JLP's Blog

A couple of days ago nVidia have released a new version of their graphic drivers for Linux. The new version is 1.0-7167 and these are the release highlights:

• Support for GeForce 6200 with TurboCache™ GPUs
• Improved OpenGL workstation performance
• Added support for XRandR rotation
• Added ExactModeTimingsDVI X config option to give explicit control over the mode timings used on Flat Panels
• Added Xorg dlloader support
• Changed driver behavior such that PAT (Page Attribute Table) is used where possible instead of MTRRs
• Added a workaround for an X server bug with PCI-E GeForce 6800 and GeForce 6600; a fix has been provided to XFree86 and XOrg
• Fixed stability problems on x86_64 PCI-E systems
• Fixed 2D rendering corruption on certain older GPUs
• Improved compatibility with Linux 2.6 kernels
• Fixed compatibility problems with some SWIOTLB em64t systems
• Fixed a bug that triggered error messages of the form:
  "ioctl32(doom.x86:6747): Unknown cmd fd(16) cmd(c0384642){00} arg(ffffc75c) on /dev/nvidiactl"
• Fixed NvAGP incompatibility with recent Linux 2.6 kernels
• Improved interaction with the udev filesystem
• Improved performance of PCI cards on Linux 2.6 systems
• Updated documentation

Download the drivers here:
nVidia Linux drivers 1.0-7167 - 32-bit IA32
nVidia Linux drivers 1.0-7167 - 64-bit AMD64

# posted by Jure "JLP" Repinc @ 3/13/2005 04:14:00 PM