nVidia Linux Display Driver 352.21

Release Highlights:

• Fixed a problem that caused signals to be blocked in some applications.
• 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.
• glGetStringi(GL_EXTENSIONS, i) no longer returns NULL in OpenGL 3.0 preview contexts.
• 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.
• VDPAU updates:
  • Fixed corruption on some H.264 clips.
  • Update documentation.
  • Fixed VC-1 decoding on 64-bit platforms.
  • Improved handling of invalid H.264 streams.
  • Fixed a problem that caused surfaces to be marked as visible too early when the blit presentation queue is in use.

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Среди основных новшевств, поддержка стандарта OpenGL 3.1.

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ChangeLog:

• 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.

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Release Highlights

• Added support for the following GPUs:
  • GeForce 9600 GSO 512
  • GeForce 9400 GT
  • GeForce GTS 250
  • GeForce GT 140
  • GeForce GT 130
• 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 occasional X driver memory management performance problems when a composite manager is running.
• Improved compatibility with recent Linux kernels.
• Reduced CPU usage of nvidia-smi utility for reporting Quadro Plex information.
• Fixed compatibility problem with LandMark GeoProbe.
• Fixed an interaction problem that could corrupt the EDID of the Fujitsu Technology Solutions Celsius H270 notebook's internal flatpanel.
• 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.

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Выпущена очередная бета версия драйверов Nvidia 185.18.10 в которой исправлено 2 ошибки: крах при работе программы для обработки фотографий Bibble 5 и крах X сервера при запуске композитного оконного менеджера, использующего функции OpenGL. Кроме исправления ошибок, изменен порядок инициализации драйвера и загрузки модуля ядра, добавлена поддержка новых видеорежимов с горизонтальной чересстрочной разверткой и пассивного "шахматного" стерео-режима.

В ветке Nvidia 185.x добавлена поддержка GPU: 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, но прекращена поддержка карт старее GeForce 6xxx.

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• Fixed stability problems with some GeForce 6200/7200/7300 GPUs on multi-core/SMP systems.
• Fixed VGA console restoration on some laptop GPUs.
• Fixed a bug that caused kernel crashes when attempting to initialize NvAGP on Linux/x86-64 kernels built with the CONFIG_GART_IOMMU kernel option.
• Fixed a bug that caused some performance levels to be disabled on certain GeForce 9 series notebooks.
• Fixed an OpenGL driver crash while running Bibble 5.

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Release Highlights

• Improved compatibility with recent Linux kernels.
• 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.
• 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".

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Отмечены следующие улучшения:

• Исправлены некоторые ошибки при работе приложений в Compiz/Beryl, в частности устранены проблемы при работе в Kopete;
• Исправлены нарушения отображения при просмотре/декодировании H.264 и VC-1 на картах с процессором G98 и MCP7;
• Улучшена обработка битых и неправильных байт в H.264 на ядрах G84, G86, G92, G94, G96, или GT200;
• Исправлена проблема, приводившая к падению X-сервера, при переключении консолей;
• Улучшено определение совместимости видеокарты с VDPAU.

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• Добавлены 22 расширения OpenGL (для GLX рендеринга):
  • 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
  • GL_NV_geometry_program4
  • GL_NV_vertex_program
  • GL_NV_parameter_buffer_object
  • GL_NV_vertex_program4
  • 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
• Исправлена ошибка расширений glxGetVideoSyncSGI, glxWaitVideoSyncSGI и glxGetRefreshRateSGI, при работе на нескольких экранах;
• Исправлена ошибка,приводящая к неправильному отображению границ окна, при вращении экрана;
• Исправлена ошибка прорисовки окна, если фон экрана включен в режиме ParentRelative, на версиях X.Org до 1.5 включительно.
• Исправлены некоторые ошибки при работе приложений в Compiz/Beryl, в частности устранены проблемы при работе в Kopete;
• Исправлены нарушения отображения при просмотре/декодировании H.264 и VC-1 на картах с процессором G98 и MCP7;
• Добавлена поддержка GPU PowerMizer режимов, на GeForce 8 или более поздние GPU, поддерживающие переключение режимов производительности.
• Улучшена обработка битых и неправильных байт в H.264 на ядрах G84, G86, G92, G94, G96, или GT200;
• Исправлена проблема, приводившая к падению X-сервера, при переключении консолей;
• Улучшено определение совместимости видеокарты с VDPAU.

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Представлено исправление 18 ошибок, половина из которых связана с поддержкой VDPAU, например, налажена работа с поврежденными H.264 потоками на GPU G84, G86, G92, G94, G96, GT200.

Release highlights since 185.18.14:

• Added code to forcibly terminate long-running CUDA kernels when Ctrl-C is pressed.
• 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 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.
• 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.

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