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**AaronP** · 05-28-08, 12:32 PM

Release Highlights:

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.
Fixed a regression causing some GeForce 6100/6150 systems to fail to restore the screen after DPMS cycles.
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 problem that caused TV output on secondary TVs to be black and white on some GPUs.
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.

The 173.14.05 NVIDIA Accelerated FreeBSD Graphics Driver Set for FreeBSD/i386 is available for download via HTTP and FTP.

Please see the README 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 173.14.05 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/nv...3.14.05.tar.gz
# tar zxf nvidia-settings-1.0.tar.gz
# cd nvidia-settings-1.0# gmake
# install nvidia-settings /usr/X11R6/bin

Please note: This NVIDIA FreeBSD graphics driver release supports GeForceFX and newer NVIDIA GPUs, GeForce4 and older GPUs are supported through the 96.43.05 and 71.86.04 NVIDIA legacy graphics drivers.

Please also note: If you encounter any problems with the 173.14.05 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).

05-28-08, 12:32 PM	#1
AaronP NVIDIA Corporation Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 2,487	173.14.05 for FreeBSD i386 released Release Highlights: 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. Fixed a regression causing some GeForce 6100/6150 systems to fail to restore the screen after DPMS cycles. 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 problem that caused TV output on secondary TVs to be black and white on some GPUs. 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. The 173.14.05 NVIDIA Accelerated FreeBSD Graphics Driver Set for FreeBSD/i386 is available for download via HTTP and FTP. Please see the README 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 173.14.05 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/nv...3.14.05.tar.gz # tar zxf nvidia-settings-1.0.tar.gz # cd nvidia-settings-1.0# gmake # install nvidia-settings /usr/X11R6/bin Please note: This NVIDIA FreeBSD graphics driver release supports GeForceFX and newer NVIDIA GPUs, GeForce4 and older GPUs are supported through the 96.43.05 and 71.86.04 NVIDIA legacy graphics drivers. Please also note: If you encounter any problems with the 173.14.05 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).