Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:08:21 +0200 Source: nvidia-graphics-drivers-177 Binary: nvidia-glx-177 nvidia-glx-177-dev nvidia-177-kernel-source nvidia-177-modaliases Architecture: amd64 Version: 177.80-0ubuntu1 Distribution: intrepid Urgency: low Maintainer: Ubuntu/amd64 Build Daemon Changed-By: Alberto Milone (tseliot) Description: nvidia-177-kernel-source - NVIDIA binary kernel module source nvidia-177-modaliases - Modaliases for the NVIDIA binary X.Org driver nvidia-glx-177 - NVIDIA binary Xorg driver nvidia-glx-177-dev - NVIDIA binary Xorg driver development files Launchpad-Bugs-Fixed: 275098 Changes: nvidia-graphics-drivers-177 (177.80-0ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low . * Add driver 177.80 (LP: #275098): * Added support for the following new GPUs: o GeForce GTX 260 o GeForce GTX 280 o GeForce 9800 GTX+ o GeForce 9800 GT o GeForce 9700M GTS o GeForce 9500 GT o GeForce 8100P o nForce 780a SLI o nForce 750a SLI o Quadro FX 770M o Quadro NVS 160M o Quadro NVS 150M * Improved support for RENDER masks, as well as RENDER repeating modes and transformations, for video memory pixmaps. * Added accelerated support for RENDER convolution filters for video memory pixmaps on GeForce 8, 9 and GTX GPUs. * Improved support for RENDER operations with the same source and destination; this should performance in some situations, e.g. when dragging Plasma applets in KDE4. * Improved GPU video memory management coordination between the NVIDIA X driver and OpenGL implementation; this should improve performance with e.g. the KDE4 OpenGL compositing manager. * Added an 'AllowSHMPixmaps' X configuration option, which can be used to prevent applications from using shared memory pixmaps; the latter may cause some optimizations in the NVIDIA X driver to be disabled. * Fixed a text rendering performance regression that affected GeForce 6 and 7 series GPUs. * Fixed a regression that caused the 'Auto' SLI X option setting to not enable SLI. * Fixed a bug that caused system hangs when using the NV-CONTROL interface to change GPU clock frequencies. * Added support for DisplayPort display devices (including 30-bit devices). * Resolved various stability problems on GeForce 8, 9 and GTX GPUs, as well as some GeForce 6 and 7 PCI-E GPUs. * Fixed a bug that resulted in GPU errors when changing the TwinView display configuration while using Compiz. * Further improved the error recovery paths taken in case of GPU command stream corruption. * Updated mode validation, in cases when no EDID is detected, such that 1024x768 @ 60Hz and 800x600 @ 60Hz are allowed, rather than just 640x480 @ 60Hz. * Removed an old workaround that caused incorrect Xinerama information to be reported after enabling a second TwinView display. * Fixed corruption when using SLI in SFR mode with OpenGL-based composite managers. * Fixed the subpicture component order reported by the NVIDIA X driver's XvMC implementation. * Added a workaround for broken EDIDs provided by some Acer AL1512 monitors. * Fixed a bug that caused GLXBadDrawable errors to be generated when running more than one OpenGL application with anti-aliasing enabled on GeForce 6 and 7 GPUs, e.g. wine. * Fixed a problem that could result in IRQs being disabled on some multi-GPU SMP configurations. * Worked around cache flushing problems (on some Linux kernels) that caused corruption and stability problems. * Added experimental support for PCI-E MSI. * Fixed a bug that resulted in AGP FW/SBA settings and overrides being applied incorrectly when using the Linux kernel's AGP GART driver. * Improved compatibility with recent Linux 2.6 kernels. * Updated the X driver to consider /sys/class/power_supply when determining the AC power state. 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