<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta name="generator" content= "HTML Tidy for Linux/x86 (vers 1 September 2005), see www.w3.org"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content= "text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <title>Chapter 3. Selecting and Downloading the NVIDIA Packages for Your System</title> <meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.68.1"> <link rel="start" href="index.html" title= "NVIDIA Accelerated Linux Graphics Driver README and Installation Guide"> <link rel="up" href="installationandconfiguration.html" title= "Part I. Installation and Configuration Instructions"> <link rel="prev" href="minimumrequirements.html" title= "Chapter 2. Minimum Software Requirements"> <link rel="next" href="installdriver.html" title= "Chapter 4. Installing the NVIDIA Driver"> </head> <body> <div class="navheader"> <table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"> <tr> <th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter 3. Selecting and Downloading the NVIDIA Packages for Your System</th> </tr> <tr> <td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href= "minimumrequirements.html">Prev</a> </td> <th width="60%" align="center">Part I. Installation and Configuration Instructions</th> <td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href= "installdriver.html">Next</a></td> </tr> </table> <hr></div> <div class="chapter" lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h2 class="title"><a name="selectdriver" id= "selectdriver"></a>Chapter 3. Selecting and Downloading the NVIDIA Packages for Your System</h2> </div> </div> </div> <p>NVIDIA drivers can be downloaded from the NVIDIA website (<a href="http://www.nvidia.com" target= "_top">http://www.nvidia.com</a>).</p> <p>The NVIDIA graphics driver uses a Unified Driver Architecture: the single graphics driver supports all modern NVIDIA GPUs. "Legacy" GPU support has been moved from the unified driver to special legacy GPU driver releases. See <a href= "supportedchips.html" title= "Appendix A. Supported NVIDIA GPU Products">Appendix A, <i>Supported NVIDIA GPU Products</i></a> for a list of legacy GPUs.</p> <p>The NVIDIA graphics driver is bundled in a self-extracting package named <code class= "filename">NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-331.79.run</code>. On Linux-x86_64, that file contains both the 64-bit driver binaries as well as 32-bit compatibility driver binaries; the <code class= "filename">NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-331.79-no-compat32.run</code> file only contains the 64-bit driver binaries.</p> </div> <div class="navfooter"> <hr> <table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"> <tr> <td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href= "minimumrequirements.html">Prev</a> </td> <td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href= "installationandconfiguration.html">Up</a></td> <td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href= "installdriver.html">Next</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="40%" align="left" valign="top"> Chapter 2. Minimum Software Requirements </td> <td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href= "index.html">Home</a></td> <td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Chapter 4. Installing the NVIDIA Driver</td> </tr> </table> </div> </body> </html>