE_KHR return code may not function properly when these events occur. See section 30.8 of the Vulkan specification.
• Added support for YUV 4:2:0 compression for monitors connected via DisplayPort in configurations where either the display or GPU is incapable of driving the current mode in RGB 4:4:4. See the description in the "Programming Modes" appendix for details.
• Added framebuffer console hot plug handling to nvidia-modeset.
• Note that hot plugging is only handled when nvidia-modeset is initialized; for example, when Xorg or nvidia-persistenced is running or when nvidia-drm is loaded with the "modeset=1" parameter.
• Added an "AllowGSYNC" MetaMode attribute that can be used to disable G-SYNC completely. This can be use to allow enabling features that are incompatible with G-SYNC, such as Ultra Low Motion Blur or Frame Lock.
• Fixed several problems that prevented the "cc_version_check" sanity test from running correctly when building the NVIDIA kernel modules. As these problems would have masked mismatches between the compiler versions used to build the kernel and the NVIDIA kernel modules for an extended period of time, nvidia-installer has been updated to ignore CC version mismatches by default when they are detected.
• Updated nvidia-installer to use the init_module syscall directly to test load kernel modules instead of libkmod/insmod. This removes libkmod as a build dependency of nvidia-installer, and insmod as a run-time dependency.
• Tiled monitors formerly resulted in a separate Xinerama screen being reported for each tile. They will now, by default, be combined into a single large Xinerama screen.
• The individual panels in a tiled monitor will now be arranged based on the layout information provided in the monitor's EDID. This can be overridden by either manually specifying offsets or using the "MetaModeOrientation" option.
• Disabled interlaced modes over DisplayPort by default due to incomplete support in the GPU. Added "AllowDpInterlaced" mode validation token to override this default behavior and allow interlaced modes over DisplayPort protocol anyway.
• Fixed a bug that could cause some eDP G-SYNC displays to flicker at low refresh rates.
• Fixed a bug that could cause OpenGL applications to crash after a prolonged DPMS sleep state on a monitor driven with PRIME Sync.
• Fixed a bug that artificially limited the maximum pixel clock to 300 MHz when using certain more capable DisplayPort to HDMI adapters.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the NVIDIA kernel modules from building for non-SMP Linux kernels.
• Updated the output of `nvidia-smi nvlink --status` to include reporting NVLink speed.
• Fixed a bug that caused incorrect PCI topology reporting in nvidia-smi on Intel Skylake systems.

What is new in version 381.22:

• Fixed a bug that caused the GLX_EXT_buffer_age buffer age extension to return incorrect values for stereo drawables when using passive stereo modes 5 through 9.
• Fixed a bug in Vulkan direct to display where DP1.2 monitors were not being enumerated.
• Improved compatibility with recent kernels.
• Fixed a bug that caused "nvidia-settings --query all" to print many duplicate entries.
• Fixed a bug that caused applications to crash in some situations when calling glXMakeCurrent while OpenGL threaded optimizations were enabled. This frequently occurred when Steam was attempting to make a video appear full-screen.
• Fixed a bug that caused VDPAU applications to use the blit presentation queue when a previous VDPAU application didn't shut down cleanly.
• Fixed hangs and crashes that could occur when an OpenGL context is created while the system is out of available memory.
• Fixed a bug that caused corruption when OpenGL windows were moved or resized.
• Fixed a bug that caused X screens that use Option "UseDisplayDevice" "none" to be resized to 640x480 when using "xrandr -s" to change the screen configuration.
• Fixed a kernel crash that occurred when attempting to map large user memory allocations into CUDA.
• Disabled OpenGL threaded optimizations by default, initially enabled in 378.09, due to various reports of instability.
• Added support for the following Vulkan extensions:
• VK_EXT_acquire_xlib_display
• VK_EXT_display_control
• VK_EXT_display_surface_counter
• VK_EXT_direct_mode_display
• VK_KHX_external_memory
• VK_KHX_external_memory_fd
• VK_KHX_external_semaphore
• VK_KHX_external_semaphore_fd
• These extensions require a Vulkan loader version >= 1.0.42.
• Removed the X driver's logo splash screen and the corresponding NoLogoand LogoPathxorg.conf options.
• Added the "ResamplingMethod" MetaMode option, adding support for bicubic resampling methods when scaling screen transformations are in use. See the README for more details.

What is new in version 375.20:

• Added support for the following GPUs:
• GeForce GTX 1050
• GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
• Quadro M620
• Quadro M5000 SE
• Quadro M3000 SE
• Fixed a bug that could cause displays in SLI Mosaic to blank when applying a transformation matrix.
• Added EGL support to the GL Vendor Neutral Dispatch Library (libGLVND). The installer package now includes both GLVND and non-GLVND versions of the EGL libraries: the --glvnd-egl-client and --no-glvnd-egl-client options in nvidia-installer can be used to select which to install.
• Fixed a bug that prevented G-SYNC from working on notebook displays.
• Fixed a bug that caused DisplayPort multistream devices to go blank after the console is restored.
• Fixed a bug that caused a kernel crash when starting X for the second time when more than one DisplayPort multistream device is connected to a single DisplayPort connector via a branch device.
• Updated nvidia-settings to not have a build-time dependence on an external nvml development package (a regression introduced in 375.10).
• Fixed a crash in nvidia-settings when adding Application Profile Rule and Profile entries.
• Removed the "Enable Tooltip" option in nvidia-settings for the GTK 2 interface.
• Added new X configuration options:
• ForceCompositionPipeline
• ForceFullCompositionPipeline
• which override the MetaMode tokens with the same names.
• Fixed a bug that caused issues with panning and cursor constraining when mixing PRIME-driven displays with natively driven displays.
• Fixed a bug that caused long delays when leaving the VT or disabling a display device while an OpenGL application is running.
• Improved console restore behavior on systems that use the UEFI Graphics Output Protocol, and most vesafb modes.
• Added support for the RandR TILE property added in RandR 1.5.
• Raised the on-disk OpenGL shader cache size from 64MB to 128MB. Refer to the "Specifying OpenGL Environment Variable Settings" section of the driver README for details on how to select its location or disable it.
• Fixed a bug in synchronization primitives shared between X and OpenGL.
• Added support for X.Org xserver ABI 23 (xorg-server 1.19)
• Fixed a bug that allowed nvidia-installer to attempt loading kernel modules that were built against non-running kernels.

What is new in version 370.28:

• Fixed undefined symbol references in libnvidia-glcore.so.
• Fixed a potential hang in Vulkan applications such as vkQuake and DOTA2 that use vkFences for present synchronization.
• Fixed a bug that caused the driver to not set HDMI YUV 420 4K modes correctly on some TVs, such as the VIZIO D40u-D1.
• Updated CurrentMetaMode reporting via the NV-CONTROL API to reflect whether ForceCompositionPipeline or ForceFullCompositionPipeline are set in the current MetaMode.
• Added the ability to over- and under-clock certain GeForce GPUs in the GeForce GTX 1000 series and later. For GPUs that allow it, an offset can be applied to clock values in some clock domains of all performance levels. This clock manipulation is done at the user's own risk. See the README documentation of the "CoolBits" X configuration option for more details.
• Implemented initial support for PRIME Synchronization to synchronize flipping between an NVIDIA PRIME display source and a separate PRIME display sink. This support is experimental and currently requires a prerelease X.org X server.
• Fixed a bug that prevented Vulkan applications from presenting from multiple queues to the same X11 swapchain.
• Added the "PixelShiftMode" MetaMode option, enabling support for 4K and 8K pixel shift displays. See the README for details.

What is new in version 346.72:

• Fixed a bug causing loss of stereo synchronization in certain Quadro Sync framelock configurations.
• Fixed Pixel Buffer Object operations when row length is less than width. GL_[UN]PACK_ROW_LENGTH can be set to a value lower than the width of the operation being carried out. The OpenGL specification allows for this (the source or destination lines will be overlapping). Previously, our implementation of Pixel Buffer Objects did not support this case and would throw an error.
• Fixed a rare deadlock condition when running applications that use OpenGL in multiple threads on a Quadro GPU.

What is new in version 346.59:

• Added support for the following GPUs:
• Quadro K1200
• Quadro M6000
• GeForce 920M
• GeForce 930A
• GeForce 930M
• GeForce 940M
• GeForce GTX 950M
• GeForce GTX 960M
• GeForce GTX TITAN X
• Fixed a bug that caused corruption when switching display modes in some applications that use transform feedback.
• Fixed a bug that caused texture corruption on framebuffer depth attachments cleared using glClearTexImage().
• Fixed a bug that artificially limited the maximum pixel clock on displays in some SLI Mosaic configurations.
• Fixed a kernel memory leak that occurred when looping hardware-accelerated video decoding with VDPAU on Maxell-based GPUs.
• Fixed a bug that could cause nvidia-settings to crash on exit on 32-bit Linux systems.

What is new in version 346.35:

• Added support for the following GPUs:
• GeForce 800A
• GeForce 800M
• GeForce GTX 970M
• GeForce GTX 980M
• Added support for X.Org xserver ABI 19 (xorg-server 1.17).
• Improved compatibility with recent Linux kernels.
• Fixed a bug that prevented internal 4K panels on some laptops from being driven at a sufficient bandwidth to support their native resolutions.
• Fixed a regression that prevented the NVIDIA kernel module from loading in some virtualized environments such as Amazon Web Services.
• Fixed a regression that caused displays to be detected incorrectly on some notebook systems.
• Fixed a bug that could cause X to freeze when using Base Mosaic.
• Fixed a regression that prevented the NVIDIA X driver from recognizing Base Mosaic layouts generated by the nvidia-settings control panel.
• Updated the NVIDIA X driver to reject frame packed interlaced HDMI 3D modes during mode validation. These modes were being validated by the driver, despite never having been supported.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the console from being restored after forcefully terminating X, on some GPUs with multiple DisplayPort monitors attached. This bug also subsequently prevented X from being started following the failed console restoration.
• Updated the version of libvdpau shipped with the driver to 0.9. This version honors the VDPAU_DRIVER_PATH environment variable and fixes a race condition if multiple threads call VdpDeviceCreateX11 simultaneously. See http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/vdpau/2014-December/000274.html for more information.
• Please note that users are encouraged to use their distribution's libvdpau packages rather than relying on the one shipped with the NVIDIA graphics driver.
• Fixed a bug that caused the ACPI hotkey mask to be set incorrectly on some laptops even when the EnableACPIHotkeys option is disabled.
• Disabled the EnableACPIHotkeys option by default. This option is now considered deprecated and will be removed in a future driver release. On modern Linux systems, display change hotkey events are delivered to the desktop environment as key press events, and the desktop environment handles the display change by issuing requests through the X Resize and Rotate extension (RandR).
• Fixed a bug that caused the screen image to be shifted when screen transformations (such as rotations or reflections) were enabled on a G-SYNC display attached to a Kepler-based GPU.
• 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.
• Added support for NVENC on GeForce GPUs. For more details on the NVENC SDK, see: https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-video-codec-sdk.
• Removed a sanity check in nvidia-installer that tested the availability of POSIX shared memory. The NVIDIA GPU driver has not required POSIX shared memory since release 270.xx.
• Removed the NVIDIA Unified Memory kernel module, nvidia-uvm.ko, from the driver package on 32-bit architectures.
• Added accelerated support for r8g8b8a8, r8g8b8x8, b8g8r8a8 and b8g8r8x8 RENDER formats.
• Updated nvidia-settings to take advantage of GTK+ 3, when available. This is implemented by building the nvidia-settings user interface into separate shared libraries (libnvidia-gtk2.so, libnvidia-gtk3.so), and loading the correct one at run-time.
• Added the nvidia-settings option --gtk-library to allow specifying the path of the directory containing the user interface library or the path and filename of the specific library to use.
• Added support in nvidia-settings for a GTK+ 3 user interface on x86 and x86_64.
• Added the nvidia-settings option --use-gtk2 to force the use of the GTK+ 2 UI library.
• Updated nvidia-installer to install a file in the system's xorg.conf.d directory, when a sufficiently new X server is detected, to cause the X server to load the "nvidia" X driver automatically if it is started after the NVIDIA kernel module is loaded.
• This feature is supported in X.Org xserver 1.16 and higher when running on Linux 3.9 or higher with CONFIG_DRM enabled.
• Improved the performance of nvidia-installer by enabling the use of parallel make when building the NVIDIA kernel modules. The concurrency level can be set with the --concurrency-level option, and defaults to the number of detected CPUs.
• Updated nvidia-installer to determine default installation locations for libraries based on the presence of known paths in the ldconfig(8) cache and the filesystem, rather than hardcoded distro-specific paths.
• Fixed a GLSL compiler bug that would produce corruption when running games such as Far Cry 3 in Wine.
• Fixed the EGL_KHR_stream_cross_process_fd extension.
• Fixed rendering corruption that sometimes happened when calling DrawElementsInstancedBaseVertexBaseInstance(), DrawElementsInstancedBaseInstance(), or DrawArraysInstancedBaseInstance().
• Dramatically improved OpenGL Framebuffer Object creation performance.
• Removed the limit on the maximum number of OpenGL Framebuffer Objects.
• Updated the NVIDIA OpenGL driver to prefer $XDG_CACHE_HOME over $HOME as the default location for storing the GL shader disk cache.