Release Highlights:
- 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.
The
173.14.12 NVIDIA Accelerated FreeBSD Graphics Driver Set for
FreeBSD/i386 is available for download via
HTTP.
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
173.14.12 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...3.14.12.tar.gz
# tar zxf nvidia-settings-173.14.12.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.xx and
71.86.xx NVIDIA legacy graphics drivers.
Please also note: If you encounter any problems with the
173.14.12 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).