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NVIDIA 550.54.14 Linux Graphics Driver Released with Many Improvements

posted by Marius Nestor on Feb 23, 2024,
updated Feb 25, 2024

Highlights of the NVIDIA 550.54.14 graphics driver include support for R8, GR88, and YCbCr GBM formats, support for transparent huge pages for the text section when available, experimental HDMI 10-bits per component support, and an application profile to improve KWin performance on hybrid GPU systems.

It also adds support for HDR signaling via the HDR_OUTPUT_METADATA and Colorspace per-connector DRM properties when loading nvidia-drm with the modeset=1 parameter, support for PRIME render offload to Vulkan Wayland WSI, and support for the CTM, DEGAMMA_LUT, and GAMMA_LUT DRM-KMS CRTC properties used by the “Night Light” feature in GNOME and the “Night Color” feature in KDE Plasma on Wayland.

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NVIDIA 550.54.14 driver released as stable

NVIDIA today launched the 550.54.14 Linux driver as stable coming with a whole bunch of fixes and improvements, so here's all that's changed.

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NVIDIA Driver 550.54.14 Released with Better Wayland Support

NVIDIA announced the first stable release for 550 series GNU/Linux driver this Friday. It’s NVIDIA Driver 550.54.14 released as latest production branch version. The release brings better support for Wayland, the more security touchscreen and HiDPI friendly display server, that’s already default in Ubuntu, Fedora, and other GNU/Linux with recent GNOME Desktop.

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