Nvidia acaba de publicar la primera versión estable de la serie de drivers 180 para Linux. Tras varias betas y (supongo) muchos bugs arreglados por fin tenemos una versión estable de esta rama, donde disponemos de OpenGL 3.0, soporte de Nvidia PureVideo (aceleración por hardware de video) y CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) 2.1.
El listado de mejoras completo (en inglés) y el link de descarga tras el salto.
- Added support for the following GPUs:
- Quadro FX 2700M
- GeForce 9400M G
- GeForce 9400M
- GeForce 9800 GT
- GeForce 8200M G
- GeForce Go 7700
- GeForce 9800M GTX
- GeForce 9800M GT
- GeForce 9800M GS
- GeForce 9500 GT
- GeForce 9700M GT
- GeForce 9650M GT
- GeForce 9500 GT
- Added initial support for PureVideo-like features via the new VDPAU API (see the vdpau.h header file installed with the driver).
- Added support for CUDA 2.1.
- Added preliminary support for OpenGL 3.0.
- Added new OpenGL workstation performance optimizations.
- Enabled the glyph cache by default and extended its support to all supported GPUs.
- Disabled shared memory X pixmaps by default; see the “AllowSHMPixmaps” option.
- Improved X pixmap placement on GeForce 8 series and later GPUs.
- Improved stability on some GeForce 8 series and newer GPUs.
- Fixed a regression that could result in window decoration corruption when running Compiz using Geforce 6 and 7 series GPUs.
- Fixed an nvidia-settings crash when xorg.conf contains Device and Screen sections but no ServerLayout section.
- Fixed a problem parsing the monitor sync range X config file options.
- Fixed a problem with the SDI sync skew controls in nvidia-settings.
- Fixed a problem that caused some SDI applications to hang or crash.
- Added support for SDI full-range color.
- Improved compatibility with recent Linux kernels.
Os podeis descargar estos drivers desde la web de nvidia, tanto para X86 como para X86_64. En el paso 2 (step 2) de dicha web encontrareis el link de descarga 
Saludos.
