[PC-BSD Testing] NVidia driver 180.44 released today

[Kris Moore]

Arthur Koziol wrote:
> 
> Version: 180.44
> Operating System: FreeBSD x86
> Release Date: : March 30, 2009
> 
> Release Highlights:
>    * Added support for the following GPUs:
>        * Quadro FX 3800
>        * Quadro FX 3700M
>        * Quadro FX 1800
>        * Quadro FX 580
>        * Quadro FX 380
>        * Quadro NVS 295
>        * GeForce GT 120
>        * GeForce G100
>    * Fixed a problem that could cause Xid errors and display corruption 
> in certain cases when OpenGL is used to render to redirected windows, 
> for example when Java2D is used with the -Dsun.java2d.opengl=true option.
>    * Updated glGetStringi(GL_EXTENSIONS, i) to no longer return NULL in 
> OpenGL 3.0 preview contexts.
>    * Fixed OpenGL crashes when using a large number of texture objects.
>    * Fixed the timestamp reporting in the GL_NV_present_video extension 
> on SDI II with Quadro FX 4800 and 5800.
>    * Fixed a problem that caused the screen to flicker momentarily when 
> OpenGL applications exit unexpectedly on GeForce 6 and 7 series GPUs.
>    * Fixed an X server crash when an X client attempts to draw 
> trapezoids and RenderAccel is disabled.
>    * Improved recovery from certain types of errors.
>    * Added support for RG renderbuffers in OpenGL 3.0.
>    * Added support for OpenGL 3.0 floating-point depth buffers.
>    * Updated VDPAU to support VC-1/WMV acceleration on all GPUs 
> supported by VDPAU; see the README for details.
>    * Fixed VDPAU corruption on some H.264 clips.
>    * Updated VDPAU documentation in the README and in vdpau.h, in 
> particular regarding how to use the deinterlacing algorithms in the 
> VdpVideoMixer object. Explicitly documented "half rate" deinterlacing, 
> which should allow the advanced algorithms to run on more low-end systems.
>    * Implemented a "skip chroma deinterlace" option in VDPAU, which 
> should allow the advanced deinterlacing algorithms to run on more 
> low-end systems. See vdpau.h.
>    * Fixed VDPAU VC-1 decoding on 64-bit platforms.
>    * Updated the VDPAU wrapper library to print dlerror() messages when 
> driver loading problems occur.
>    * Improved VDPAU's handling of some corrupt H.264 streams, and some 
> corrupt/invalid MPEG streams on some GPUs.
>    * Fixed VDPAU to correctly handle WMV "range reduction" on some GPUs. 
> A minor backwards-compatible API change was made for this; see vdpau.h's 
> documentation for structure field VdpPictureInfoVC1.rangered.
>    * Fixed a problem that caused surfaces to be marked as visible too 
> early when the blit presentation queue is in use.
>    * Fixed VDPAU to prevent some cases of "display preemption" in the 
> face of missing H.264 reference frames on some GPUs.
> http://www.nvidia.com/object/freebsd_180.44.html
> 
> Arthur
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> 

Great! I'll get this updated driver thrown into 7.1-Release. I know the 
180.41 fixes some crashes in plasma, so 180.44 should as well :)




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