Changelog
nvidia-graphics-drivers (319.17-1) experimental; urgency=low
* New upstream long lived branch release 319.17 (2013-05-02).
- Fixed a regression that caused multiple BUG messages to be printed in
the kernel log on SMP systems.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the X server to crash when repeatedly
enabling and disabling displays.
- Added support for the following GPUs: GeForce GT 720M, GeForce GT 735M,
GeForce GT 740M, GeForce GT 745M, GeForce GT 750M, GeForce GTX 760M,
GeForce GTX 765M, GeForce GTX 770M, GeForce GTX 775M, GeForce GTX 780M.
- Added nvidia-persistenced, a daemon utility, to the driver package.
nvidia-persistenced can be installed to run on system startup or
manually run to allow the NVIDIA kernel module to keep persistent driver
state allocated when no other user-space NVIDIA driver components are
running. This can improve startup time for other user-space NVIDIA
driver components.
* New upstream beta 319.12 (2013-04-09).
- Added initial support for restoration of efifb consoles on UEFI
systems where the primary display is driven over VGA or TMDS (e.g.
DVI, HDMI, or LVDS).
- Added support for the xorg.conf Monitor section options "Ignore",
"Enable", "Primary", and "Rotate". For example, to rotate a monitor
identified by a specific EDID hash, one could add the following to
/etc/X11/xorg.conf or a file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d:
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "DPY-EDID-ee6cecc0-fa46-0c33-94e0-274313f9e7eb"
Option "Rotate" "left"
EndSection
See the README and the xorg.conf(5) man page for more information.
- Added an Underscan feature in the nvidia-settings X Server
Display Configuration page which allows the configuration of an
underscan border around the ViewPortOut. This feature was
formerly known as Overscan Compensation.
- Added support for the following GPU: GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST.
- Added support for application profiles to the NVIDIA client-side GLX
implementation. See the "Application Profiles" chapter of the README for
more information.
- Added the "PanningTrackingArea" and "PanningBorder" MetaMode attributes.
- Added support for RandR 1.3 panning.
- Improved performance when the Accel option is disabled.
- Added initial support for RandR 1.4 Provider objects with the Source
Output capability, which can be used to render the desktop on an NVIDIA
GPU and display it on an output connected to a provider with the Sink
Output capability, such as an Intel integrated graphics device or a
DisplayLink USB-to-VGA adapter. See the README for details.
- Added nvidia-modprobe, a setuid root utility, to the driver package.
nvidia-modprobe can be used by user-space NVIDIA driver components
to make sure the NVIDIA kernel module is loaded and that the
NVIDIA character device files are present. When possible,
it is recommended to use Linux distribution native mechanisms
for managing kernel module loading and device file creation.
This utility is provided as a fallback to work out-of-the-box in
a distribution-independent way.
- Fixed a memory leak that occurred when destroying a GLX window
but not its associated X window.
- Improved the performance of modesets in cases where the mode
timings remained the same, but other parameters of the mode
configuration, such as the ViewPort or panning domain, changed.
- Fixed an issue with RENDER convolution filters. The driver will
no longer normalize filter kernels before accelerating them.
- Improved debuggability of the NVIDIA OpenGL libraries by
including proper stack unwinding information on all supported
architectures.
- Updated the dkms.conf file and the makefile for the NVIDIA Linux
kernel module to allow DKMS installations on systems with separate
source and output directories.
- Fixed a bug that caused RENDER Pictures to be sampled
incorrectly when using nearest filtering in some cases.
- Added support for the RandR "Border" and "BorderDimensions" Output
properties, which can be used to configure the ViewPortOut of an
RandR output. This is functionally equivalent to the "ViewPortOut"
MetaMode token.
- Fixed a bug where RRGetCrtcInfo could report incorrect size
information when an RandR output has a custom ViewPortIn.
- Further improve performance of some versions of HyperMesh with
Quadro GPUs.
- Added support for dynamic mode management through RandR, e.g. via
the --newmode, --rmmode, and --delmode options in xrandr(1).
- Increased the number of pages that are shareable across multiple
processes in the x86 build of libnvidia-glcore.so, by reducing its
R_386_PC32 relocation count.
- Fixed a bug that caused XVideo applications to receive BadAlloc errors
after VT switches and mode switches that occurred while a composite
manager was running.
- Removed the X driver's support for "CursorShadow".
- Switched .run package compression from gzip to xz. This provides a
higher level of compression.
* Update nv-readme.ids.
* Update symbols control files.
* Refresh use-nv-kernel.o.ARCH.patch. Remove frequently changing context.
* nvidia-glx: Ship nvidia-persistenced.
* nvidia-kernel-{source,dkms}: Provide dummy conftest/patches.h, too.
* Rename package nvidia-cuda-proxy to nvidia-cuda-mps: Upstream has renamed
the programs nvidia-cuda-proxy-* to nvidia-cuda-mps-*.
* Rename metapackage nvidia-glx to nvidia-driver. Add transitional package.
* conftest.h:
- Implement check for drm/drmP.h (319.12).
- Implement new conftest.sh function drm_available (319.12).
-- Andreas Beckmann <email address hidden> Tue, 14 May 2013 01:12:20 +0200
