NVIDIA pulls *nix drivers as well

Recently we told you about NVidia pulling their drivers due to overheating issues. By overheating issues, NVidia means that the drivers caused the fan on NVidia graphics cards to stop working. Today the word is out that NVidia is pulling some Unix drivers as well for the same issue. From the DarkVision Hardware site:

The company says the 195.36.03 and 195.36.08 *nix drivers are affected by the issue and urges users to downgrade to driver version 190.53 or 195.30 public beta.

I just checked the NVidia driver site, and 190.53 which was release on December 16, 2009 is the most recent stable driver available for Linux 32-bit and 64-bit systems, with 195.30 being beta. My drivers are way out-of-date since they are 185.18.36 from August 2009.

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