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09-26-08, 09:19 PM
Changes since 177.76:
Fixed a performance regression affecting the gtkperf lines and circles test.
Changes since 177.70:
Added support for the following new GPUs:
GeForce 9500 GT
Fixed a bug that caused GPU errors when applications used the X RENDER extension's repeating modes in conjunction with color-index overlays or rotation on GeForce 7 series and older GPUs.
Fixed a bug that caused system hangs when using the NV-CONTROL interface to change GPU clock frequencies.
Fixed a text rendering performance regression on GeForce 7 series and older GPUs when InitialPixmapPlacement is set to 2.
Updated mode validation, in cases when no EDID is detected, such that 1024x768 @ 60Hz and 800x600 @ 60Hz are allowed, rather than just 640x480 @ 60Hz.
Added a workaround for broken EDIDs provided by some Acer AL1512 monitors.
Changes since 177.68:
Added support for the following new GPUs:
GeForce 9800 GTX+
GeForce 9800 GT
GeForce 8100P
nForce 780a SLI
nForce 750a SLI
Quadro FX 770M
Quadro NVS 160M
Quadro NVS 150M
Improved support for RENDER operations with the same source
and destination; this should enhance performance in
some situations, e.g. when dragging Plasma applets in KDE4.
Fixed a text rendering performance regression that affected
GeForce 6 and 7 series GPUs.
Fixed a regression that caused text to be missing or
corrupt on GeForce 6 and 7 series GPUs.
Fixed a regression responsible for false negatives during
SLI video bridge detection attempts after X server
restarts.
Resolved an event-handling bug in the X driver responsible for
X server crashes upon starting a windowed OpenGL
application while using Compiz.
Changes between 177.67 and 177.68:
Added support for the GeForce 9700M GTS.
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.
Fixed a RENDER corruption bug on GeForce 6 and 7 GPUs.
Fixed a bug that caused GLXBadDrawable errors to be generated
when running more than one OpenGL application with
anti-aliasing enabled on GeForce 6 and 7 GPUs, e.g. wine.
Fixed a bug that caused GPU errors when killing the X server
while an OpenGL application is running.
Fixed a bug on GeForce 8, 9 and GTX GPUs that caused dynamic
display configuration to fail on GPUs not currently
driving an X screen.
177.67 BETA Release Highlights:
Added support for the following new GPUs:
GeForce GTX 260
GeForce GTX 280
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.
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.
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.
Removed an old workaround that caused incorrect fake Xinerama information to be reported after enabling a second TwinView display.
Fixed the subpicture component order reported by the NVIDIA X driver's XvMC implementation.
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.
The 177.78 NVIDIA Accelerated FreeBSD Graphics Driver Set for FreeBSD/i386 is available for download via FTP (ftp://download.nvidia.com/freebsd/177.78/NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-177.78.tar.gz).
Please see the README (ftp://download.nvidia.com/freebsd/177.78/README/index.html) for more information about this release.
If you are using FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE or a more recent FreeBSD 6.x release, please make sure that the compat5x-i386 package is installed.
Note that the gtk-2.x ports package(s) shipped with FreeBSD releases > 5.3-RELEASE are binary incompatible with those shipped with FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE; due to this, the `nvidia-settings` binary shipped with 177.78 will not work on FreeBSD > 5.3-RELEASE. This problem can be solved by (re-)building `nvidia-settings` from source:
# fetch ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/nvidia-settings/nvidia-settings-177.78.tar.gz
# tar zxf nvidia-settings-177.78.tar.gz
# cd nvidia-settings-1.0
# gmake
# install nvidia-settings /usr/X11R6/bin
Please note: This NVIDIA FreeBSD graphics driver release supports GeForce 6 series and newer NVIDIA GPUs. GeForce FX GPUs are supported through the 173.14.xx driver series, while GeForce4 and older GPUs are supported through the 96.43.xx and 71.86.xx NVIDIA legacy graphics drivers.
Please also note: If you encounter any problems with the 177.78 NVIDIA FreeBSD graphics driver release, please start a new thread and include a detailed description of the problem, reproduction steps and generate/attach an nvidia-bug-report.log file (please see http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=46678 for details).
Fixed a performance regression affecting the gtkperf lines and circles test.
Changes since 177.70:
Added support for the following new GPUs:
GeForce 9500 GT
Fixed a bug that caused GPU errors when applications used the X RENDER extension's repeating modes in conjunction with color-index overlays or rotation on GeForce 7 series and older GPUs.
Fixed a bug that caused system hangs when using the NV-CONTROL interface to change GPU clock frequencies.
Fixed a text rendering performance regression on GeForce 7 series and older GPUs when InitialPixmapPlacement is set to 2.
Updated mode validation, in cases when no EDID is detected, such that 1024x768 @ 60Hz and 800x600 @ 60Hz are allowed, rather than just 640x480 @ 60Hz.
Added a workaround for broken EDIDs provided by some Acer AL1512 monitors.
Changes since 177.68:
Added support for the following new GPUs:
GeForce 9800 GTX+
GeForce 9800 GT
GeForce 8100P
nForce 780a SLI
nForce 750a SLI
Quadro FX 770M
Quadro NVS 160M
Quadro NVS 150M
Improved support for RENDER operations with the same source
and destination; this should enhance performance in
some situations, e.g. when dragging Plasma applets in KDE4.
Fixed a text rendering performance regression that affected
GeForce 6 and 7 series GPUs.
Fixed a regression that caused text to be missing or
corrupt on GeForce 6 and 7 series GPUs.
Fixed a regression responsible for false negatives during
SLI video bridge detection attempts after X server
restarts.
Resolved an event-handling bug in the X driver responsible for
X server crashes upon starting a windowed OpenGL
application while using Compiz.
Changes between 177.67 and 177.68:
Added support for the GeForce 9700M GTS.
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.
Fixed a RENDER corruption bug on GeForce 6 and 7 GPUs.
Fixed a bug that caused GLXBadDrawable errors to be generated
when running more than one OpenGL application with
anti-aliasing enabled on GeForce 6 and 7 GPUs, e.g. wine.
Fixed a bug that caused GPU errors when killing the X server
while an OpenGL application is running.
Fixed a bug on GeForce 8, 9 and GTX GPUs that caused dynamic
display configuration to fail on GPUs not currently
driving an X screen.
177.67 BETA Release Highlights:
Added support for the following new GPUs:
GeForce GTX 260
GeForce GTX 280
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.
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.
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.
Removed an old workaround that caused incorrect fake Xinerama information to be reported after enabling a second TwinView display.
Fixed the subpicture component order reported by the NVIDIA X driver's XvMC implementation.
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.
The 177.78 NVIDIA Accelerated FreeBSD Graphics Driver Set for FreeBSD/i386 is available for download via FTP (ftp://download.nvidia.com/freebsd/177.78/NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-177.78.tar.gz).
Please see the README (ftp://download.nvidia.com/freebsd/177.78/README/index.html) for more information about this release.
If you are using FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE or a more recent FreeBSD 6.x release, please make sure that the compat5x-i386 package is installed.
Note that the gtk-2.x ports package(s) shipped with FreeBSD releases > 5.3-RELEASE are binary incompatible with those shipped with FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE; due to this, the `nvidia-settings` binary shipped with 177.78 will not work on FreeBSD > 5.3-RELEASE. This problem can be solved by (re-)building `nvidia-settings` from source:
# fetch ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/nvidia-settings/nvidia-settings-177.78.tar.gz
# tar zxf nvidia-settings-177.78.tar.gz
# cd nvidia-settings-1.0
# gmake
# install nvidia-settings /usr/X11R6/bin
Please note: This NVIDIA FreeBSD graphics driver release supports GeForce 6 series and newer NVIDIA GPUs. GeForce FX GPUs are supported through the 173.14.xx driver series, while GeForce4 and older GPUs are supported through the 96.43.xx and 71.86.xx NVIDIA legacy graphics drivers.
Please also note: If you encounter any problems with the 177.78 NVIDIA FreeBSD graphics driver release, please start a new thread and include a detailed description of the problem, reproduction steps and generate/attach an nvidia-bug-report.log file (please see http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=46678 for details).