Nvidia releases Linux driver version 180.29 - 12/02/2009 by Andrew The big news is the added support for OpenGL 3.0 for GeForce 8 series and newer GPUs, though I'm hoping that this one works nicely with X.Org server 1.6 (coming soon to an Ubuntu 9.04 near you). The release notes from Nvidia: * Added support for the following GPUs: o GeForce 9300 GE o Quadro NVS 420 * Added support for OpenGL 3.0 for GeForce 8 series and newer GPUs. * Fixed a bug that caused VDPAU to display a green screen when using the overlay-based presentation queue with interlaced modes. * Fixed a bug that prevented VDPAU from working correctly after X server restarts on some GPUs. * Improved VDPAU's handling of mode switches; eliminated a crash in its mode switch recovery code and a hang in the blit-based presentation queue. * Fixed a bug that caused VDPAU to crash when using DisplayPort devices. * Fixed a potential hang in VDPAU when using the blit-based presentation queue on systems with multiple GPUs not in SLI mode. * Implemented missing error checking of layer data in VDPAU's VdpVideoMixerRender function. * Improved VDPAU's handling of setups with multiple GPUs, if a subset of the GPUs cannot be supported due to resource limitations. * Improved GPU video memory management coordination between the NVIDIA X driver and VDPAU. * Fix potential hang in VDPAU when the overlay is already in use. * Improved workstation OpenGL performance. * Fixed an X driver acceleration bug that resulted in Xid errors on GeForce 6 and 7 series GPUs. * Updated the X driver to consider GPUs it does not recognize supported, allowing it to drive some GPUs it previously ignored. * Added the ability to run distribution provided pre- and post-installation hooks to 'nvidia-installer'; please see the 'nvidia-installer' manual page for details. * Updated the X driver's metamode parser to allow mode names with periods (i.e. '.'s). * Fixed a problem in VDPAU that prevented the overlay-based presentation queue from being used on displays connected by component video. * Fixed various problems in VDPAU that caused visual corruption when decoding certain MPEG-2 video streams. * Fixed a crash in VDPAU caused by certain invalid MPEG-2 streams, in 64-bit drivers for some GPUs. * Fixed an X driver performance problem on integrated GPUs. * Fixed a stability problem with OpenGL applications using FSAA. * Fixed an initialization problem that caused some AGP GPUs to be used in PCI compatibility mode. * Fixed a bug that could result in stability problems after changing clock settings via the Coolbits interface. * Fixed a problem with hotkey switching on some recent mobile GPUs. * Worked around a power management regression in and improved compatibility with recent Linux 2.6 kernels.
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