Linux Display Driver - x86
Version: 177.67
Operating System: Linux x86
Release Date: August 19, 2008
Release Highlights
* Added support for the following new GPUs:
o GeForce GTX 260
o GeForce GTX 280
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* Removed an old workaround that caused incorrect fake Xinerama information to be reported after enabling a second TwinView display.
* Fixed the subpicture component order reported by the NVIDIA X driver's XvMC implementation.
* 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.
* Improved compatibility with recent Linux 2.6 kernels.
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