nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 (180.44-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low * New upstream release (LP: #348852). - Added support for the following GPUs: o Quadro FX 3800 o Quadro FX 1800 o Quadro FX 580 o Quadro FX 380 o Quadro NVS 295 o GeForce GT 120 o 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 while running KDE4's Plasma. - 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. - Improved power management support on some systems, such as Hewlett-Packard xw4600 workstations. - 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. - Fixed a bug that caused Autodesk Maya to freeze when overlays are enabled. - Fixed an interaction problem between OpenGL and memory tracking libraries such as MicroQuill SmartHeap. - 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. - 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. - Fixed corruption decoding H.264 clips with pictures where pic_order_cnt_type implies log2_max_pic_order_cnt_lsb_minus4 is not used, on G84, G86, G92, G94, G96, GT200 GPUs. - Update vdpau.h to document exact requirements for VdpDecoderRender bitstream data content. - Fix VDPAU error handling in some unusual low memory situations. - Fix hang in VDPAU in some cases of output mode timing changes. * debian/nvidia-glx-$VER-preinst: - Look for diversions in a more accurate way with grep. * debian/nvidia-glx-$VER-dev.preinst.in: - Make sure that diversions on /usr/lib/libGL.so are only removed and not added (LP: #335621). * debian/nvidia-glx-$VER-dev.links.in: - Do not create a symlink to /usr/lib/libGL.so.#VERSION# in /usr/lib/libGL.so * debian/nvidia-glx-$VER.postrm.in, debian/nvidia-glx-$VER-dev.postrm.in: - pass --ignore-fail-on-non-empty to rmdir * debian/nvidia-glx-$VER-dev.preinst.in: - If /usr/lib/libGL.so is a symlink and already exists then do not create a new one, otherwise create a symlink to /usr/lib/libGL.so.$PKGVER -- Alberto Milone Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:23:32 +0200 nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 (180.37-0ubuntu2) jaunty; urgency=low * Make nvidia-180-libvdpau-dev Architecture: i386 amd64 rather than all. Although it's technically architecture-independent, it's tiny (so archive space waste is minimal) and it's only installable on those two architectures. * Add a binary-indep target (empty), per policy. -- Colin Watson Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:34:59 +0000 nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 (180.37-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low * New upstream release (LP: #335879). - Fixed a problem that caused signals to be blocked in some applications. - 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. - glGetStringi(GL_EXTENSIONS, i) no longer returns NULL in OpenGL 3.0 preview contexts. - 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. - VDPAU updates: o Fixed corruption on some H.264 clips. o Update documentation. o Fixed VC-1 decoding on 64-bit platforms. o Improved handling of invalid H.264 streams. o Fixed a problem that caused surfaces to be marked as visible too early when the blit presentation queue is in use. * nvidia-glx-VER.preinst: - Remove diversion on /usr/lib32/libGL.so.1.2 to /usr/lib32/nvidia/libGL.so.1.2.xlibmesa instead of /usr/lib32/nvidia/libGL.so.1.2.xserver-xorg-core (LP: #333550). * debian.binary/patches/nvidia-rt-compat.patch: - Restore compatibility with -rt kernels. Thanks to Alessio Igor Bogani for the patch. * debian/dkms.conf.in: - Make sure that the patch for -rt kernels is applied only to 2.6.28.x kernels. -- Alberto Milone Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:27:20 +0100 nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 (180.35-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low * New upstream release (LP: #334205). * Added support for the following GPUs: o GeForce GT 120 o GeForce G100 o 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. * VDPAU updates: o VDPAU now supports VC-1/WMV acceleration on all GPUs supported by VDPAU; see the README for details. o Expand the documentation of VDPAU's VdpVideoMixer, in particular regarding how to use the deinterlacing algorithms. Explicitly document "half rate" deinterlacing, which should allow the advanced algorithms to run on more low-end systems. See vdpau.h. o Implement a "skip chroma deinterlace" option in VDPAU, which should allow the advanced deinterlacing algorithms to run on more low-end systems. See vdpau.h. o Enhance VDPAU to correctly handle some forms of corrupt/invalid MPEG streams on some GPUs. o Fix VDPAU to prevent some cases of "display preemption" in the face of missing H.264 reference frames on some GPUs. o Fix VDPAU to correctly handle VC-1 skipped pictures with missing start codes on some GPUs. o Fix 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. o Fix VDPAU wrapper library to print dlerror() messages when problems occur, which will simplify debugging of driver loading issues. -- Alberto Milone (tseliot) Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:49:59 +0100 nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 (180.29-0ubuntu2) jaunty; urgency=low * debian/control.in: - Revert change adding dependency to nvidia-glx-180 on nvidia-180-libvdpau. This would cause any package that built against nvidia-180-libvpdau to depend and build depend on nvidia-glx-180. - Add replaces to nvidia-glx-177 instead. -- Mario Limonciello Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:53:50 -0600 nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 (180.29-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low * New upstream release (LP: #327690). * Fixed a problem in VDPAU that prevented the overlay-based presentation queue from being used on displays connected by component video. * Fixed various problems in VDPAU that caused visual corruption when decoding certain MPEG-2 video streams. * Fixed a crash in VDPAU caused by certain invalid MPEG-2 streams, in 64-bit drivers for some GPUs. * Fixed an X driver performance problem on integrated GPUs. * Fixed a stability problem with OpenGL applications using FSAA. * Fixed an initialization problem that caused some AGP GPUs to be used in PCI compatibility mode. * Fixed a bug that could result in stability problems after changing clock settings via the Coolbits interface. * debian/control.in: add dependency on nvidia-glx-180 to nvidia-180-libvdpau since nvidia-180-libvdpau can't be installed if other nvidia-glx-* packages contain vdpau (LP: #326720). -- Alberto Milone (tseliot) Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:29:09 +0100 nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 (180.27-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low * New upstream release. Supports the new X.org ABI (LP: #308410, #322416) * Added support for the following GPUs: o GeForce GTX 295 o GeForce GTX 285 o GeForce 9300 GE o Quadro NVS 420 * Fixed a bug that caused VDPAU to display a green screen when using the overlay-based presentation queue with interlaced modes. * Fixed a bug that prevented VDPAU from working correctly after X server restarts on some GPUs. * Improved VDPAU's handling of mode switches; eliminated a crash in its mode switch recovery code and a hang in the blit-based presentation queue. * Fixed a bug that caused VDPAU to crash when using DisplayPort devices. * Fixed a potential hang in VDPAU when using the blit-based presentation queue on systems with multiple GPUs not in SLI mode. * Implemented missing error checking of layer data in VDPAU's VdpVideoMixerRender function. * Improved VDPAU's handling of setups with multiple GPUs, if a subset of the GPUs cannot be supported due to resource limitations. * Improved GPU video memory management coordination between the NVIDIA X driver and VDPAU. * Fix potential hang in VDPAU when the overlay is already in use. * Improved workstation OpenGL performance. * Fixed an X driver acceleration bug that resulted in Xid errors on GeForce 6 and 7 series GPUs. * Updated the X driver to consider GPUs it does not recognize supported, allowing it to drive some GPUs it previously ignored. * Added the ability to run distribution provided pre- and post- installation hooks to 'nvidia-installer'; please see the 'nvidia-installer' manual page for details. * Updated the X driver's metamode parser to allow mode names with periods (i.e. '.'s). * Fixed a problem with hotkey switching on some recent mobile GPUs. * worked around a power management regression in and improved compatibility with recent Linux 2.6 kernels. * Added support for OpenGL 3.0 for GeForce 8 series and newer GPUs. * debian/nvidia-glx-180.preinst: - Correct typo in the removal of diversions of /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so * debian/nvidia-glx-180.postrm.in - Do not remove libGL.so (LP: #309116) * debian/nvidia-glx-180-dev.preinst.in: - Add diversion on /usr/lib/libGL.so since (the postrm tries to remove it already) * debian/scriptremove.sh: - Remove from source. -- Alberto Milone (tseliot) Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:36:09 +0100 nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 (180.22-0ubuntu2) jaunty; urgency=low * debian/control.in: - Replaces for both the VDPAU binary packages over the old NV packaging. (LP: #315632) -- Mario Limonciello Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:24:15 -0600 nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 (180.22-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low * New upstream version. First "stable" driver in 180 series. (LP: #315169) * Added support for the following GPUs: o Quadro FX 2700M o GeForce 9400M G o GeForce 9400M o GeForce 9800 GT o GeForce 8200M G o GeForce Go 7700 o GeForce 9800M GTX o GeForce 9800M GT o GeForce 9800M GS o GeForce 9500 GT o GeForce 9700M GT o GeForce 9650M GT o GeForce 9500 GT * Added initial support for PureVideo-like features via the new VDPAU API (see the vdpau.h header file installed with the driver). * Added support for CUDA 2.1. * Added preliminary support for OpenGL 3.0. * Added new OpenGL workstation performance optimizations. * Enabled the glyph cache by default and extended its support to all supported GPUs. * Disabled shared memory X pixmaps by default; see the "AllowSHMPixmaps" option. * Improved X pixmap placement on GeForce 8 series and later GPUs. * Improved stability on some GeForce 8 series and newer GPUs. * Fixed a regression that could result in window decoration corruption when running Compiz using Geforce 6 and 7 series GPUs. (LP: #306605) * Fixed an nvidia-settings crash when xorg.conf contains Device and Screen sections but no ServerLayout section. * Fixed a problem parsing the monitor sync range X config file options. * Fixed a problem with the SDI sync skew controls in nvidia-settings. * Fixed a problem that caused some SDI applications to hang or crash. * Added support for SDI full-range color. (LP: #218736) * Improved compatibility with recent Linux kernels. * debian/rules: - Create patches directory in case it wasn't present in orig.tar.gz -- Mario Limonciello Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:26:09 -0600 nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 (180.18-0ubuntu2) jaunty; urgency=low * debian/control: - Add versioned dependency for libvdpau. -- Mario Limonciello Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:59:22 -0600 nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 (180.18-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low [ Thomas Cheutz ] * Add driver 180.18 (LP: #307791) * Fixed an X server hang rendering very large fonts. * Added a check to nvidia-installer to not consider Compiz's libglx.so a conflicting X extension library. * VDPAU updates: o Relaxed restrictions on the number of H.264 references frames. o Fixed corruption problems in some video bitstreams. o Fixed a problem that prevented the presentation queue from working in some multi-display or multi-screen configurations when using overlay based presentation. [ Alexey Borzenkov ] * Fix false positive when generating modaliases [ Mario Limonciello ] * debian/control: - Introduce nvidia-180-libvdpau and nvidia-180-libvdpau-dev packages so that applications will be able to build depend and depend on libvdpau without needing to depend on nvidia driver itself. * debian/rules: - Install VDPAU headers and libraries into appropriate packages. - Don't run debhelper commands with -s as arch independent packages are ignored. -- Mario Limonciello Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:58:13 -0600 nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 (180.11-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low * Add driver 180.11: * Added support for the following new GPUs: o GeForce 9400M * Fixed font corruption on GeForce 6 and 7 series GPUs when the GlyphCache setting is enabled. * Fixed a memory leak problem when the GlyphCache setting is enabled. * Added support for GVO full-range color. * Fixed a problem parsing the monitor sync range X config file options. * Improved VDPAU error detection and reporting. * Improved VDPAU support for some video bitstreams. -- Alberto Milone (tseliot) Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:07:30 +0100 nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 (180.08-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low * Add driver 180.08 (LP: #297543): * Added support for the following new GPUs: o Quadro NVS 450 o Quadro FX 370 LP o Quadro FX 5800 o Quadro FX 4800 o Quadro FX 470 o Quadro CX * Added preliminary support for OpenGL 3.0. * Improved VDPAU error recovery on some GPUs. * Added support for CUDA 2.1. * Added initial support for PureVideo-like features on Linux via the new VDPAU API (see the vdpau.h header file installed with the driver). * Added new workstation performance optimizations. * Enabled the X Render "GlyphCache" by default. * Disabled shared memory X pixmaps by default; see the “AllowSHMPixmaps" option. * Fixed a regression that could result in window decoration corruption when running Compiz using Geforce 6 and 7 series GPUs. * Improved X pixmap placement on GeForce 8 series and later GPUs. * Improved compatibility with recent Linux kernels. * Improved stability on some GeForce 8 series and newer GPUs. * Add diversions on /usr/lib/libGL.so.1, /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2, /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so without checking their existence in Ubuntu 32 bit too (LP: #287470) * Remove quotation marks from the SOURCES varialble in nvidia-VER-kernel-source.postinst * Switch to DKMS patching system (in debian/rules) so as to have different patches for different kernel versions -- Alberto Milone (tseliot) Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:34:22 +0100