NVIDIA 580.173.02 Linux Graphics Driver Released for GeForce 10 Series

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Marcus Nestor
Aug 6, 2026

The NVIDIA 580.173.02 graphics driver is here to fix an issue where OpenGL buffers allocated with glBufferStorage and no storage flags were allowed to migrate from GPU memory to host memory, as well as a bug that could cause black screens after modesets in X11 apps using the Present extension.

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Marcus Nestor

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