[PC-BSD Testing] NVidia Driver 185.18.14 Release June 5th

[Arthur]

For all the NVidia people.

FreeBSD Display Driver – x86

Version: 185.18.14
Operating System: FreeBSD x86
Release Date: : June 05, 2009

Release Highlights:
    * Modified VDPAU to dlopen libpthread.so (on 
all platforms), to avoid conflicts between the 
current libc and a compat libpthread.
    * 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.
    * Added support for new horizontal interlaced 
and checkerboard passive stereo modes.
    * 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".

Pre-Installation Notes
    * If you are using FreeBSD 6.x, you will need 
to make sure that the 'compat5x' package is installed.
    * The 'nvidia-settings' utility can be built 
from source (available from 
<http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/nvidia-settings/nvidia-settings-1.0.tar.gz>http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/nvidia-settings/nvidia-settings/nvidia-settings-185.18.14.tar.gz) 
if the binary included in the 185.18.14.tar.gz 
package doesn't work (e.g. due to a ports/ library version conflict).

To download and install the drivers, follow the steps below:

STEP 1: Review the 
<http://www.nvidia.com/object/nv_swlicense.html>NVIDIA Software License.
You will need to accept this license prior to downloading any files.

STEP 2: Review Documentation
<http://us.download.nvidia.com/freebsd/185.18.14/README/index.html>README 
- FreeBSD installation and configuration information.

STEP 3: Download the driver
<http://us.download.nvidia.com/freebsd/185.18.14/NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-185.18.14.tar.gz>NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-185.18.14.tar.gz

STEP 4: Check dependencies
The dependencies are listed in the README.

STEP 5: Install
See the 
<http://us.download.nvidia.com/freebsd/185.18.14/README/index.html>README 
for detailed installation instructions. If you 
have any questions or problems, please check the 
<http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=47>NVIDIA 
FreeBSD Discussion forum. If you don't find an 
answer to your question there, you can send email 
(in English) to 
<mailto:freebsd-gfx-bugs at nvidia.com>freebsd-gfx-bugs at nvidia.com. 
When emailing 
<mailto:freebsd-gfx-bugs at nvidia.com>freebsd-gfx-bugs at nvidia.com 
please attach an nvidia-bug-report.log, which is 
generated by running "nvidia-bug-report.sh". 
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