[PC-BSD Testing] Holy ##%!, NVidia releases monster driver update

[Arthur Koziol]

On 03/03/2010 10:11 AM, Mike Bybee wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Arthur Koziol <A-Koziol at neiu.edu 
> <mailto:A-Koziol at neiu.edu>> wrote:
>
>     http://www.nvidia.com/object/freebsd_195.36.08.html
>
>         * Added support for the following GPUs:
>                 Quadro FX 880M
>         * Fixed a bug that caused screen corruption after an
>           application released a GLX_NV_present_video device.
>         * Fixed an X server crash caused by starting nvidia-settings
>           while X was not on the active VT.
>         * Fixed an nvidia-settings bug that produced many "Bad
>           argument" warning messages when running nvidia-settings
>           --query all.
>         * Fixed a bug that caused G-Sync stereo synchronization to
>           fail sometimes when enabling frame lock.
>         * Fixed a bug that caused OpenGL applications to occasionally
>           crash with "double free or corruption" messages when exiting.
>         * On GPUs with VDPAU feature set A, enhanced VDPAU's handling
>           of some corrupted or incorrectly formatted MPEG-1/2 streams.
>           This solves a reported issue with "0testbad.mpg".
>         * Fixed a bug in the VDPAU video mixer that caused chroma
>           aberrations, and corruption in the right-hand few columns of
>           pixels, when post- processing video surfaces with widths not
>           an exact multiple of 4 pixels.
>         * Fixed a bug that prevented the GPUFanControlState attribute
>           from being set on the nvidia-settings command line.
>         * Fixed a regression that made the "TVStandard" X
>           configuration option cause system hangs with products from
>           the GeForce 6 and 7 series.
>         * Worked around a bug in some AUO laptop flat panels where the
>           native mode in the EDID is invalid, leading to a 640x480
>           desktop repeated six times
>           across the screen.
>         * Increased the maximum number of slices supported by VDPAU
>           for MPEG-2 streams, in order to cope with the region 1 DVD
>           "A Christmas Story".
>         * Added unofficial preliminary support for xorg-server video
>           driver ABI version 7, including xorg-server-1.7.99.2.
>         * Fix the soname of libvdpau_nvidia.so.1 and
>           libvdpau_trace.so.1 to match their filenames.
>         * Fixed a performance regression with non-antialiased text in
>           KDE4.
>         * Enabled GPU acceleration for many RENDER compositing
>           operations that were previously processed in software,
>           including conjoint and disjoint blending
>           modes and component alpha blending.
>         * Added experimental GPU acceleration of the RENDER
>           CompositeTrapezoids operation. This can be enabled at
>           runtime by running:
>                 nvidia-settings -a AccelerateTrapezoids=1 This is only supported on the GeForce GTX series or newer
>         * products. Fixed a bug in the VDPAU overlay-based
>           presentation queue that caused high CPU usage during "put
>           bits" operations when more than two surfaces
>           were queued.
>         * Updated `nvidia-settings --query all` to report all
>           available attributes queryable through all NV-CONTROL target
>           types.
>         * Enhanced the VDPAU blit-based presentation queue to provide
>           values of "first_presentation_time" that have less jitter.
>         * Add support for R16F and RG32F GLXFBConfigs when using
>           GeForce 8 series and higher GPUs.
>         * Added support for A2BGR10 32-bit GLX visuals on 30-bit X
>           screens. These allow some level of window transparency when
>           using 30-bit visuals with GLX and Composite, but they may
>           cause problems with older X servers and/or applications.ARGB
>           GLX visuals can be disabled by adding:
>                 Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "False" to the X
>                 configuration file. 
>         * Fixed a problem that caused DisplayPort devices to behave
>           incorrectly when DPMS power saving mode was triggered.
>         * Updated VDPAU to improve thread concurrency.See the README
>           for details.
>         * Altered NVIDIA X driver behavior in the case that no display
>           devices are connected to the GPU.Previously, in this case,
>           the NVIDIA X driver would pretend a CRT was connected to the
>           GPU. Now, the NVIDIA X driver will not automatically pretend
>           that any CRTs are connected.If the X driver does not detect
>           any connected display devices, the X server will fail to start.
>           To restore the old behavior, use the ConnectedMonitor X
>           configuration option; e.g.,
>                 Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT" Alternatively, if display is not desired, Quadro and Tesla
>           GPU users can enable "NoScanout" mode, which bypasses any
>           mode timing validation or use of display devices; this is
>           configured with:
>                 Option "UseDisplayDevice" "none" 
>         * Disabled software cursors when the driver is operating in
>           "no scanout" (UseDisplayDevice "none") mode.The software
>           cursor image is not visible in remote desktop applications
>           or screenshots anyway, so having software cursor enabled was
>           unnecessary.
>         * Changed glXSwapBuffers() behavior for a pixmap such that it
>           is now a no-op in the direct rendering case in order to
>           match the indirect case and comply with the GLX spec.
>           Previously, calling glXSwapBuffers() on pixmaps in the
>           direct case would swap the pixmap's buffers if the pixmap
>           was double buffered.
>         * Modified the installation location and names of internal
>           VDPAU libraries to conform to conventions and Debian
>           packaging guidelines. New versions of libvdpau expect this
>           layout. Compatibility with old versions of libvdpau is
>           maintained with symlinks.
>         * Fixed a bug that could cause errors in graphical
>           applications run after a previous application using VDPAU
>           and OpenGL. This behaviour was observed when running Gwenole
>           Beauchesne's hwdecode-demos application.
>         * Modified vdpau.h to increment VDPAU_VERSION, to reflect the
>           fact that new features have been added in the past. Also,
>           add the new define VDPAU_INTERFACE_VERSION.
>         * Fixed a periodic temporary hang in the VDPAU blit-based
>           presentation queue.
>         * Fixed a problem that caused resolution limitations or
>           corruption on certain DisplayPort devices such as the Apple
>           24" Cinema display or some DisplayPort to VGA adapters.
>         * Disabled the UseEvents option for GeForce 8 series and
>           higher GPUs due to a problem that causes occasional short
>           hangs.It will be re-enabled when that bug has been tracked
>           down and fixed.
>         * VDPAU now allows multiple streams to be decoded at once,
>           without the need to set any environment variables.
>
>
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> Have you tried it yet? Does it work with PowerDevil? Having to set my 
> laptop power saving settings via script is lame :D
>
> -- 
> Thanks,
> Mike Bybee

Mike,

Nope. I was passing the info along to others since I happened to notice 
it today.

Arthur
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