Solaris Display Driver ? x64/x86 Version: 177.80 Operating System: Solaris x64/x86 Release Date: October 7, 2008
Release Highlights Added support for the following new GPUs: nForce 780a SLI nForce 750a SLI Quadro FX 770M Quadro NVS 160M Quadro NVS 150M - Improved support for RENDER masks, as well as RENDER repeating modes and transformations, for video memory pixmaps. - Improved support for RENDER operations with the same source and destination; this should performance in some situations, e.g. when dragging Plasma applets in KDE4. - Improved GPU video memory management coordination between the NVIDIA X driver and OpenGL implementation; this should improve performance with e.g. the KDE4 OpenGL compositing manager. - Added an 'AllowSHMPixmaps' X configuration option, which can be used to prevent applications from using shared memory pixmaps; the latter may cause some optimizations in the NVIDIA X driver to be disabled. - Fixed a regression that caused the 'Auto' SLI X option setting to not enable SLI. - Fixed a bug that caused system hangs when using the NV-CONTROL interface to change GPU clock frequencies. - Added support for DisplayPort display devices (including 30-bit devices). Fixed a bug that resulted in GPU errors when changing the TwinView display configuration while using Compiz. - Further improved the error recovery paths taken in case of GPU command stream corruption. - Updated mode validation, in cases when no EDID is detected, such that 1024x768 @ 60Hz and 800x600 @ 60Hz are allowed, rather than just 640x480 @ 60Hz. - Removed an old workaround that caused incorrect Xinerama information to be reported after enabling a second TwinView display. - Fixed corruption when using SLI in SFR mode with OpenGL-based composite managers. - Fixed the subpicture component order reported by the NVIDIA X driver's XvMC implementation. - Added a workaround for broken EDIDs provided by some Acer AL1512 monitors. - Fixed a bug that caused intermittent kernel panics when stress testing attach/detach paths. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
