12 March, 2005 by Alessandro Armeno.

Categoria: Linux 64-Bit

Vari aggiornamenti per i driver delle vga Nvidia

Nella giornata di ieri Nvidia ha rilasciato i driver per le sue vga per Linux64 e Windows Xp x64. Di seguito vi riportiamo i changelog:


Linux Display Driver 1.0-7167

• Support for GeForce 6200 with TurboCache™ GPUs


• Improved OpenGL workstation performance.


• Added support for XRandR rotation; see Appendix W in the text README.


• 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.


• Documented change_page_attr problems with x86_64 2.6 kernels; please see the known issue "The X86-64 platform (AMD64/EM64T) and 2.6 kernels" in the text README


• 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.

Windows XP Professional x64 driver 71.84

• Support for the GeForce 6 series GPUs


• Robust HDTV Display Setup and adjustments


• Multi-Display support for Windows Remote Desktop


• Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0c and OpenGL® 1.5 support