** Summary changed:
- update request: nVidia ver 180.25, stable
+ update request: nVidia ver 180.27, stable
** Description changed:
Please upgrade the repositories for nvidia-glx-180 from 180.22 to
- 180.25.
+ 180.27.
- Release Highlights:
+ 180.25 Release Highlights:
* 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.
See http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=1914053
It is reported that this version fixes suspend / resume for the 180
series (Bug 306315).
+
+ 180.27 Release Highlights:
+
+ Added support for OpenGL 3.0 for GeForce 8 series and newer GPUs.
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update request: nVidia ver 180.27, stable
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/322416
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