nvidia-drivers180

nvidia-drivers180 180.51

NVIDIA kernel and glx drivers for GeForce 6xxx and newer NVIDIA cards

http://www.nvidia.com/

Packager: Fatih Aşıcı

License: NVIDIA

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Release history

ReleaseRelease dateVersionUpdaterComment
62009-04-21180.51Fatih AşıcıBump to new stable release. Release Highlights:
* Added support for the following GPUs:
o GeForce 9600 GSO 512
o GeForce 9400 GT
o GeForce GTS 250
o GeForce GT 130
o GeForce GT 140
* 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 an interaction problem that could corrupt the EDID of the Fujitsu Technology Solutions Celsius H270 notebook's internal flatpanel.
* Fixed occasional X driver memory management performance problems when a composite manager is running.
* 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.
* Improved compatibility with recent Linux kernels.
* Reduced CPU usage of nvidia-smi utility for reporting Quadro Plex information.
* Fixed compatibility problem with LandMark GeoProbe.
52009-04-01180.44Fatih AşıcıBump to new stable release. Beside the bug fixes,
this release also adds support for:
* Quadro FX 3800
* Quadro FX 3700M
* Quadro FX 1800
* Quadro FX 580
* Quadro FX 380
* Quadro NVS 295
* GeForce GT 120
* GeForce G100
42009-03-05180.29Fatih AşıcıBack to the previous release since 180.35 is not stable
32009-02-26180.35Fatih AşıcıBump to new stable release. Changes:

* Added support for the following GPUs:
- GeForce GT 120
- GeForce G100
- Quadro FX 3700M
* Fixed a bug that caused Maya to freeze when overlays are enabled.
* Fixed an interaction problem with some applications that use memory tracking libraries.
* 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.
* A bunch of VDPAU updates.
22009-02-16180.29Fatih AşıcıBump to new stable release. Changes:

* Added support for the following GPUs:
- GeForce GTX 295
- GeForce GTX 285
- GeForce 9300 GE
- Quadro NVS 420
* Added support for OpenGL 3.0 for GeForce 8 series and newer GPUs.
* Various bug fixes.
12009-01-13180.22Fatih AşıcıInitial release for 180.x series drivers

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rt.patch