NVIDIA 1.0-7167

Bernd Kosmahl spam at famkos.net
Mon Mar 21 21:05:15 UTC 2005


hi,

+bumped from 1.0-6629 to 1.0-7167

Runs great on my linux 2.6.11.5 with udev :)
(And I still have the hope that I can use TV/Video IN on day...)

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-7167.html tells us:

Version: 1.0-7167
Operating System: Linux IA32
Release Date: March 11, 2005

Release Highlights:
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. 
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.
[...]

Greetings
-- 
Bernd "beko" Kosmahl
http://duke.famkos.net
beko (a-nospam-t) duke.famkos.net
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          MODULE=NVIDIA
         VERSION=1.0-7167
          SOURCE=$MODULE-Linux-x86-$VERSION-pkg1.run
SOURCE_DIRECTORY=$BUILD_DIRECTORY/$MODULE-Linux-x86-$VERSION-pkg1
   SOURCE_URL[0]=http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/$VERSION/
      SOURCE_VFY=sha1:a7521a4f235feecef8515b3d2fae973a5543db2f
        WEB_SITE=http://www.nvidia.com
         ENTERED=20030804
         UPDATED=20050321
        SHORT="X11 binary drivers provided by NVIDIA for NVIDIA GPUs."

cat << EOF
These are the nvidia provided binary X11 drivers for their graphics
cards. It also has the Linux kernel module needed for all NVIDIA 
cards.
EOF


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