- Fixed a regression in 256.29 where Performance Level clock frequencies were reported incorrectly in nvidia-settings.
- Fixed a 3D Vision Stereo bug that caused the stereo glasses to not toggle when the flat panel was not running at its native mode timings.
- Fixed a bug that caused nvidia-settings to crash when rendering its thermal gauge widget if the range of valid values for the thermal
sensor was empty.
- Fixed a bug which prevented use of high performance PowerMizer levels on systems with certain ACPI configurations.
- Fixed a bug that caused non-primary Fermi GPUs to fail to initialize framebuffer memory. This caused a variety of symptoms, up to and
including system hangs.
- Added unofficial GLX protocol support (i.e., for GLX indirect rendering) for the following OpenGL extensions:
GL_ARB_blend_func_extended
GL_ARB_draw_buffers_blend
GL_ARB_sample_shading
GL_ARB_timer_query
GL_EXT_draw_buffers2
GL_EXT_separate_shader_objects
GL_NV_explicit_multisample
GL_NV_transform_feedback
- Improved Thermal Settings reporting in nvidia-settings to accurately reflect hardware configurations with multiple thermal sensors.
- Fixed an interaction problem between Compiz and 'screen-scraping' VNC servers like x11vnc and vino that caused the screen to stop updating. Fixes Launchpad bug #353126.
- Enhanced VDPAU to add basic support for Xinerama. VDPAU will now operate on a single physical X screen under Xinerama. See the README for more details.
- Enhanced VDPAU's handling of corrupt clips of all formats on GPUs with VDPAU feature set C to be at least as good as on GPUs with VDPAU feature set B. This significantly improves various clips provided by nvnews.net user eamiller.
- Fixed a bug in Xv attribute handling that caused hue, saturation,brightness, and contrast values to be misapplied when using an Xv overlay adaptor.
- Fixed a bug in the XvMC driver that prevented it from working on systems with AGP graphics cards.
- Enhanced VDPAU to clear all VdpVideoSurfaces to black when allocated.This provides more consistent results when using a surface as a reference when no prior decode operation has written to that surface.In turn, this improves the results of decoding some corrupt streams,such as "p_only_no_play" from ffmpeg bug 1124.
- Implemented new APIs to allow sharing VDPAU surfaces with OpenGL andCUDA. The OpenGL extension is GL_NV_vdpau_interop. For CUDA, please
see the documentation in the CUDA toolkit for details.
- Worked around a bug where the combination of a GPU with VDPAU feature set A together with specific motherboard chipsets could cause visible corruption when decoding some MPEG-2 streams
- Fixed a bug that prevented the VDPAU overlay-based presentation queue from being used more than a few hundred times per X server invocation.
- Renamed the driver file libGLcore.so.VERSION to libnvidia-glcore.so.VERSION, as a small step towards reducing the filename collisions between NVIDIA's and MESA's OpenGL implementations.This driver file is used by NVIDIA's libGL.so and libglx.so, and should never be used directly by applications.
- Changed the SONAME of libnvidia-glcore.so.VERSION,libnvidia-tls.so.VERSION, and libnvidia-compiler.so.VERSION to be ".so.VERSION", rather than ".so.1".These driver files are only used by other NVIDIA driver components, and are only intended to be usedby components of the matching NVIDIA driver version.
- Removed the "-pkg#" suffix from the NVIDIA Linux .run files.The packages are now simply named "NVIDIA-Linux-ARCH-VERSION.run".On Linux-x86_64, a package which omits the 32-bit compatibility libraries is also available: "NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-VERSION-no-compat32.run"
- Simplified the directory structure of the Linux extracted package; most driver files are now just contained within the top level directory of the package.Pass the '--list' option to the .run file for details.
- Removed precompiled kernel interfaces from the NVIDIA Linux-x86 .run file; these were ancient and had not been updated in years.Going forward, NVIDIA does not plan to provide precompiled kernel interfaces with the Linux .run files.However, nvidia-installer and the .run file will retain the ability for users to add their own precompiled kernel interfaces via the '--add-this-kernel' .run file option.
- Compressed the nvidia-settings, nvidia-installer, and nvidia-xconfig tarballs with bzip2, rather than gzip.
Note that many Linux distributions provide their own packages of the
NVIDIA Linux Graphics Driver in the distribution's native package
management format. This may interact better with the rest of your
distribution's framework, and you may want to use this rather than
NVIDIA's official package.
Also note that SuSE users should read the SuSE NVIDIA Installer
HOWTO before downloading the driver.
Installation instructions: Once you have downloaded the driver,
change to the directory containing the driver package and install the
driver by running, as root, sh ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-256.35-pkg1.run
One of the last installation steps will offer to update your
X configuration file. Either accept that offer, edit your X
configuration file manually so that the NVIDIA X driver will be used,
or run nvidia-xconfig
See the README for more detailed instructions.
GeForce 400 series:
GTX 470, GTX 480, GTX 465
GeForce 300 series:
310, GT 330, GT 340, GT 320
GeForce 300M series:
GT 325M, GTS 360M, 305M, GT 335M, 310M, GT 330M, GTS 350M, GTS 250M
GeForce 200 series:
GTX 280, 205, GT 220, GTS 250, GTX 295, G210, GTX 275, GT 230, GTX 285, GTX 260, 210, GTS 240, GT 240
GeForce 200M series:
GTS 260M, GTX 280M, GT 240M, GTX 285M, GTX 260M, GT 220M, G210M, GT 230M
GeForce 100 series:
GT 120, GT 130, GT 140, G 100
GeForce 100M series:
G 103M, GT 130M, G 102M, G 110M, GT 120M, G 105M
GeForce 9 series:
9600 GSO, 9300 SE, 9800 GX2, 9300 GE, 9300, 9800 GTX/GTX+, 9300 GS, 9800 GT, 9500 GT, 9400, 9200, 9500 GS, 9600 GSO 512, 9600 GS, 9600 GT, 9100, 9400 GT
GeForce 9M series:
9800M GS, 9400M G, 9800M GTX, 9200M GS, 9800M GTS, 9700M GT, 9500M G, 9400M, 9800M GT, 9300M G, 9100M G, 9650M GT, 9300M GS, 9650M GS, 9700M GTS, 9500M GS, 9600M GS, 9600M GT
GeForce 8 series:
8600 GS, 8800 GS, 8400 GS, 8500 GT, 8400, 8200 / nForce 730a, 8300, 8800 Ultra, 8200, 8800 GT, 8800 GTS 512, 8600 GT, 8800 GTS, 8400 SE, 8800 GTX, 8600 GTS, 8100 / nForce 720a, 8300 GS
GeForce 8M series:
8200M G, 8700M GT, 8400M GS, 8800M GS, 8400M GT, 8800M GTX, 8400M G, 8600M GT
GeForce 7 series:
7300 GT, 7950 GT, 7550 LE, 7600 LE, 7800 SLI, 7100 / NVIDIA nForce 630i, 7300 SE / 7200 GS, 7500 LE, 7150 / NVIDIA nForce 630i, 7900 GT/GTO, 7300 GS, 7800 GTX, 7650 GS, 7100 / NVIDIA nForce 620i, 7025 / NVIDIA nForce 630a, 7600 GS, 7300 LE, 7800 GS, 7600 GT, 7100 GS, 7900 GS, 7350 LE, 7050 / NVIDIA nForce 630i, 7050 / NVIDIA nForce 610i, 7950 GX2, 7050 PV / NVIDIA nForce 630a, 7900 GTX
GeForce Go 7 series:
Go 7800 GTX, Go 7900 GTX, Go 7900 GS, Go 7950 GTX
GeForce 6 series:
6600 GT, 6200 A-LE, 6800 XT, 6250, 6150, 6200, 6200 LE, 6100, 6150SE nForce 430, 6200 TurboCache, 6150 LE, 6200SE TurboCache, 6100 nForce 405, 6700 XL, 6150LE / Quadro NVS 210S, 6600 LE, 6800 GS/XT, 6600, 6600 VE, 6800 GT, 6800 LE, 6500, 6100 nForce 420, 6800, 6100 nForce 400, 6610 XL, 6800 Ultra, 6800 XE, 6800 GS
Quadro FX series:
FX 4500 X2, FX 3500, FX 4700 X2, FX 4600, FX 1500, FX 3800, FX 4000, FX 3400/4400, FX 560, FX 4800, FX 3450, FX 4500, FX 370 Low Profile, FX 540, FX 5800, FX 580, FX 570, FX 5600, FX 1400, FX 350, FX 380, FX 1700, FX 550, FX 1800, FX 370, FX 3700, CX, FX 5500
Quadro FX Notebook series:
FX 360M, FX 2700M, FX 1700M, FX 1600M, FX 370M, FX 3600M, FX 570M
Quadro NVS series:
NVS 290, NVS 210, NVS 285, NVS 295, NVS 450, NVS 440, NVS 420, NVS 280
ION series:
ION
GPU Computing Processor series:
Tesla C2050, Tesla C870, Tesla M2050, Tesla C1060
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