Tuesday, June 14, 2011

New Linux NVidia Driver

NVidia has been working on a new driver for some time and they even release several Beta release, but now it has been unveiled to public that a new stable version is out. Please welcome 275.09.07. It brings a lot of bug fixes along with new extensions. Here are the highlights:
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.

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