======== Release 295 Entries ========
* Closed a security vulnerability which made it possible for attackers to
reconfigure GPUs to gain access to arbitrary system memory. For further
details, see: http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3109
* Fixed a bug that caused DisplayPort devices to occasionally fail to turn
back on after the system is resumed from suspend.
* Added a ModeValidation X configuration option token,
"AllowNon3DVisionModes", to allow modes that are not optimized for
NVIDIA 3D Vision to be validated on 3D Vision monitors.
* Added support for the following GPUs:
* GeForce GT 635M
* GeForce 610M
2012-03-22 version 295.33
* Added support for the following GPUs:
* GeForce GTX 680
* GeForce GT 630M
* GeForce GT 620
* Fixed a VDPAU bug where decoding some H.264 streams would cause hardware
errors on lower-end products, resulting in corruption and poor
performance.
* Fixed a bug that caused DisplayPort audio to stop working after monitors
are hotplugged on GeForce GT 520.
* Improved compatibility with recent Linux kernels.
* Fixed a behavior change that prevented ConnectedMonitor from being usable
with DisplayPort connectors.
* Marked the GVO Clone mode NV-CONTROL attributes:
NV_CTRL_GVO_DISPLAY_X_SCREEN
NV_CTRL_GVO_X_SCREEN_PAN_X
NV_CTRL_GVO_X_SCREEN_PAN_Y
as deprecated. They will be removed in a future release. To display
an X screen over GVO, it is recommended to use GVO with MetaModes,
instead.
* Fixed a bug that caused DisplayPort devices to not be listed in
Xorg.*.log. For example, if only DisplayPort devices are attached, the
log file would contain
(--) NVIDIA(0): Connected display device(s) on NVIDIA GPU at PCI:2:0:0
(--) NVIDIA(0): none
* Added support for 3D Vision ready displays that have a NVIDIA 3D Vision
infrared emitter built inside the panel itself.
* Fixed a bug that caused OpenGL applications to crash with some libc
versions, such as eglibc 2.15.
* Fixed a bug that caused HDMI audio to stop working on AppleTV devices when
an X server was started.
2012-02-13 version 295.20
* Fixed a bug that caused black areas to appear on the back faces of
some models in Maya.
* Fixed a bug that resulted in the printing of spurious loader error
messages.
* Fixed a bug that could cause X to crash after hotplugging displays.
* Fixed a bug which caused face selections to be misrendered in
Maya when using the paint selection tool.
* Improved performance for interactive tools in Mudbox.
* Added a "--no-opengl-files" option to nvidia-installer to allow
installation of the driver without OpenGL files that might conflict
with already installed OpenGL implementations.
* Split the DFP configuration page in nvidia-settings into multiple
tabs, allowing the controls to be displayed on smaller screens.
2012-01-31 version 295.17
* Fixed a bug that could cause some OpenGL applications (including
desktop environments like KDE and GNOME Shell) to hang.
* Fixed a bug that prevented the internal panel from working on some
laptops with GeForce 7 series GPUs.
2011-12-27 version 295.09
* Fixed an OpenGL bug where using display lists on Fermi-based GPUs
could result in missing rendering in some cases.
* Fixed an OpenGL bug that caused incorrect rendering when using
framebuffer objects to render to 16-bit color textures with
alpha.
* Added support for the following GPU:
* Tesla X2090
* Fixed two bugs that caused sporadic application crashes in some multi-
threaded OpenGL applications.
* Fixed a bug that caused creating OpenGL 4.2 contexts
with glXCreateContextAttribsARB to fail.
* Fixed a bug that caused OpenGL to print
Xlib: extension "NV-GLX" missing on display ":0".
when used with a non-NVIDIA implementation of the GLX X extension.
* Implemented color depth 30 (10 bits per component) support for GeForce 8
series and higher GPUs.
* Implemented support for constraining cursors to the visible regions of
connected displays; see the "ConstrainCursor" X Option in the README for
details.
======== Release 290 Entries ========
2011-11-21 version 290.10
* Fixed a bug that would cause OpenGL applications to crash when run
with recent releases of glibc such as glibc 2.14.90.
* Improved the performance of FBO bind operations when using Xinerama by
~30% in some cases.
* Fixed a bug that could cause stereo corruption when driving a stereo
display and a non-stereo display from the same GPU.
* Fixed a bug that could cause display devices on a secondary GPU to get
swapped between X screens when restarting the X server.
* Fixed a bug that could result in line flickering in full-scene anti-
aliasing contexts.
* Fixed a bug that caused the physical dimensions of rotated monitors to be
reported incorrectly.
* Add support for the pre-VBO DrawArrays command in the server-side GLX
driver module. The NVIDIA client-side GLX implementation never sends
this command, but the server needs to support it for compatibility with
other GLX client implementations.
* Fixed a regression that caused blank/white windows when exhausting video
memory on GeForce 6 and 7 series GPUs while using composited
desktops.
2011-11-04 version 290.06
* Added support for the following GPU:
* GeForce GTX 460 SE v2
* Fixed a bug that would cause applications which export custom allocation
functions to our driver (such as Adobe Flash in Firefox or Chrome) to crash.
2011-10-21 version 290.03
* Fixed a bug that prevented the driver from loading on some systems with
integrated graphics.
* Fixed issues in VDPAU that prevented allocating and displaying extremely
large VdpOutputSurfaces.
* Added support for limiting heap allocations in the OpenGL driver through
the use of the __GL_HEAP_ALLOC_LIMIT environment variable. See the README
for further details.
* Added an "Accel" option to the X driver to allow disabling its use of the
graphics processing hardware. This is useful when other components, such
as CUDA, require exclusive use of the GPU's processing cores.
* Modified how the OpenGL driver allocates executable memory so it may
continue to function properly if /tmp is mounted noexec. As some fallback
allocation methods may be prohibited under SELinux policy, the driver now
supports detection of this policy as well as manual override of this
detection via the __GL_SELINUX_BOOLEANS environment variable.
* Fixed a bug that caused various GLSL built-in uniforms to not
be updated properly when calling glPopAttrib.
* Improved performance by caching compiled OpenGL shaders to disk. Added a
"GLShaderDiskCache" option to the X driver to enable/disable this
feature. Added the __GL_SHADER_DISK_CACHE and __GL_SHADER_DISK_CACHE_PATH
environment variables for further configuration. See the README for
further details.
* Added GLX protocol support (i.e., for GLX
indirect rendering) for the following OpenGL extension:
GL_NV_copy_image
======== Release 285 Entries ========
* Fixed a bug causing a Linux kernel BUG when retrieving CPU information on
some systems.
* Fixed a bug causing some applications to hang on exit.
* Fixed a bug causing flickering in some GPU/display combinations.
* Fixed a bug that could result in poor OpenGL performance after hotplugging
a monitor.
* Added support for the following GPU:
* GeForce GT 520MX
* Fixed a bug causing possible text corruption when recovering from GPU
errors.
2011-08-17 version 285.03
* Fixed a bug causing corruption of images which are 2047 pixels wide.
* Improved performance of the RENDER extension on Fermi-based GPUs.
* Fixed a bug causing the X server to crash after a VT-switch while running
an OpenGL stereo application which is a member of a swap group.
======== Release 280 Entries ========
2011-08-01 version 280.13
* Fixed a GLX bug that could cause the X server to crash when
rendering a display list using GLX indirect rendering.
* Fixed a GLX bug that could cause a hang in applications that
use X server grabs.
* Fixed an X driver bug that caused 16x8 stipple patterns to
be rendered incorrectly.
2011-07-26 version 280.11
* Fixed a GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap bug that caused corruption
when texturing from sufficiently small pixmaps and, in particular,
corruption in the GNOME Shell Message Tray.
2011-06-29 version 280.04
* Added support for the following GPUs:
* GeForce GTX 570M
* GeForce GTX 580M
* Added unofficial GLX protocol support (i.e., for GLX indirect
rendering) for the following OpenGL extension:
GL_EXT_vertex_attrib_64bit
* Added GLX protocol support (i.e., for GLX
indirect rendering) for the following OpenGL extensions:
GL_ARB_half_float_pixel
GL_EXT_packed_depth_stencil
======== Release 275 Entries ========
* Added support for the following GPU:
* NVS 5200M
* Added support for deleting SDI audio ancillary data packets when a video
frame is dropped on a Quadro SDI Output device. See the
NV_CTRL_GVO_AUDIO_BLANKING attribute in NVCtrl.h for details. This option
can be set via the "GvoAudioBlanking" attribute in nvidia-settings.
* Added support for xserver 1.11.99.901 (also known as 1.12 RC1).
2011-12-14 version 275.43
* Fixed a bug that would cause Firefox to abort on pages with Flash when
layers acceleration was force-enabled on Linux and Solaris.
* Fixed a bug that caused a crash when glDrawArrays was used with a non-VBO
vertex attribute array to draw on a Xinerama screen other than screen 0
using an indirect GLX context.
2011-11-04 version 275.36
* Added support for the following GPU:
* GeForce 510
* Fixed a bug that caused trapezoid and triangle rendering to be very slow
on older GPUs with xorg-server 1.11.
2011-09-07 version 275.28
* Added support for xserver ABI 11 (xorg-server 1.11).
* Fixed a bug that caused the GLSL built-in uniforms gl_FrontMaterial
and gl_BackMaterial to not be updated properly when calling
glMaterial from a display list.
* Fixed an error handling bug that caused the OpenGL driver to
crash while running certain WebGL applications.
* Fixed a bug in VDPAU that caused a glibc assertion when a call to
VdpDeviceCreateX11 failed in certain ways.
2011-07-15 version 275.21
* Restored the release splash screen in the NVIDIA X driver (the beta
splash screen was accidentally reenabled between 275.09.07 and
275.19).
* Fixed a bug that caused nvidia-settings to crash when configuring
multiple X screens after all monitors were unplugged from one of
the X screens.
* Fixed a bug in nvidia-settings that caused the display configuration
page to show extra disabled displays after connecting a new monitor.
* Added X configuration options "3DVisionProHwButtonPairing",
"3DVisionProHwSinglePairingTimeout", "3DVisionProHwMultiPairingTimeout",
and "3DVisionProHwDoubleClickThreshold" to configure hardware button
based pairing in NVIDIA 3D Vision Pro.
See "Appendix B. X Config Options" in the README for more information.
* Fixed a bug that prevented initialization of the NVIDIA 3D Vision or
NVIDIA 3D Vision Pro hub if no EDID was present.
2011-07-15 version 275.19
* Fix memory error and abort reported by glibc when running the application
FieldView from Intelligent Light.
* Fixed an OpenGL driver bug that caused an application crash when running
Altair HyperMesh.
* Fixed a performance problem when switching between stereo and monoscopic
rendering in the application Smoke.
* Fixed poor X driver handling of pixmap out of memory scenarios.
* Fixed an interrupt handling deficiency that could lead to performance and
stability problems when many NVIDIA GPUs shared few IRQs.
* Added support for the following GPUs:
* GeForce GT 540M
* Fixed bugs in the VDPAU presentation queue that could cause GPU errors
and hangs when destroying a presentation queue. This happens when
exiting applications, and also when toggling to and from full-screen
mode in Adobe Flash.
2011-06-14 version 275.09.07
* Fixed a bug that caused desktop corruption in GNOME 3 after a
VT-switch or suspend/resume cycle.
* Added support for the following GPUs:
* GeForce GTX 560
* GeForce GT 545
* GeForce GTX 560M
* GeForce 410M
* GeForce 320M
* GeForce 315M
* Quadro 5010M
* Quadro 3000M
* Quadro 4000M
2011-06-05 version 275.09.04
* Fixed a bug that caused freezes and crashes when resizing windows in
KDE 4 with desktop effects enabled using X.Org X server version 1.10
or later.
* Modified the X driver to request that hardware inform the audio driver
whenever a display is disabled. This will allow the audio driver to
generate the appropriate jack unplug events to applications.
* Added support for the GL_EXT_x11_sync_object extension. See the
extension specification in the OpenGL registry here:
http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/EXT/x11_sync_object.txt
for more details.
* Improved performance of window resize operations in KDE 4 on systems
with slow CPUs.
2011-05-19 version 275.09
* Added support for hardware button based pairing to NVIDIA 3D Vision Pro.
Single click button on the hub to enter into a pairing mode which pairs
one pair of glasses at a time. Double click the same button on the
hub to enter into a pairing mode which pairs multiple pairs of glasses
at a time.
* Added unofficial GLX protocol support (i.e., for GLX indirect
rendering) for the following OpenGL extensions:
GL_NV_framebuffer_multisample_coverage
GL_NV_texture_barrier
* Added GLX protocol support (i.e., for GLX
indirect rendering) for the following OpenGL extension:
GL_NV_register_combiners2
* Fixed a bug that caused the pop-out and external DVI displays to go blank
on Lenovo ThinkPad W701 laptops.
* Fixed a bug that caused corruption on the menus in OpenOffice.org when the
screen is rotated.
* Improved performance of certain memory allocations.
* Fixed a bug that caused Java2D widgets to disappear when Java is
configured to render using FBOs.
* Fixed a bug that caused nvidia-settings to crash while saving the X
configuration file on some Linux distributions.
* Added a new X configuration option "BaseMosaic" which can be used to
extend a single X screen transparently across all of the available
display outputs on each GPU. See "Appendix B. X Config Options" in the
README for more information.
======== Release 270 Entries ========
* Fixed a bug causing incorrect reporting of GPU core and ambient
temperatures via NV-CONTROL.
2011-05-19 version 270.41.19
* Fixed a bug in the VDPAU presentation queue that could cause 1
second hangs when transitioning from blit-based display to overlay-
based display. This would most commonly happen when disabling a
compositing manager.
* Fixed a bug that could cause crashes when capturing SDI video.
* Fixed a corner-case in which the OpenGL driver could leak resources
in applications utilizing fork().
* Addressed a Linux kernel interface compatibility problem that could
lead to ioremap() errors and, potentially, functional and/or
stability problems.
* Fixed a bug that caused SLI initialization to fail on some Intel
based systems.
* Fixed a bug that caused SLI initialization to fail when using recent
Linux kernels, such as 2.6.38.
2011-04-20 version 270.41.06
* Fixed a bug that caused some GPUs to stop responding when the X Server
was started. All GPUs are susceptible, but the failure was primarily
seen on GF104 and GF106 boards.
* Added support for the following GPUs:
* Tesla M2090
* Tesla M2075
* Tesla C2075
* Quadro 7000
2011-04-18 version 270.41.03
* Fixed a bug causing the X server to hang every 49.7 days on 32-bit
platforms.
* Added support for the following GPUs:
* GeForce GT 520
* GeForce GT 525M
* GeForce GT 520M
* GeForce GT 445M
* GeForce GT 530
* GeForce 405
* GeForce GTX 590
* GeForce GTX 550 Ti
* GeForce GT 420
* GeForce GT 440
* GeForce GTX 470M
* GeForce GTX 485M
* GeForce GT 550M
* GeForce GT 555M
* NVS 4200M
* Quadro 1000M
* Quadro 2000M
2011-03-02 version 270.30
* Added support for xserver ABI 10 (xorg-server 1.10).
* Dropped support for xserver ABI 9 (which was only used with xorg-server
1.10 RC2 due to a last-minute xserver change).
2011-02-24 version 270.29
* Added official support for xorg-server 1.10 [RC2 only, see above]. The
-ignoreABI option is no longer required with this version of the server.
2011-02-15 version 270.26
* Added NV-CONTROL event notification for NV_CTRL_FRAMELOCK_SYNC_READY
status changes.
* Added support for the following GPUs:
* GeForce GTX 560 Ti
* Added a new X configuration option "Interactive", which defaults to
enabled, but can be disabled to allow long-running GPU compute programs
to run concurrently with X.
* Fixed a bug in the VDPAU presentation queue that could cause VDPAU
"display preemption" when rendering to tiny or zero-sized windows or
pixmaps.
* Fixed a bug in VDPAU which prevented use of the overlay presentation
queue following an application exiting without gracefully destroying its
VDPAU presentation queue.
* Fixed a bug in VDPAU that prevented the overlay from ever being used if
a presentation queue was created while the target window was redirected
using the Composite extension when the presentation queue was created.
2011-01-21 version 270.18
* Added preliminary support for xserver 1.10.
* Reorganized the NVIDIA driver's /proc file system layout to better
reflect current needs: /proc/driver/nvidia/cards/0..N has been
moved to /proc/driver/nvidia/gpus/0..N/information
* Added new shared library: libnvidia-ml.so.
NVML provides programmatic access to static information and monitoring
data for NVIDIA GPUs, as well as limited managment capabilities. It is
intended for use with Tesla compute products.
See web-based documentation and associated nvml.h header for more info.
* Added a new X configuration option "3DVisionDisplayType" to specify
the display type when NVIDIA 3D Vision is enabled with a non
3D Vision ready display.
* Fixed several bugs relating to hardware-accelerated gradients, which were
causing visual corruption in some of the default Ubuntu GNOME themes.
* Added unofficial GLX protocol support (i.e., for GLX indirect
rendering) for the following OpenGL extensions:
GL_ARB_shader_subroutine
GL_ARB_map_buffer_range
* Added GLX protocol support (i.e., for GLX
indirect rendering) for the following OpenGL extensions:
GL_NV_half_float
GL_NV_occlusion_query
GL_EXT_blend_equation_separate
GL_EXT_depth_bounds_test
======== Release 265 Entries ========
* Modified colormap updates to no longer be synchronized to vblank. This
allows applications to send XStoreColor and XStoreColors requests faster
than the screen's refresh rate.
This behavior can be controlled by a new NV-CONTROL attribute,
NV_CONTROL_SYNC_LUT_UPDATES. By default, LUT updates are not
synchronized. This may cause flickering in some applications that use the
colormap to perform animation, such as xpilot running on a depth 8 X
screen. If you experience flickering, try running
nvidia-settings -a [gpu:0]/SynchronousPaletteUpdates=1
======== Release 260 Entries ========
* Updated the NVIDIA X driver to not update mode timings for G-Sync
compatibility when NVIDIA 3D Vision or NVIDIA 3D VisionPro is
enabled along with a G-Sync device.
* Added support for the following GPUs:
* Quadro 2000 D
* Quadro 400
2011-01-21 version 260.19.36
* Updated the NVIDIA kernel module to ensure that all system memory
allocated by it for use with GPUs or within user-space components of the
NVIDIA driver stack is initialized to zero. A new NVIDIA kernel module
option, InitializeSystemMemoryAllocations, allows administrators to
revert to the previous behavior.
* Fixed a bug that caused X servers version 1.9 and higher to crash when
color index overlays were enabled.
* Fixed a bug that caused pixel value 255 to be treated as transparent in
color index overlays.
2010-12-13 version 260.19.29
* Added support for the following GPUs:
* GeForce GTX 460 SE
* GeForce GTX 570
* Quadro 5000M
* NVS 300
* Fixed a bug that caused some OpenGL applications to become
unresponsive for up to a minute on some GPUs when changing
the resolution or refresh rate.
* Added support for NVIDIA 3D Vision Pro.
See the "Stereo" X configuration documentation in the README
for further details.
* Added a new X configuration option "3DVisionProConfigFile"
to allow user provide a filename which NVIDIA X driver uses
to store 3D Vision Pro configuration settings.
See "Appendix B. X Config Options" in the README for
more information.
2010-11-11 version 260.19.21
* Fixed a race condition in OpenGL that could cause crashes with
multithreaded applications.
* Fixed a bug that may cause OpenGL applications which fork to crash.
* Fixed a bug in VDPAU that caused it to attempt allocation of huge
blocks of system memory. This regression was introduced in the
260.* driver series.
2010-10-13 version 260.19.12
* Added support for the following GPUs:
* GeForce GTS 450
* GeForce GTX 460M
* GeForce GT 415M
* GeForce GT 425M
* GeForce GT 420M
* GeForce GT 435M
* Quadro 2000
* Quadro 600
* Temporarily added back OpenGL header files to the Linux driver
package, though these are not installed by default. To have these
OpenGL header files installed, pass "--opengl-headers" to the NVIDIA
.run file. These will be removed from future NVIDIA driver packages
once http://www.opengl.org/registry/ provides gl.h and glx.h.
* Fixed the CustomEDID X configuration option so that it can handle
EDID files from Linux procfs; e.g., /proc/acpi/video/IGPU/LCD0/EDID.
2010-09-15 version 260.19.06
* Fixed an interaction problem with a change in X server behavior that
caused slow text rendering on X.Org xserver 1.9.
* Enhanced VDPAU to support interop with CUDA and OpenGL when Xinerama
is active.
* Fixed a bug in VDPAU that prevented temporal-spatial de-interlacing from
operating when temporal de-interlacing was not also enabled.
* Added support for configuring the dithering depth used when driving
a flat panel with a GeForce 8 family or Quadro 4600/5600 or
newer GPU. See the "Dithering Controls" in the Flat Panel page
in nvidia-settings.
2010-09-08 version 260.19.04
* Added support for the nvcuvid API.
nvcuvid provides a mechanism for decoding video and exposing the
surfaces to CUDA, allowing applications to perform custom processing of
the video. nvcuvid is primarily targeted at transcoding and video-
processing applications. nvcuvid was already available on other
platforms.
By default, nvidia-installer places the nvcuvid library in
/usr/lib/libnvcuvid.so, or in the appropriate library path for
your system. The nvcuvid header files can be retrieved from the
CUDA toolkit package.
* Stopped packaging and installing OpenGL, VDPAU, CUDA, and OpenCL
header files with the driver. Those interested in these files can
get them from their Linux distributions' packages, where available,
or upstream from:
OpenGL header files (gl.h, glext.h glx.h, glxext.h):
http://www.opengl.org/registry/
VDPAU header files (vdpau.h and vdpau_x11.h):
http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/VDPAU
CUDA and OpenCL header files (cuda.h, cudaGL.h, cudaVDPAU.h,
cl.h, cl_gl.h, cl_platform.h):
http://developer.nvidia.com/object/gpucomputing.html
Note that while libvdpau.so is still included in 260.xx drivers,
it will be removed from a future release series in early 2011.
Distributors are encouraged to package libvdpau.so from
http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/VDPAU
* Fixed a bug in VDPAU that could cause a "display preemption" when
toggling MPlayer to full-screen the first time.
* Added OpenGL 4.1 support for Quadro Fermi, GeForce GTX 4xx, and
later GPUs.
* Enhanced VDPAU to fully support Xinerama.
* Fixed a bug in the X driver that prevented operation of Xinerama when
using multiple NVIDIA GPUs from different major hardware generations
on X with ABI 4 or greater.
* Fixed a bug in the OpenGL driver's Xinerama support.
Rendering should have ocurred to all physical X screens driven by an
NVIDIA GPU compatible with the NVIDIA GPU driving physical X screen 0.
However, if some physical X screen did not satisfy that requirement,
then not only would that physical X screen not be rendered to (as
expected), but also all physical X screens with a higher number would
not be rendered to (which was unexpected).
* Added GPU "Processor Clock" reporting to the nvidia-settings PowerMizer
page.
* Implemented support for SLI Mosaic Mode on Quadro FX 5800 and
Quadro Fermi and newer Quadro GPUs.
* Enhanced the VDPAU overlay-based presentation queue to allow it to be
used when SLI is active, and in some cases when the X composite
extension is enabled. See the README for further details.
* Added support for configuring the dithering mode used when driving
a flat panel with a GeForce 8 family or Quadro 4600/5600 or
newer GPU. See the "Dithering Controls" in the Flat Panel page
in nvidia-settings.
* Added unofficial GLX protocol support (i.e., for GLX indirect
rendering) for the following OpenGL extensions:
GL_EXT_texture_integer
GL_ARB_stencil_two_side
GL_EXT_transform_feedback2
GL_NV_transform_feedback2
GL_NV_conditional_render
* Added GLX protocol support (i.e., for GLX indirect rendering)
for the following OpenGL extensions:
GL_NV_point_sprite
GL_EXT_stencil_two_side
GL_EXT_point_parameters
GL_ARB_transpose_matrix
GL_EXT_framebuffer_blit
GL_EXT_framebuffer_multisample
* GLX protocol for the following OpenGL extension is promoted
from unofficial GLX ptotocol to ARB approved GLX protocol:
GL_EXT_geometry_shader4
GL_ARB_shader_objects
GL_ARB_vertex_shader
GL_ARB_fragment_shader
* Added support for configuring individual displays as any eye in passive
stereo mode "4" when using TwinView or SLI Mosaic through extensions to
the MetaMode syntax.
* Added ColorSpace and ColorRange features for HDMI. These give
the ability to output YUV over HDMI and select full/reduced
color range on RGB over HDMI. ColorSpace and ColorRange
are X Configuration options and can be changed dynamically
through nvidia-settings.
======== Release 256 Entries ========
* Fixed a bug that prevented XvMC from initializing in most cases.
* Added support for xorg-server video driver ABI version 8, which will be
included in the upcoming xorg-server-1.9 series of releases.
* Fixed a bug that caused extremely slow rendering of OpenGL applications
on X screens other than screen 0 when using a compositing manager.
* Fixed a regression introduced after 256.35 that caused stability
problems on GPUs such as GeForce GT 240.
* Fixed a slow kernel virtual address space leak observed when
starting and stopping OpenGL, CUDA, or VDPAU applications.
* Fixed a bug that left the system susceptible to hangs when running
two or more VDPAU applications simultaneously.
2010-07-29 version 256.44
* Added Support for Quadro 4000, Quadro 5000, and Quadro 6000.
* Updated nvidia-installer to detect the nouveau kernel module and
fail with an appropriate error message.
* Added information to the NVIDIA driver README on how to disable
the nouveau driver.
* Fixed VDPAU to not print a debug error message when calling
VdpVideoMixerQueryFeatureSupport with an unsupported or unknown
VdpVideoMixerFeature.
* Removed the requirement that in TwinView passive stereo, MetaModes
must have identical viewports on each monitor.
* Removed the requirement that in active stereo, all monitors must
use identical modetimings.
* Enhanced VDPAU to better report certain kinds of initialization error.
* Fixed a regression that caused Xv to return BadAlloc errors on AGP
systems when using the AGP GART driver contained in the NVIDIA driver.
This fixes the problem reported in nvnews.net thread 151199.
2010-06-22 version 256.35
* Fixed a regression in 256.29 where Performance Level clock
frequencies were reported incorrectly in nvidia-settings.
* Fixed a 3D Vision Stereo bug that caused the stereo glasses to not
toggle when the flat panel was not running at its native mode timings.
* Fixed a bug that caused nvidia-settings to crash when rendering
its thermal gauge widget if the range of valid values for the thermal
sensor was empty.
2010-05-28 version 256.29
* Fixed a bug which prevented use of high performance PowerMizer
levels on systems with certain ACPI configurations.
* Fixed a bug that caused non-primary Fermi GPUs to fail to initialize
framebuffer memory. This caused a variety of symptoms, up to and
including system hangs.
2010-05-21 version 256.25
* Added unofficial GLX protocol support (i.e., for GLX indirect
rendering) for the following OpenGL extensions:
GL_ARB_blend_func_extended
GL_ARB_draw_buffers_blend
GL_ARB_sample_shading
GL_ARB_timer_query
GL_EXT_draw_buffers2
GL_EXT_separate_shader_objects
GL_NV_explicit_multisample
GL_NV_transform_feedback
* Improved Thermal Settings reporting in nvidia-settings to
accurately reflect hardware configurations with multiple thermal
sensors.
* Fixed an interaction problem between Compiz and
'screen-scraping' VNC servers like x11vnc and vino that caused the screen
to stop updating.
Fixes Launchpad bug #353126.
* Enhanced VDPAU to add basic support for Xinerama. VDPAU will now
operate on a single physical X screen under Xinerama. See the
README for more details.
* Enhanced VDPAU's handling of corrupt clips of all formats on GPUs with
VDPAU feature set C to be at least as good as on GPUs with VDPAU
feature set B. This significantly improves various clips provided by
nvnews.net user eamiller.
* Fixed a bug in Xv attribute handling that caused hue, saturation,
brightness, and contrast values to be misapplied when using an
Xv overlay adaptor.
* Fixed a bug in the XvMC driver that prevented it from working on
systems with AGP graphics cards.
* Enhanced VDPAU to clear all VdpVideoSurfaces to black when allocated.
This provides more consistent results when using a surface as a
reference when no prior decode operation has written to that surface.
In turn, this improves the results of decoding some corrupt streams,
such as "p_only_no_play" from ffmpeg bug 1124.
* Implemented new APIs to allow sharing VDPAU surfaces with OpenGL and
CUDA. The OpenGL extension is GL_NV_vdpau_interop. For CUDA, please
see the documentation in the CUDA toolkit for details.
* Worked around a bug where the combination of a GPU with VDPAU feature
set A together with specific motherboard chipsets could cause visible
corruption when decoding some MPEG-2 streams
* Fixed a bug that prevented the VDPAU overlay-based presentation queue
from being used more than a few hundred times per X server invocation.
* Renamed the driver file libGLcore.so.VERSION to
libnvidia-glcore.so.VERSION, as a small step towards reducing the
filename collisions between NVIDIA's and Mesa's OpenGL implementations.
This driver file is used by NVIDIA's libGL.so and libglx.so, and
should never be used directly by applications.
* Changed the SONAME of libnvidia-glcore.so.VERSION,
libnvidia-tls.so.VERSION, and libnvidia-compiler.so.VERSION to be
".so.VERSION", rather than ".so.1". These driver files are only used
by other NVIDIA driver components, and are only intended to be used
by components of the matching NVIDIA driver version.
* Removed the "-pkg#" suffix from the NVIDIA Linux .run files.
The packages are now simply named "NVIDIA-Linux-ARCH-VERSION.run". On
Linux-x86_64, a package which omits the 32-bit compatibility libraries
is also available: "NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-VERSION-no-compat32.run"
* Simplified the directory structure of the Linux extracted package;
most driver files are now just contained within the top level directory
of the package. Pass the '--list' option to the .run file for details.
* Removed precompiled kernel interfaces from the NVIDIA Linux-x86 .run
file; these were ancient and had not been updated in years. Going
forward, NVIDIA does not plan to provide precompiled kernel interfaces
with the Linux .run files. However, nvidia-installer and the .run
file will retain the ability for users to add their own precompiled
kernel interfaces via the '--add-this-kernel' .run file option.
* Compressed the nvidia-settings, nvidia-installer, and nvidia-xconfig
tarballs with bzip2, rather than gzip.
======== Release 195 Entries ========
* Fixed a problem with SLI SFR, AFR, and SLIAA modes with GeForce GTX 480
and GeForce GTX 470 and high-resolution display modes.
2010-04-28 version 195.36.24
* Added support for the following GPUs:
* GeForce GTX 480
* GeForce GTX 470
* Tesla C2050
* Fixed a problem that caused occasional red flashes in XVideo frames.
* Added official support for xserver 1.8. The -ignoreABI option
is no longer required with this version of the server.
* Updated the "Supported NVIDIA GPU Products" list to include various
supported GPUs that were missing previously.
2010-03-15 version 195.36.15
* Fixed a regression that caused the driver to fail to properly adjust
the GPU fan speed on some GPUs.
* Fixed a bug that prevented performance level transitions on recent
GPUs with SDDR3 and GDDR5 memory.
* Fixed a bug that caused the X server to crash when rendering
occurred while the X server was not on the active VT.
2010-03-03 version 195.36.08
* Added support for the following GPUs:
* Quadro FX 880M
* GeForce GTS 350M
* GeForce GTS 360M
* Fixed a bug that caused screen corruption after an application
released a GLX_NV_present_video device.
* Fixed an X server crash caused by starting nvidia-settings while X was not
on the active VT.
* Fixed brightness control hotkeys on some laptops.
* Fixed an nvidia-settings bug that produced many "Bad argument" warning
messages when running nvidia-settings --query all.
* Fixed an installer bug that produced the following message:
WARNING: Unable to perform the runtime configuration check for library
'libGL.so.1' ('/usr/lib/libGL.so.195.36.03'); assuming successful
installation.
* Fixed a bug that caused G-Sync stereo synchronization to fail sometimes
when enabling frame lock.
* Fixed a bug that caused OpenGL applications to occasionally crash with
"double free or corruption" messages when exiting.
* On GPUs with VDPAU feature set A, enhanced VDPAU's handling of some
corrupted or incorrectly formatted MPEG-1/2 streams. This solves a
reported issue with "0testbad.mpg".
* Fixed a bug in the VDPAU video mixer that caused chroma aberrations,
and corruption in the right-hand few columns of pixels, when post-
processing video surfaces with widths not an exact multiple of 4 pixels.
* Fixed a bug that prevented the GPUFanControlState attribute from
being set on the nvidia-settings command line.
2010-02-03 version 195.36.03
* Fixed a regression that made the "TVStandard" X configuration option
cause system hangs with products from the GeForce 6 and 7 series.
* Worked around a bug in some AUO laptop flat panels where the native mode
in the EDID is invalid, leading to a 640x480 desktop repeated six times
across the screen.
* Increased the maximum number of slices supported by VDPAU for MPEG-2
streams, in order to cope with the region 1 DVD "A Christmas Story".
* Added unofficial preliminary support for xorg-server video driver ABI
version 7, including xorg-server-1.7.99.2.
* Fix the soname of libvdpau_nvidia.so.1 and libvdpau_trace.so.1 to
match their filenames.
2009-12-22 version 195.30
* Fixed a performance regression with non-antialiased text in KDE4.
* Enabled GPU acceleration for many RENDER compositing operations that were
previously processed in software, including conjoint and disjoint blending
modes and component alpha blending.
* Added experimental GPU acceleration of the RENDER CompositeTrapezoids
operation. This can be enabled at runtime by running:
nvidia-settings -a AccelerateTrapezoids=1
This is only supported on the GeForce GTX series or newer products.
* Fixed a bug in the VDPAU overlay-based presentation queue that caused
high CPU usage during "put bits" operations when more than two surfaces
were queued.
* Updated `nvidia-settings --query all` to report all available
attributes queryable through all NV-CONTROL target types.
2009-11-23 version 195.22
* Enhanced the VDPAU blit-based presentation queue to provide values of
"first_presentation_time" that have less jitter.
* Add support for R16F and RG32F GLXFBConfigs when using GeForce 8
series and higher GPUs.
* Added support for NVIDIA 3D Vision Stereo on Linux with Quadro
GPUs. See the "Stereo" X configuration documentation in the README
for details.
* Added support for A2BGR10 32-bit GLX visuals on 30-bit X screens.
These allow some level of window transparency when using 30-bit
visuals with GLX and Composite, but they may cause problems with
older X servers and/or applications. ARGB GLX visuals can be
disabled by adding:
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "False"
to the X configuration file.
* Fixed a problem that caused DisplayPort devices to behave incorrectly when
DPMS power saving mode was triggered.
* Updated VDPAU to improve thread concurrency. See the README for
details.
* Altered NVIDIA X driver behavior in the case that no display
devices are connected to the GPU. Previously, in this case,
the NVIDIA X driver would pretend a CRT was connected to the GPU.
Now, the NVIDIA X driver will not automatically pretend that
any CRTs are connected. If the X driver does not detect any
connected display devices, the X server will fail to start.
To restore the old behavior, use the ConnectedMonitor X
configuration option; e.g.,
Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT"
Alternatively, if display is not desired, Quadro and Tesla GPU
users can enable "NoScanout" mode, which bypasses any mode timing
validation or use of display devices; this is configured with:
Option "UseDisplayDevice" "none"
* Disabled software cursors when the driver is operating in "no scanout"
(UseDisplayDevice "none") mode. The software cursor image is not visible
in remote desktop applications or screenshots anyway, so having software
cursor enabled was unnecessary.
* Changed glXSwapBuffers() behavior for a pixmap such that it is now a no-op
in the direct rendering case in order to match the indirect case and
comply with the GLX spec. Previously, calling glXSwapBuffers() on pixmaps
in the direct case would swap the pixmap's buffers if the pixmap was
double buffered.
* Modified the installation location and names of internal VDPAU libraries
to conform to conventions and Debian packaging guidelines. New versions
of libvdpau expect this layout. Compatibility with old versions of
libvdpau is maintained with symlinks.
* Fixed a bug that could cause errors in graphical applications run after a
previous application using VDPAU and OpenGL. This behaviour was observed
when running Gwenole Beauchesne's hwdecode-demos application.
* Modified vdpau.h to increment VDPAU_VERSION, to reflect the fact that
new features have been added in the past. Also, add the new define
VDPAU_INTERFACE_VERSION.
* Fixed a periodic temporary hang in the VDPAU blit-based presentation
queue.
* Fixed a problem that caused resolution limitations or corruption on
certain DisplayPort devices such as the Apple 24" Cinema display or some
DisplayPort to VGA adapters.
* Disabled the UseEvents option for GeForce 8 series and higher GPUs due to
a problem that causes occasional short hangs. It will be re-enabled when
that bug has been tracked down and fixed.
* VDPAU now allows multiple streams to be decoded at once, without the
need to set any environment variables.
======== Older Releases ========
2009-10-21 version 190.42
* Fixed a bug in the nvidia-settings disclaimer window for the GPU
Clock Frequencies Coolbits page, such that the "Accept" button is
selectable when the desktop is so tall that the entire disclaimer
can be viewed without scrolling.
* Fixed a recent regression that caused the Xinerama option to not be set
properly in the X configuration file when saving and merging from the
nvidia-settings X Server Display Configuration page.
* Fixed a resource leak in VDPAU's blit-based presentation queue.
This bug limited the number of presentation queue objects that could be
created and destroyed in a single application instance, and hence could
limit the number of streams that could be displayed and/or the number
of iterations of "loop" playback.
* Fixed a power management regression that prevented some notebooks
and systems with integrated GeForce 8 and 9 series GPUs from
suspending.
* Fixed a regression that caused TV-OUT controls to be unavailable on
some GeForce 6 and 7 series GPUs.
2009-10-16 version 190.40
* Added support for OpenGL 3.2.
* Added support for NVIDIA Quadro SDI Capture, part of the Quadro
Digital Video Pipeline.
* Added support for the following GPUs:
GeForce G102M
GeForce GT 220
GeForce G210
GeForce G210M
GeForce GT 230M
GeForce GT 240M
GeForce GTS 250M
GeForce GTS 260M
* Updated the NVIDIA X driver to allow, on GeForce 8 or greater GPUs,
more modes to validate on digital display devices whose EDIDs
report very constrained HorizSync or VertRefresh ranges.
* Fixed a randomly occurring X server crash caused by the PixmapCache
option.
* Increased the allowed amount of overscan compensation from 100 to 200.
* On GPUs with VDPAU feature set B, VDPAU's handling of some corrupted
or incorrectly formatted H.264 and MPEG streams has been improved.
* Fixed a memory allocation problem with pre-GeForce 8
GPUs that caused GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap clients (e.g., Compiz,
KDE 4) to display incorrect contents.
2009-09-24 version 190.36
* Added support for X.Org xserver 1.6.99.901 (also known as 1.7.0 RC1).
* Add a new OverscanCompensation NV-CONTROL attribute, available on GeForce
8 and higher. This option specifies the amount of overscan compensation
to apply to the current mode. It is measured in raster pixels, i.e.
pixels as specified in the current mode's backend timings.
* Updated nvidia-installer to detect newer Debian distributions that use
/usr/lib32 instead of /emul/ia32-linux as the 32-bit library path.
* Added GLX support for OpenGL 3.2 context profiles through the extension
GLX_ARB_create_context_profile.
2009-09-04 version 190.32
* Added support for IgnoreEDIDChecksum X configuration option, which can be
used to force the X driver to accept the EDID of a display device even
when the checksum is invalid. Please see the README IgnoreEDIDChecksum
description for a caution and details of use.
* Added support for configuring the GPU's fan speed; see the
"Coolbits" X configuration option in the README.
* Fixed a bug in VDPAU that could cause visible corruption near the bottom
edge of the picture when decoding VC-1 simple/main profile clips whose
heights are not exact multiples of 16 pixels, on GPUs with VDPAU feature
set A.
* On GPUs with VDPAU feature set C, VDPAU now supports decoding MPEG-4
Part 2, DivX 4, and DivX 5 video. The VDPAU API has been enhanced to
expose this feature.
* On GPUs with VDPAU feature set C, VDPAU now supports a higher quality
video scaling algorithm. The VDPAU API has been enhanced to expose this
feature.
2009-08-21 version 190.25
* Added code to reject screen modes based on available DisplayPort link
bandwidth. Fixes display corruption caused by allowing high bandwidth
modes on display devices that can't handle them, such as certain
DisplayPort-to-VGA adapters that only support 2 DisplayPort lanes.
* Fixed an initialization problem on some mobile GPUs.
* Worked around X.Org X server Bugzilla bug #22804. This bug
allows X clients to send invalid XGetImage requests to the
hardware, leading to screen corruption or hangs. This was most
commonly triggered by running JDownloader in KDE 4.
* Fixed a crash in nvidia-settings displaying GPU information when in Xinerama.
2009-07-23 version 190.18
* Added GLX protocol support (i.e., for GLX indirect rendering)
for the following OpenGL extensions:
GL_ARB_draw_buffers
GL_EXT_Cg_shader
GL_EXT_gpu_program_parameters
GL_NV_fragment_program
GL_NV_gpu_program4
GL_NV_register_combiners
GL_NV_vertex_program1_1
GL_NV_vertex_program2
* Added unofficial GLX protocol support (i.e., for GLX indirect
rendering) for the following OpenGL extensions:
GL_ARB_geometry_shader4
GL_ARB_shader_objects
GL_ARB_texture_buffer_object
GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object
GL_ARB_vertex_shader
GL_EXT_bindable_uniform
GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array
GL_EXT_geometry_shader4
GL_EXT_gpu_shader4
GL_EXT_texture_buffer_object
GL_NV_geometry_program4
GL_NV_vertex_program
GL_NV_parameter_buffer_object
GL_NV_vertex_program4
GLX protocol for GL_EXT_vertex_array was also updated to incorporate
rendering using GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object.
Use of these extensions with GLX indirect rendering requires
the AllowUnofficialGLXProtocol X configuration option and the
__GL_ALLOW_UNOFFICIAL_PROTOCOL environment variable.
* Fixed glXQueryVersion to report GLX version 1.4. NVIDIA's GLX
version has been 1.4 for several releases, and was already reported
as 1.4 in the GLX client and GLX server version strings.
* Fixed a problem that caused window border corruption when the screen is
rotated.
* Added support for configuring the GPU PowerMizer Mode on
GeForce 8 or later GPUs with multiple performance levels via
nvidia-settings and NV-CONTROL.
2009-08-21 version 185.18.36
* Fixed a bug that caused kernel panics when starting X on some
mobile GPUs.
* Fixed an interaction problem between VDPAU and PowerMizer when using
VDPAU solely as a display mechanism, and not to decode video streams.
The GPU performance level should now be raised, if required, in this
scenario.
* Fixed VDPAU to avoid "display preemption" in some cases where a
VdpOutputSurface is deleted while it is still active (either queued or
visible) in a VdpPresentationQueue. In particular, this can occur in
MPlayer when using the "-fs" option, and could completely prevent
VDPAU from operating successfully, depending on the exact timing
conditions.
2009-07-31 version 185.18.31
* Fixed a crash on certain mobile GPUs.
2009-07-28 version 185.18.29
* Fixed a bug that could cause occasional memory corruption problems or
segmentation faults when running OpenGL applications on Quadro GPUs.
* Fixed a deadlock in the OpenGL library that could be triggered in certain
rare circumstances on Quadro GPUs.
* Fixed the order of outputs in the GPUScaling nvidia-settings property.
* Fixed a bug that caused graphics corruption in some OpenGL applications
when the Unified Back Buffer is enabled the application window is moved.
* Fixed a bug that caused glXGetVideoSyncSGI, glXWaitVideoSyncSGI, and
glXGetRefreshRateSGI to operate on the wrong screen when there are
multiple X screens.
* Fixed a bug that causes corruption or GPU errors when an application
paints a redirected window whose background is set to ParentRelative on
X.Org servers older than 1.5.
This was typically triggered by running Kopete while using Compiz or
Beryl.
* Fixed a bug in VDPAU that could cause visible corruption when decoding
H.264 clips with alternating frame/field coded reference pictures, and
a video surface is concurrently removed from the DPB, and re-used as
the decode target, in a single decode operation. This affected all GPUs
supported by VDPAU.
* Fixed a bug in VDPAU that could cause visible corruption near the bottom
edge of the picture when decoding VC-1 advanced profile clips whose
heights are not exact multiples of 16 pixels, on G98 and MCP7x (IGP)
GPUs.
* Enhanced VDPAU to better handle corrupt/invalid H.264 bitstreams on
G84, G86, G92, G94, G96, or GT200 GPUs. This should prevent most cases
of "display preemption" that are caused by bitstream errors.
* Fixed an X server crash when using the VDPAU overlay-based presentation
queue and VT-switching away from the X server.
* Enhanced VDPAU's detection of the GPU's video decode capabilities.
* Fixed a bug in VDPAU that could cause ghosting/flashing issues when
decoding H.264 clips, in certain full DPB scenarios, on G98 and MCP7x.
* Fixed VDPAU to detect an attempt to destroy the VdpDevice object when
other device-owned objects still exist. VDPAU now triggers "display
preemption", and returns an error, when this occurs.
* Enhanced VDPAU's error handling and resource management in presentation
queue creation and operation. This change correctly propagates all
errors back to the client application, and avoids some resource leaks.
Linux specific changes:
* Added code to forcibly terminate long-running CUDA kernels when
Ctrl-C is pressed.
* Fixed an interaction problem between PowerMizer and CUDA applications that
caused the performance level to be reduced while the CUDA kernel is
running.
* Made CUDA compute-exclusive mode persistent across GPU resets.
FreeBSD specific changes:
* Fixed an installer problem that prevented Linux ABI compatibility from
working with newer versions of FreeBSD.
2009-05-27 version 185.18.14
* Fixed a Xinerama drawable resource management problem that can cause
GLXBadDrawable errors in certain cases, such as when Wine applications are
run.
* Fixed XineramaQueryScreens to return 0 screens instead of 1 screen with
the geometry of screen 0 when XineramaIsActive returns false. This
conforms to the Xinerama manual page and fixes an interaction problem with
Compiz when there is more than one X screen.
* Add support for the UseEvents X configuration option on GeForce 8 and
higher GPUs.
* Moved kernel module loading earlier in the X driver's initialization,
to facilitate more graceful fallbacks if the kernel module cannot
be loaded. Removed the LoadKernelModule X configuration option.
* Added support for new horizontal interlaced and checkerboard passive
stereo modes.
* Fixed an OpenGL driver crash while running Bibble 5.
* Fixed a DisplayPort interaction problem with power management
suspend/resume events.
* Fixed occasional X driver memory management performance problems
when a composite manager is running.
* Fixed a bug with VT-switching or mode-switching while using Compiz;
the bug could lead to a corrupted desktop (e.g., a white screen)
or in the worst case an X server crash.
* Fixed a bug that could cause GPU errors in some cases while driving
Quadro SDI products.
* Fixed a several second hang when VT-switching while OpenGL stereo
applications were running on pre-G80 Quadro GPUs.
* Added support for multiple swap group members on G80 and later
Quadro GPUs.
* Fixed the behavior of the NV_CTRL_FRAMELOCK_SYNC_DELAY NV-CONTROL
attribute on Quadro G-Sync II.
* Fixed a problem with Quadro SDI where transitioning from "clone
mode" to "OpenGL mode" would fail.
* Fixed VDPAU to eliminate some cases of corruption when decoding H.264
video containing field-coded reference frames on G84, G86, G92, G94,
G96, or GT200 GPUs. Such streams are commonly found in DVB broadcasts.
* Slightly improved the performance of the VDPAU noise reduction
algorithm.
* Enhanced VDPAU to validate whether overlay usage is supported by the
current hardware configuration, and to automatically fall back to the
blit-based presentation queue if required.
* Fixed error checking in VdpVideoMixerRender, to reject calls that
specify more layers than the VdpMixer was created with.
* Modified VDPAU's VDPAU_DEBUG code to emit a complete backtrace on all
platforms, not just on 32-bit Linux.
* Improved interaction between VDPAU and PowerMizer; appropriate
performance levels should now be chosen for video playback of all
standard resolutions on all supported GPUs.
* Fixed a bug in VDPAU that sometimes caused "display preemption" when the
VdpDecoderCreate function failed.
* Fixed a potential segfault in the VDPAU trace library, triggered by
a multi-threaded application creating a new VdpDevice in one thread,
at the same time that another thread detected "display preemption".
Linux specific changes:
* Improved compatibility with recent Linux kernels.
FreeBSD specific changes:
* Modified VDPAU to dlopen libpthread.so (on all platforms), to avoid
conflicts between the current libc and a compat libpthread.
2009-04-06 version 185.19
* Added support for the following new GPUs:
Quadro FX 3800
Quadro FX 1800
Quadro FX 380
Quadro FX 580
GeForce GTS 250
GeForce GT 140
GeForce GT 130
GeForce 9600 GSO 512
* Fixed SDI presentation time queries returning unexpected values.
* Removed the 'AllowDFPStereo' X config file option, which is now enabled by
default.
* Fixed a bug that caused certain programs to hang when multiple threads
call functions in libdl at the same time.
* Fixed a driver crash when OpenGL applications use an extremely large
number of textures.
* Fixed GPU errors triggered by text rendering to PseudoColor windows with
the glyph cache enabled.
* Updated the X driver to allow pixmaps smaller than 32x32 pixels to be
placed in video memory.
* Fixed a problem that prevented the driver from retraining a DisplayPort
link after a device was hotplugged.
* Updated nvidia-bug-report.sh to automatically gzip the resulting log file.
* Fixed VDPAU to eliminate some cases of GPU hangs when decoding H.264
video on G84, G86, G92, G94, G96, or GT200 GPUs, and supplying a DPB
missing some reference frames.
* The VDPAU presentation queue now syncs to VBLANK in the blit
path. The environment variable VDPAU_NVIDIA_SYNC_DISPLAY_DEVICE
selects which display to sync to when TwinView is enabled;
see the README for details.
* On systems using integrated graphics, VDPAU now uses system RAM
instead of video RAM for many purposes. This should prevent "out
of resources" problems in most cases, even when the video RAM
carve-out is configured as low as 128M.
* Added support for Quad-Buffered Stereo in the main plane
simultaneously with the Color Index Overlay; i.e., both Stereo
GLX FBConfigs and Color Index Overlay FBConfigs can be advertised
and used at the same time, though no single GLX FBConfig contains
both Stereo and Overlay capabilities.
2009-03-12 version 185.13
* Numerous internal cleanups and improvements to OpenGL. In particular,
GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap binding performance problems were resolved.
2009-04-21 version 180.51
* Added support for the following GPUs:
GeForce 9600 GSO 512
GeForce 9400 GT
GeForce GTS 250
GeForce GT 130
GeForce GT 140
* Fixed stability problems with some GeForce 6200/7200/7300 GPUs
on multi-core/SMP systems.
* Updated nvidia-bug-report.sh to compress its log file; running
`nvidia-bug-report.sh` now produces "nvidia-bug-report.log.gz".
* Addressed a problem that could lead to intermittent hangs
and system crashes on some GeForce 9 and later GPUs.
* Fixed an X server crash when viewing the website www.tim.it.
* Fixed a DisplayPort interaction problem with power management
suspend/resume events.
* Fixed rendering corruption in the OpenGL 16-bit RGB Workstation
Overlay.
* Fixed a recent VDPAU regression that caused aborted playback
and hangs when decoding some H.264 clips on G84, G86, G92, G94,
G96, and GT200 GPUs.
* Fixed an interaction problem that could corrupt the EDID of the
Fujitsu Technology Solutions Celsius H270 notebook's internal
flatpanel.
* Fixed occasional X driver memory management performance problems
when a composite manager is running.
* Fixed a bug that could interfere with the detection of display
devices attached to secondary GPUs when first starting X
after cold boots.
* Fixed a problem that could result in temporary stalls when
moving OpenGL application windows on GeForce 8 and
later GPUs.
* Fixed a bug that prevented VGA fonts from being saved/restored
correctly on GeForce 8 and later GPUs.
Linux specific changes:
* Improved compatibility with recent Linux kernels.
* Reduced CPU usage of nvidia-smi utility for reporting Quadro Plex
information.
* Fixed compatibility problem with LandMark GeoProbe.
Solaris specific changes:
* Fixed Solaris installer to not install libnvidia-wfb.so when a wfb
library is already present.
* Fixed an initialization ordering bug that could lead to
kernel panics starting X on some integrated GPUs.
2009-03-30 version 180.44
* Added support for the following GPUs:
Quadro FX 3800
Quadro FX 3700M
Quadro FX 1800
Quadro FX 580
Quadro FX 380
Quadro NVS 295
GeForce GT 120
GeForce G100
* Fixed a problem that could cause Xid errors and display corruption
in certain cases when OpenGL is used to render to redirected windows,
for example when Java2D is used with the -Dsun.java2d.opengl=true
option.
* Updated glGetStringi(GL_EXTENSIONS, i) to no longer return NULL
in OpenGL 3.0 preview contexts.
* Fixed OpenGL crashes while running KDE4's Plasma.
* Fixed OpenGL crashes when using a large number of texture objects.
* Fixed the timestamp reporting in the GL_NV_present_video extension
on SDI II with Quadro FX 4800 and 5800.
* Improved power management support on some systems, such
as Hewlett-Packard xw4600 workstations.
* Fixed a problem that caused the screen to flicker momentarily when
OpenGL applications exit unexpectedly on GeForce 6 and 7 series GPUs.
* Fixed an X server crash when an X client attempts to draw trapezoids
and RenderAccel is disabled.
* Improved recovery from certain types of errors.
* Fixed a bug that caused Autodesk Maya to freeze when overlays
are enabled.
* Fixed an interaction problem between OpenGL and memory tracking
libraries such as MicroQuill SmartHeap.
* Added support for RG renderbuffers in OpenGL 3.0.
* Added support for OpenGL 3.0 floating-point depth buffers.
* Fixed a problem that caused Valgrind to crash when tracing a
program that uses OpenGL.
* Updated VDPAU to support VC-1/WMV acceleration on all GPUs supported
by VDPAU; see the README for details.
* Fixed VDPAU corruption on some H.264 clips.
* Updated VDPAU documentation in the README and in vdpau.h,
in particular regarding how to use the deinterlacing algorithms
in the VdpVideoMixer object. Explicitly documented "half rate"
deinterlacing, which should allow the advanced algorithms to run
on more low-end systems.
* Implemented a "skip chroma deinterlace" option in VDPAU,
which should allow the advanced deinterlacing algorithms to run
on more low-end systems. See vdpau.h.
* Fixed VDPAU VC-1 decoding on 64-bit platforms.
* Updated the VDPAU wrapper library to print dlerror() messages
when driver loading problems occur.
* Improved VDPAU's handling of some corrupt H.264 streams, and some
corrupt/invalid MPEG streams on some GPUs.
* Fixed VDPAU to correctly handle WMV "range reduction" on
some GPUs. A minor backwards-compatible API change was made
for this; see vdpau.h's documentation for structure field
VdpPictureInfoVC1.rangered.
* Fixed a problem that caused surfaces to be marked as visible
too early when the blit presentation queue is in use.
* Fixed VDPAU to prevent some cases of "display preemption"
in the face of missing H.264 reference frames on some GPUs.
* Fixed corruption decoding H.264 clips with pictures where
pic_order_cnt_type implies log2_max_pic_order_cnt_lsb_minus4 is
not used, on G84, G86, G92, G94, G96, GT200 GPUs.
* Update vdpau.h to document exact requirements for VdpDecoderRender
bitstream data content.
* Fix VDPAU error handling in some unusual low memory situations.
* Fix hang in VDPAU in some cases of output mode timing changes.
* Fixed a bug where setting SLI to "auto" in the X configuration
file would disable SLI.
2009-02-11 version 180.29
* Added support for the following GPUs:
GeForce GTX 295
GeForce GTX 285
GeForce 9300 GE
Quadro NVS 420
* Added support for OpenGL 3.0 for GeForce 8 series and newer GPUs.
* Fixed a bug that caused VDPAU to display a green screen when
using the overlay-based presentation queue with interlaced
modes.
* Fixed a bug that prevented VDPAU from working correctly
after X server restarts on some GPUs.
* Improved VDPAU's handling of mode switches; eliminated a crash
in its mode switch recovery code and a hang in the
blit-based presentation queue.
* Fixed a bug that caused VDPAU to crash when using DisplayPort
devices.
* Fixed a potential hang in VDPAU when using the blit-based
presentation queue on systems with multiple GPUs not
in SLI mode.
* Implemented missing error checking of layer data in VDPAU's
VdpVideoMixerRender function.
* Improved VDPAU's handling of setups with multiple GPUs, if
a subset of the GPUs cannot be supported due to
resource limitations.
* Improved GPU video memory management coordination between the
NVIDIA X driver and VDPAU.
* Fix potential hang in VDPAU when the overlay is already in use.
* Improved workstation OpenGL performance.
* Fixed an X driver acceleration bug that resulted in Xid errors
on GeForce 6 and 7 series GPUs.
* Updated the X driver to consider GPUs it does not recognize
supported, allowing it to drive some GPUs it previously
ignored.
* Added the ability to run distribution provided pre- and post-
installation hooks to 'nvidia-installer'; please see the
'nvidia-installer' manual page for details.
* Updated the X driver's metamode parser to allow mode names
with periods (i.e. '.'s).
* Fixed a problem in VDPAU that prevented the overlay-based
presentation queue from being used on displays connected by component
video.
* Fixed various problems in VDPAU that caused visual corruption when
decoding certain MPEG-2 video streams.
* Fixed a crash in VDPAU caused by certain invalid MPEG-2 streams,
in 64-bit drivers for some GPUs.
* Fixed an X driver performance problem on integrated GPUs.
* Fixed a stability problem with OpenGL applications using FSAA.
* Fixed an initialization problem that caused some AGP
GPUs to be used in PCI compatibility mode.
* Fixed a bug that could result in stability problems
after changing clock settings via the Coolbits
interface.
Linux specific changes:
* Fixed a problem with hotkey switching on some recent
mobile GPUs.
* Worked around a power management regression in and improved
compatibility with recent Linux 2.6 kernels.
2009-01-08 version 180.22
* Added support for the following GPUs:
Quadro FX 2700M
GeForce 9400M G
GeForce 9400M
GeForce 9800 GT
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.
Linux specific changes:
* Improved compatibility with recent Linux kernels.
FreeBSD specific changes:
* Fixed a problem that caused the Linux OpenGL library to crash
when used inside FreeBSD's Linux emulation layer.
2008-11-12 version 177.82
* Added support for the following new GPUs:
Quadro NVS 450
Quadro FX 370 LP
Quadro FX 5800
Quadro FX 4800
Quadro FX 470
Quadro CX
* Fixed a problem on recent mobile GPUs that caused a power management
resume from S3 to take 30+ seconds.
* Fixed an image corruption issue seen in FireFox 3.
Linux specific changes:
* Fixed a problem with hotkey switching on some recent mobile GPUs.
2008-10-07 version 177.80
* Added support for the following new GPUs:
GeForce GTX 260
GeForce GTX 280
GeForce 9800 GTX+
GeForce 9800 GT
GeForce 9700M GTS
GeForce 9500 GT
GeForce 8100P
nForce 780a SLI
nForce 750a SLI
Quadro FX 770M
Quadro NVS 160M
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.
Linux specific changes:
* 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.
* Updated the X driver to consider /sys/class/power_supply
when determining the AC power state.
* 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.
Solaris specific changes:
* Fixed a bug that caused intermittent kernel panics when stress
testing attach/detach paths.
FreeBSD specific changes:
* Fixed a bug that caused the kernel module to fail building
against some FreeBSD kernels.
* Fixed a bug that caused the kernel module to fail building
with FreeBSD AGPGART support enabled.
* Resolved an event-handling bug in the X driver responsible for
X server crashes upon starting a windowed OpenGL
application while using Compiz.
2008-07-30 version 173.14.12
* Added support for GeForce 8600 GS.
* Fixed a problem with missing rendering in OpenGL Workstation
Overlays.
* Fixed a problem with running some SDL applications and virtual
terminal switching.
* Fixed a potential crash in nvidia-settings when saving to the X
configuration file.
* Improved error recovery paths in the case of corruption of the
commands sent to the GPU.
2008-06-11 version 173.14.09
* Fixed aliased font rendering corruption on X.Org server 1.5.
* Fixed a display corruption problem driving two dual-link
DFPs with Quadro FX 1700 GPUs.
* Fixed a regression that prevented the X driver from starting
on some GeForce FX, 6 and 7 mobile GPUs.
* Fixed a locale-interaction issue in the nvidia-settings
NV-CONTROL protocol parser.
Linux specific changes:
* Added preliminary support for Linux 2.6.26.
FreeBSD specific changes:
* Fixed a problem that caused a memory leak when some OpenGL
applications are syncing to vblank.
2008-05-28 version 173.14.05
* Added support for the following new GPUs:
Quadro FX 3600M
GeForce 9800 GX2
GeForce 9800 GTX
GeForce 9600 GT
GeForce 9600 GSO
GeForce 9600 GS
GeForce 9500M GS
GeForce 8400
GeForce 8400 GS
* Added support for Quadro FX 5600/4600 SDI and Quadro
G-Sync II.
* Resolved a bug causing left and right eyes to be reversed
in stereo mode on some Quadro FX GPUs.
* Fixed a problem that caused OpenGL to stop rendering to
windows with origins at or beyond 4096 pixels (horizontally)
on GeForce 8 and 9 GPUs.
* Fixed a bug causing some Quadro FX 4500 SDI configurations
to take a long time to achieve synchronization.
* Added preliminary support for X.Org server 1.5.
* Addressed a problem causing visual corruption when using
GeForce 8 GPUs to drive Chi Mei 56" displays.
* Addressed visual corruption when driving Cintiq 20WSX wide
format tables with some GeForce 6 and 7 GPUs.
* Fixed OpenGL rendering corruption with textures compressed
using the DXT5 compression algorithm.
* Fixed a regression that caused invalid EDIDs to be detected
for the internal display device on some notebooks.
* Improved hotkey switching and power management support on
some GeForce 8 notebooks.
* Fixed a regression causing some GeForce 6100/6150 systems to
fail to restore the screen after DPMS cycles.
* Fixed a bug that prevented the console from being restored
correctly in SLI mode on GeForce 6 and 7 GPUs.
* Fixed interlaced modes on GeForce 8 GPUs.
* Fixed a problem that caused the synchronization signal
polarity to always be positive for DVI devices on
GeForce 8 and 9 GPUs.
* Resolved a problem resulting in X startup to fail on some
GeForce 8 and 9 systems without swap space.
* Fixed a bug resulting in X crashes when using GeForce 8
and 9 GPUs in SLI to drive X screens at depth 8.
* Fixed a problem that caused TV output on secondary TVs to be
black and white on some GPUs.
Linux specific changes:
* Restored compatibility with recent Linux 2.6 kernels.
Solaris specific changes:
* Fixed a bug that could result in kernel panics on SMP systems.
* Fixed a problem causing multi-threaded JOGL applications to
hang on exit.
FreeBSD specific changes:
* Resolved a bug that could cause the X driver to crash in
various out-of-IPC-resource scenarios; documented common IPC
resource related problems in the README.
* Added initial support for FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE.
2008-02-26 version 169.12
* Improved power management support with GeForce 8 GPUs.
* Further improved stability on some GeForce 8 GPUs.
* Fixed a bug that broke certain TwinView configurations with
TV-OUT on GeForce 8 GPUs.
* Fixed a bug that could cause OpenGL to crash in certain cases,
e.g. when running Counter-Strike under Wine.
* Further improved GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap out-of-memory
handling.
* Fixed a bug that could result in incorrect PowerMizer state
being reported.
* Improved nvidia-xconfig behavior when updating X configuration
files without a "Module" section.
* Worked around a problem that caused function key presses on
some Toshiba notebooks to result in system crashes.
Solaris specific changes:
* Fixed a bug that caused intermittent kernel panics when stress
testing setup/teardown paths.
* Fixed a problem that could result in X driver crashes when
trying to change resolutions with XRandR.
2008-01-21 version 169.09
* Fixed a problem causing the fan on some GPUs to always run at
full speed.
* Fixed a bug that could lead to X crashes using Paraview's
"Save Animation" dialog.
* Fixed a bug that caused the X driver to crash if the X.Org GLX
extension module was loaded instead of NVIDIA's.
* Improved the X driver's awareness of the current notebook
docking status.
* Fixed brightness control on HP Compaq notebooks.
* Fixed a bug in the Linux/i2c algorithm driver implementation
that prevented core transfer types from succeeding.
2007-12-20 version 169.07
* Added support for GeForce 8800 GTS 512 and GeForce 8800M.
* Added CUDA driver to .run file.
* Fixed several X rendering issues.
* Fixed problems scrolling ARGB X drawables in Qt.
* Improved support for interlaced DVI, HDMI, and HDTV modesetting.
2007-11-16 version 169.04
* Improved glXWaitVideoSyncSGI() latency by using a method asynchronous to
graphics commands. Applications using glXWaitVideoSyncSGI() to
synchronize graphics rendering to monitor frame rate will need to
call glFinish() before glXWaitVideoSyncSGI().
2007-10-18 version 100.14.19
* Added support for the GeForce 8800 GT.
* Improved modesetting support on Quadro/GeForce G8x GPUs.
* Fixed stability problems with some GeForce 8 GPUs.
* Fixed stability problems with some GeForce 6200/7200/7300 GPUs
on multi-core/SMP systems.
* Improved hotkey switching support for some Lenovo notebooks.
* Fixed a problem with Compiz after VT-switching.
* Improved RENDER performance.
* Improved interaction with Barco and Chi Mei 56" DFPs, as well
as with some Gateway 19" DFPs.
* Added an interface to monitor PowerMizer state information.
* Fixed rendering corruption in Maya's Graph Editor.
* Improved interaction between AFR SLI and swap groups on certain
Quadro FX GPUs.
* Fixed a bug that caused corruption with redirected XV on
GPUs without TurboCache support.
* Improved display device detection on GeForce 8 GPUs.
* Improved nvidia-settings usability at lower resolutions like
1024x768 and 800x600.
* Improved GLX visual consolidation when using Xinerama with
Quadro/GeForce G8x and older GPUs.
* Added experimental support for running the X server at Depth 30
(10 bits per component) on Quadro G8x and later GPUs.
Linux specific changes:
* Worked around a Linux kernel/toolchain bug that caused soft
lockup errors when suspending on some Intel systems.
Solaris specific changes:
* Fixed a bug that prevented stereo from being enabled properly
on some Quadro FX GPUs.
FreeBSD specific changes:
* Fixed a problem that could cause crashes on SMP systems.
2007-09-18 version 100.14.19
* Added support for new GPUs:
Quadro NVS 290
Quadro FX 370
Quadro FX 570
Quadro FX 1700
* Improved GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap out-of-memory handling.
* Fixed a performance regression on GeForce 8 GPUs.
* Added support for a 'NoScanout' mode to the X driver, useful for
high performance computing environments and remote graphics; please
see the 'UseDisplayDevice' option description for details.
* Improved power management support with GeForce 8 and older GPUs.
* Improved compatibility with recent X.Org X servers.
* Improved G-Sync support with Quadro FX 4600 and Quadro FX 5600.
* Added XV brightness and contrast controls to the GeForce 8
video texture adapter implementation.
* Further improved interaction with ATi RS480/482 based mainboards.
* Fixed stability problems with some GeForce 8 GPUs.
* Fixed XvMC support on GeForce 7050 PV / NVIDIA nForce 630a GPUs
with PureVideo support.
* Added support for bridgeless SLI with GeForce 8 GPUs.
* Fixed rotation support on some GeForce 8 GPUs.
* Fixed a problem causing X to render incorrectly after VT switches
with composited desktops.
* Fixed a RENDER acceleration bug that was causing 2D rendering
corruption in Eclipse with GeForce 8 GPUs.
* Improved VGA console restoration with DFPs and TVs.
* Fixed a bug that resulted in the generation of incorrect EDIDs
on some notebooks.
* Fixed flickering corruption with SLIAA on GeForce 8 GPUs.
Linux specific changes:
* Improved compatibility with recent Linux 2.6 kernels.
* Fixed a compatibility problem with some Linux 2.4 kernels.
* Improved hotkey switching support.
* Fixed an 'nvidia-installer' bug that was causing the installer
to treat some of its temporary files as conflicting.
* Fixed several problems causing crashes if /dev is mounted
with the 'noexec' option.
* Reduced kernel virtual memory usage with some GeForce 8 GPUs.
FreeBSD specific changes:
* Fixed installation problems on systems with modular X.Org
X servers.
* Fixed X driver event delivery problems interfering with event
driven features like DamageEvents.
Solaris specific changes:
* Fixed a bug that occasionally caused crashes at kernel module
unload time.
2007-06-21 version 100.14.11
* Added support for new GPUs:
GeForce 7050 PV / NVIDIA nForce 630a
GeForce 7025 / NVIDIA nForce 630a
* Fixed console restore problems in several different configurations:
Quadro FX 4400 SLI
VESA console
Notebook LCD displays
* Improved interaction with ATi RS480/482 based mainboards.
* Improved support for House Sync with G-Sync II.
* Improved NVIDIA X driver interaction with ACPI daemon.
2007-06-08 version 100.14.09
* Added support for new GPUs:
GeForce 8600 GTS
GeForce 8600 GT
GeForce 8600M GT
GeForce 8600M GS
GeForce 8500 GT
GeForce 8400 GS
GeForce 8400M GT
GeForce 8400M GS
GeForce 8400M G
GeForce 8300 GS
Quadro FX 1600M
Quadro FX 570M
Quadro FX 360M
Quadro NVS 320M
Quadro NVS 140M
Quadro NVS 135M
Quadro NVS 130M
* Added support for G-Sync with Quadro FX 4600 and Quadro FX 5600.
* Improved Notebook support.
* Improved RenderAccel support for subpixel antialiased fonts.
* Added XV brightness and contrast controls for GeForce 8 GPUs.
* Improved interaction with newer Linux kernels.
* Fixed a locale-interaction issue in the nvidia-settings
configuration file parser.
2007-03-07 version 1.0-9755
* Added support for Quadro FX 4600 and Quadro FX 5600.
* Added support for SLI with GeForce 8800, Quadro FX 4600,
and Quadro FX 5600.
2006-12-21 version 1.0-9746
* Added support for GeForce 8800 GTX and GeForce 8800 GTS GPUs.
2006-12-04 version 1.0-9631
* Fixed an OpenGL crash on some GeForce 3 and GeForce 4 GPUs.
* Fixed an X server crash starting some fullscreen OpenGL games.
* Improved interaction with newer Linux kernels.
2006-11-07 version 1.0-9629
* Added initial support for GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap.
* Added new "Display Configuration" page in nvidia-settings.
* Improved workstation OpenGL performance in Xinerama.
* Added support for NVIDIA Quadro Plex.
* Added support for Quad SLI.
* Improved X driver error recovery.
* Improved workstation overlay performance.
* Added SMBus functionality to the Linux/i2c interface.
* Fixed DFP scaling support.
* Added support for OpenGL 2.1.
* Added new "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" X configuration option to
control the order of display devices when in TwinView.
* Fixed some problems related to TV Out.
* Added new NVIDIA logo artwork to nvidia-settings and X driver
splashscreen; the X driver splashscreen can now be configured
with the new "LogoPath" X configuration option.
2006-10-19 version 1.0-8776
* Fixed Security Advisory R7-0025.
2006-08-24 version 1.0-8774
* Added support for X.Org 7.1.
* Added support for XVideo with the Composite X extension when
using X.Org 7.1.
* Improved interaction with newer Linux kernels.
2006-05-22 version 1.0-8762
* Added support for new GPUs, such as QuadroFX 4500 X2, Quadro FX
5500, Quadro FX 3500, and Quadro FX 1500.
* Improved Quadro FX 3450/4000 SDI support.
* Fixed video memory reporting with GeForce 6200 Turbo Cache.
* Fixed a problem with Overlay support when in TwinView.
* Fixed problems starting X with SLI Frame Rendering on nForce 4
SLI Intel Edition.
* Fixed multiple issues with combinations of Stereo, SLI,
FrameRendering and G-Sync.
* Fixed several issues with mode selection for CRTs and DFPs.
* Fixed a corruption problem with Rotation and large desktops on
older GPUs, including GeForce4 MX.
* Fixed a system crash starting X with TwinView on certain GPUs.
* Addressed an NV-CONTROL compatibility issue; please see the Known
Issues section of the README for details.
2006-04-07 version 1.0-8756
* Added support for GeForce 7300, GeForce 7400, GeForce 7600 and
GeForce 7900.
* Added support for running OpenGL applications while the
Composite X extension is enabled; see "The X Composite Extension"
appendix for details.
* Enabled hardware acceleration of the Render X extension by default.
* Added "AddARGBGLXVisuals" X configuration option, so that OpenGL
applications can render to X Windows' alpha channel.
* Added Linux/i2c support to the NVIDIA kernel module; see the "i2c
Bus Support" appendix for details.
* Improved power management support with Linux >= 2.6.14 and
added support for suspend-to-disk.
* Added new "nvidia-auto-select" mode entry for use in the X
configuration file; see description in the "Programming Modes"
appendix.
* Added support for GLX 1.4.
* Added ability for OpenGL applications to span greater than
4096 pixels when in Xinerama.
* Improved G-Sync support.
* Fixed interlaced modes on CRTs.
* Improved compatibility with the latest Linux 2.6 kernels.
2005-12-22 version 1.0-8178
* Fixed a problem where certain precompiled kernel interfaces were
not recognized.
* Improved stability with the Composite X extension.
* Fixed a corruption bug with RenderAccel and the Composite X
extension when using wide desktops.
* Fixed a problem validating HDTV modes on GeForce 6200.
* Fixed detection of certain older TV encoders.
* Fixed installation problems with Linux kernel source trees
using separate KBUILD output directories.
* Fixed installation problems on newer Debian systems.
2005-12-05 version 1.0-8174
* Added support for SLI FrameRendering. Please see the README
for details.
* Added support for new GPUs such as the GeForce 6100 and GeForce 6150.
* Added a new utility 'nvidia-xconfig', which is a commandline
tool for updating X configuration files.
* Added manpages for 'nvidia-xconfig', 'nvidia-settings', and
'nvidia-installer'.
* Improved workstation OpenGL performance on Solaris.
* Made UseEdidFreqs "on" by default; the NVIDIA X driver will
use the valid HorizSync and VertRefresh frequency ranges from the
EDID whenever possible.
* Added support for Stereo Digital Flat Panels such as the SeeReal
and Sharp3D DFPs.
* Added HTML version of the README.
* Added support for static Rotation; see the "Rotate" X config option
in the README.
* Improved stability on 64-bit Linux 2.6 kernels.
* Fixed driver installation when SELinux is enabled.
2005-08-02 version 1.0-7676
* Improved GeForce 7800 GTX performance.
2005-06-22 version 1.0-7667
* Added support for GeForce 7800 GTX.
* Fixed problem with certain flatpanels running at 1600x1200.
* Fixed an unresolved symbol issue in libXvMCNVIDIA.so.
* Fixed an unresolved reference to the symbol "gnu_dev_makedev".
* Worked around a bug in Java2D that was exposed in 1.0-7664.
* Improved support for Quadro FX 4000 SDI.
2005-06-01 version 1.0-7664
* Install NVIDIA OpenGL headers by default.
* Fixed performance problem when using AGPGART.
* Fixed support for GeForce2 Integrated GPUs.
* Fixed a workstation graphics stability problem.
* Improved XRandR rotation support.
* Fixed installation problems on some Linux 2.6 kernels.
2005-03-11 version 1.0-7167
* Improved OpenGL workstation performance.
* Added support for XRandR rotation; see Appendix W in the text README.
* Added ExactModeTimingsDVI X config option to give explicit control
over the mode timings used on FlatPanels.
* Added X.Org dlloader support.
* Changed driver behavior such that PAT (Page Attribute Table)
is used where possible instead of MTRRs.
* Added a workaround for an X server bug with PCI-E GeForce 6800
and GeForce 6600; a fix has been provided to XFree86 and X.Org.
* Fixed stability problems on x86_64 PCI-E systems.
* Documented change_page_attr problems with x86_64 2.6 kernels;
please see the known issue "The X86-64 platform (AMD64/EM64T)
and 2.6 kernels" in the text README here:
/usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README
* Fixed 2D rendering corruption on certain older GPUs.
* Improved compatibility with Linux 2.6 kernels.
* Fixed compatibility problems with some SWIOTLB em64t systems.
* Fixed a bug that triggered error messages of the form:
"ioctl32(doom.x86:6747): Unknown cmd fd(16) cmd(c0384642){00}
arg(ffffc75c) on /dev/nvidiactl"
* Fixed NvAGP incompatibility with recent Linux 2.6 kernels.
* Improved interaction with the udev filesystem.
* Improved performance of PCI cards on Linux 2.6 systems.
* Support for TurboCache GPUs.
2004-11-5 version 1.0-6629
* Added support for GeForce 6600 and GeForce 6600 GT.
* Added support for Quadro FX 4000 SDI
* Added support for 512 MB framebuffers.
* Improved support for GLSL (OpenGL Shading Language).
* Improved performance for VBO (OpenGL Vertex Buffer Objects).
* Improved support for Linux 2.6 kernels.
* Improved support for PCI Express.
* Reduced virtual address space consumption in OpenGL applications.
* Updated documentation. Please see the file
/usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README
There are new known issues on EM64T and multithreaded
application stability as well as new appendices:
(app-s) APPENDIX S: POWER MANAGEMENT SUPPORT
(app-t) APPENDIX T: DISPLAY DEVICE NAMES
(app-u) APPENDIX U: THE COMPOSITE X EXTENSION
* Improved support for EM64T Linux/x86-64 systems
* Improved support for RenderAccell
* Improved performance for Java2D.
2004-8-5 version 1.0-6111
* Fixed SoftImage certification issues.
* Made the the "Do you really want to quit?" dialog in nvidia-settings
optional (via the nvidia-settings Configuration page).
* Fixed problem that prevented multiple simultaneous X servers
from running on TNT/TNT2.
* Fixed problem that caused TV-Out modes other than 640x480 and
800x600 to be unavailable.
* Fixed problem that caused cursor misplacement/corruption in
certain TwinView configurations.
* Fixed problem that caused some AGP kernel module options to
be ignored.
* Fixed problem in GLSL with shadow2DProj.
* Fixed console restore problems on GeForce4 Ti.
2004-6-30 version 1.0-6106
* Added support for GLSL (OpenGL Shading Language).
* Added support for GL_EXT_pixel_buffer_object.
* Added support for 4kstack kernels.
* Added configuration utility "nvidia-settings"; see the user guide
installed here:
/usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/nvidia-settings-user-guide.txt
for details.
* Added support for running 32bit OpenGL applications on 64bit AMD64
Linux installations.
* Fixed problem that prevented 32bit kernel driver from running on
certain AMD64 CPUs.
* Added a new Xv adaptor on GeForce4 and GeForceFX which uses the
3D engine to do Xv PutImage requests. This allows XvMC to operate
when the video overlay is not available (such as in TwinView).
XvMC still uses the overlay by default, when available. A new
XF86Config option "XvmcUsesTextures" has been added to force
usage of the 3D engine for XvMCPutSurface even when overlays are
available.
* Added a shell script "nvidia-bug-report.sh" that gathers
system configuration information into a log file; the resulting
log file (nvidia-bug-report.log) should be included when reporting
bugs to NVIDIA.
2004-1-26 version 1.0-5336
* Added support for Linux 2.6 kernels.
* Fixed a problem that caused kernels oops, black screens, and agp
failures on some VIA motherboards.
* Fixed a typo in the NVIDIA-provided libGL.la.
* Fixed a problem that prevented X from running on Samsung X10 laptops.
* Deprecated the "--kernel-include-path" .run commandline option,
in favor of "--kernel-source-path".
2003-12-22 version 1.0-5328
* Added support for UBB and FSAA Stereo.
* Improved GLXPixamp support.
* Added support for Red Hat Advanced Workstation 3.0.
* Added support for GLX_SGI_swap_control.
* Added an OS ABI ELF Note to the OpenGL libraries.
* Fix a problem where the video overlay would sometimes stop working
when displaying HDTV resolutions.
* For graphics cards that require a power connector but do not have
a connector plugged in, fail X screen initialization, rather than
just print a warning message.
* Reduced CPU usage when OpenGL applications are syncing to vblank.
2003-7-28 version 1.0-4496
* Improved OpenGL performance when rendering to multiple
buffers (such as when using a stereo visual and rendering to
GL_LEFT_AND_RIGHT).
* Initial support for APM power management.
* Fixed some RENDER related corruption reported with GTK+ 2.2.2.
* Added support for Active Stereo + TwinView.
* Fixed a hang on GeForce2 that occurred when using RENDER extension
acceleration on some apps such as OpenOffice.
2003-4-24 version 1.0-4363
* Fixed a problem that prevented running multiple X servers on
different virtual terminals.
* Improved IDCT level acceleration in XvMC.
* Fixed a 2D performance slowdown experienced by many people.
2002-12-11 version 1.0-4191
* Added support for FSAA with UBB.
* Support for OpenGL 1.4
* Finished GLX 1.3 support
* Support for AGP 3.0
* Improved support for NForce2
* Added support for NV30 and NV30 extensions.
* Fixed bug where there was corruption at the borders of a pbuffer
* More complete acceleration for the XRENDER extension. Due to the
experimental nature, RENDER acceleration is now disabled by default
(Option "RenderAccel" enables it).
* The driver no longer uses the XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA),
but provides its own 2D acceleration architecture to better accomodate
the needs of simultaneous 3D and 2D rendering.
* Added color index overlay emulation on Quadro4.
* Added support for separate X screens on a single GPU (supported
by all GPUs that support TwinView).
2002-9-10 version 1.0-3123
* Added support for NV18, NV28 and nForce 2.
* Added Quadbuffered workstation stereo visuals for Quadro2, 4 and
Quadro DCC.
* Improved Viewperf numbers.
* Added support for up to 16 monitors.
* Added support for T221 panel.
* Added support for RGB OpenGL overlays in TwinView on NV25/28.
* Added support for hardware clip ids on Quadro4 parts. Option "UseClipIDs"
enables them.
2002-5-23 version 1.0-2960
* Fixed problem with loading the GLX extension in multi-head
environments with non-NVIDIA video cards.
* Significant performance improvements in Viewperf on Quadro parts.
* Added option "NoRenderExtension" to disable the RENDER extension.
This is useful in 8bpp where the RENDER extension will preallocate
a large portion of the default colormap and break many legacy
applications.
* Fixed a regression where I420 XvImages had the chroma planes swapped.
* Fixed some problems with moving overlay windows.
* Added a dynamic XvMC library "libXvMCNVIDIA_dynamic.so" so that
applications can dynamically load the vendor-specific core XvMC
support.
* Added XvMC motion-compensation acceleration for NV25 and fixed
some bugs in the NV17 XvMC support.
* Fixed some problems with FSAA modes failing.
2002-4-3 version 1.0-2880
* Fixed rendering problems which occurred in some cases when
GL_SYNC_TO_VBLANK was enabled.
* Fixed problem where the maximum pixel clock was set too low.
* Fixed a problem with image flicker when running full-screen apps
on GeForce4.
* Fixed a pixmap cache corruption problem on GeForce3.
* Fixed some issues running multiple NVIDIA graphics cards simultaneously.
2002-3-7 version 1.0-2802
* Support for anisotropic filtering.
* Provide libXvMCNVIDIA.a which is an implementation of XvMC 1.0.
This allows mpeg acceleration on NV17 chips and NV17 chips only.
* RGB Workstation overlays for Quadro4. These are double buffered,
Z-buffered 16 bit visuals. The transparency key is 0x0000 hex.
* NV17 and NV25 support.
* Added an 8:8:8:8 XRGB XvImage format to the video blitter.
* Config file option for Digital Vibrance Control.
* Added new XF86Config option "FlatPanelProperties" to control dithering
and scaling when X is started.
* Added support for SoftEDID's. When enabled the driver will generate
an EDID based on the video bios isntead of doing a table lookup.
* Improved Crush support
* Fixed problem with using SGIX_fbconfig and SGIX_pbuffer with
indirect rendering (protocol was incorrect)
* Fixed problem where the driver would fail on systems with >= 1GB
of memory and a kernel configured to use all the memory.
2001-11-26 version 1.0-2313
* Got Crush working.
* OpenGL 1.3 support.
* Added SGIX_pbuffer and SGIX_fbconfig extensions.
* Added UBB support, pageflipping and window flipping (described in
README).
* Improved Viewperf performance, Quake performance and performance
of immediate mode applications.
* Improved stability on AMD platforms.
* Fixed TwinView problem that caused garbage to appear on the screen
when starting X with a null option on head 0.
* Added workaround for XAA bug that causes system to hang when Lisa
Screensaver is run. The problem is worked around by adding the
following line in the "Device" section of the XF86Config file:
'Option "XaaNoSolidFillTrap"'. This option prevents XAA from
breaking wide lines (and polyggons) into trapezoids and avoids an
XAA clipping bug.
* Fixed a system hang that occured on some chipsets when taking the
X server down (after having run once successfully) and restarting
it while using the DVI-I connected toa flat panel.
* Fixed problem where the performer application Perfly would hang
when run in forked-draw mode.
* Fixed problem where the X driver would segfault when given an
invalid MetaMode.
* Fixed problem where the console was not restored properly after
entering X and returning to the console.
* Fixed problem where X did not redraw completely after a screen
blank on GForce 2 Go and Quadro 2 Go.
* Fixed problem with initializing secondary card. In most cases, the
secondary card is posted correctly. In the cases where it isn't,
there is now a workaround to initialize the card via X.
* Added workarounds to enable AGP on ALI chipsets and enable 4X AGP
on VIA chipsets (See README and use with caution!).
2001-08-20 version 1.0-1541
* Changed behaviour of the X server so the NVIDIA splash screen will
only show up on the first run of X. This can also be disabled by
setting an option in XF86Config (see README).
* Fixed problem where OpenGL applications would sometimes leave
portions of their rendering behind when the window was closed
using the kill button on the window banner.
* Fixed problem on mobile where X would respond to the wrong hotkey
event under some conditions.
* Fixed several more problems with indirect rendering.
* Fixed problem on SMP machines which occured when VT switching
while running gloss and gears indirect.
* Fixed problem where /proc/nv/card0 did not report nv20 correctly.
* Fixed problem on TNT2, where the driver would only support up to 4
threads per process.
* Fixed Xserver crash that occured when running two Xservers with
AGPgart.
* Fixed some problems in GLX that occured when running
multi-threaded applications.
2001-07-05 version 1.0-1420
* Added support for hotkey switching on mobile platforms.
* Fixed a hang on mobile that occurred after starting X, killing it
and restarting.
* Fixed a problem on mobile platforms that prevented DVD's from
displaying.
* Fixed a problem that caused OpenGL programs to segfault when using
a graphical login with xdm/kdm, and doing the following sequence:
login, mode switch, logout, log in and run a GL app.
* Fixed some indirect rendering problems.
* Fixed a problem that caused Xconfigure to fail on NVIDIA drivers.
* Fixed a crash that occured when X forwarding over SSH.
* Fixed OpenGL front buffer clipping bug.
* Added xf86XVOffscreenImage support so the V4L module can use the
hardware scaler on YUV surfaces.
* Improved X-Render acceleration.
* Fixed a bug that prevented X-Render acceleration on GeForce3.
2001-05-14 version 1.0-1251
* Preliminary GeForce2 Go support.
* Added support for GeForce3 OpenGL and GLX extensions.
* Fixed many SMP bugs.
* Added TV-Out support.
* Fixed DGA depth change bug.
* Rewrote 2D offscreen memory allocation.
* Fixed X-Video in TwinView.
* Acceleration for X-Render extension.
* Fixed up GLXPixmap rendering.
* Fixed problem with make current to same drawable but different
dpy.
* Fixed problem in which OpenGL would segfault when reading X
atoms.
* X now gets the DPI (dots per inch) from the monitor's EDID (rather
than just defaulting to 75 dpi).
* All DPMS modes are now supported. There are still issues on flat
panels and on the second head of a TwinView system (please see the
README).
* Fixed support for AGP on systems with 1 GB or more of memory.
2001-02-16 version 0.9-769
* Fixed problem where direct rendering applications were allowed to
continue rendering after xkill was called.
* Fixed problem where Tribes 2 crashed when compressed textures
(s3tc textures) were used.
* Some drawable leaks were fixed in X and GLX.
* Fixed problem where the application would hang when calling
glXMakeCurrent while holding the X server grab.
* Bios-posting problems on GeForce2 GTS and GeForce Ultra cards were
fixed. This bug resulted in a significant performance loss.
* Added support for the X Render extension.
* TwinView functionality was enhanced so that each head can pan
independently.
* Fixed problem on TNT and TNT2 where Xv(Shm)PutImage returned
BadAlloc in high resolutions when there was not enough video
bandwidth to display the YUV video overlay correctly. This works
now but the resulting display has artifacts.
* Fixed problem with cursor hanges in X.
* Fixed problem with X console not restoring on some monitors.
* Fixed problem with fork() and OpenGL rendering.
* Fixed problem with X driver module, nvidia_drv.o, being stripped
when RPM was rebuilt.
* Added missing PCI device ids for some TNT2 variants and GeForce3.
* Fixed problem where the kernel would often hang during X and/or
OpenGL operation when on an SMP machine and using the 2.4 kernel.
* Fixed SYNC_TO_VBLANK hang with 2.4 kernels.
* DPMS is partially working again. It is possible to set the "off"
option for dpms. DPMS options "suspend" and "standby" are not
fully supported -- they simply blank the screen.
2000-12-20 version 0.96
* Fix many SMP problems.
* Fix memory management problems that arise with large RAM systems
(500M+).
* Add multi-mon OpenGL support.
* Add TwiNView support.
* More modeline handling fixes, added double-scan support.
* Fix bios-posting problems with TNT2 M64s and GeForce2 MXs.
* Dynamic run-time selection between nvagp and agpgart.
* Fix TNT2 OpenGL slowdowns (noticeable in UT).
2000-08-30 version 0.95
* Improve XFree86 4.0.1 support.
* Re-fixed console switch lockup.
* Fix some AGP regressions. Better detection/support for AGPGART.
* Fix color palette problems (xgamma, direct color visuals).
* Add bios posting override to help with some card problems (M64).
* Update included 2.4 support to newest test kernels.
2000-07-07 version 0.94
* Add support for XFree86 4.0.1
* Fix modesetting problem.
* Add AGPGART support (nvagpgart v. 0.5-5).
* Add GeForce2 MX support.
* Fixed various hangs.
* Added FSAA support.
* Fixed problem where an opengl app dying during a console switch
would kill the X Server.
2000-06-08 version 0.9-3
* Allow Modeline directives in the XF86Config file to override our
auto-detection of monitor resolutions and refresh rates.
* "Correct" fix for TNT memory-type problems.
* Fix for VT switch lockups.
* Fix for general ALI chipset lockups.
* Addition and documentation of some registry keys. Check
os-registry.c in the kernel source directory for more details and
options.
* Work around Quake3 modeswitch crashing bug. Note: It's really a
bug in dlopen().
* Major improvement in multi-threading behavior.
* Display list sharing with glXCreateContext works now.
* Faster implementation of glTexImage/glTexSubImage and
glCopyTexImage/glCopytexSubImage calls.
* Fixed kernel memory leak, relating to threaded OpenGL. This
problem was most noticeable with xmms.
* Fix build problems with older 2.2.x kernels (RedHat 6.0).
2000-05-02 version 0.9-2
* Fixed problem initializing TNT w/ SGRAM.
* Removed all GPL'd code from nv.c.
* Better logging and messages everywhere for tracking problems.
* Dynamic allocation of client data in kernel, rather than static.
* Incorporated *unsupported* 2.3 kernel changes for completeness.
* Makefile updates - add -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES, and default to 'make
install'.
* Improved mode switching in quake3 (still see occasional crashes).
* Changed installation name of libraries. We now have a .1.0.1
revision name in the libraries.
* Temporarily force disabling of AGP fast writes for all chipsets.
* Fixed monitor issues, allow overriding of sync polarities.
2000-04-25 version 0.9-1
* Initial Release.
