Nvidia Linux drivers 177.80 - 08/10/2008 by Andrew This is what quite a few people have been waiting for! Full change log from Nvidia.com: * Added support for the following new GPUs: - GeForce GTX 260 - GeForce GTX 280 - GeForce 9800 GTX+ - GeForce 9800 GT - GeForce 9700M GTS - GeForce 9500 GT - GeForce 8100P - nForce 780a SLI - nForce 750a SLI - Quadro FX 770M - Quadro NVS 160M - Quadro NVS 150M * Improved support for RENDER masks, as well as RENDER repeating modes and transformations, for video memory pixmaps. * Added accelerated support for RENDER convolution filters for video memory pixmaps on GeForce 8, 9 and GTX GPUs. * Improved support for RENDER operations with the same source and destination; this should performance in some situations, e.g. when dragging Plasma applets in KDE4. * Improved GPU video memory management coordination between the NVIDIA X driver and OpenGL implementation; this should improve performance with e.g. the KDE4 OpenGL compositing manager. * Added an 'AllowSHMPixmaps' X configuration option, which can be used to prevent applications from using shared memory pixmaps; the latter may cause some optimizations in the NVIDIA X driver to be disabled. * Fixed a text rendering performance regression that affected GeForce 6 and 7 series GPUs. * Fixed a regression that caused the 'Auto' SLI X option setting to not enable SLI. * Fixed a bug that caused system hangs when using the NV-CONTROL interface to change GPU clock frequencies. * Added support for DisplayPort display devices (including 30-bit devices). * Resolved various stability problems on GeForce 8, 9 and GTX GPUs, as well as some GeForce 6 and 7 PCI-E GPUs. * Fixed a bug that resulted in GPU errors when changing the TwinView display configuration while using Compiz. * Further improved the error recovery paths taken in case of GPU command stream corruption. * Updated mode validation, in cases when no EDID is detected, such that 1024x768 @ 60Hz and 800x600 @ 60Hz are allowed, rather than just 640x480 @ 60Hz. * Removed an old workaround that caused incorrect Xinerama information to be reported after enabling a second TwinView display. * Fixed corruption when using SLI in SFR mode with OpenGL-based composite managers. * Fixed the subpicture component order reported by the NVIDIA X driver's XvMC implementation. * Added a workaround for broken EDIDs provided by some Acer AL1512 monitors. * Fixed a bug that caused GLXBadDrawable errors to be generated when running more than one OpenGL application with anti-aliasing enabled on GeForce 6 and 7 GPUs, e.g. wine. * Fixed a problem that could result in IRQs being disabled on some multi-GPU SMP configurations. * Worked around cache flushing problems (on some Linux kernels) that caused corruption and stability problems. * Added experimental support for PCI-E MSI. * Fixed a bug that resulted in AGP FW/SBA settings and overrides being applied incorrectly when using the Linux kernel's AGP GART driver. * Improved compatibility with recent Linux 2.6 kernels. * Updated the X driver to consider /sys/class/power_supply when determining the AC power state.
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