Nvidia Solaris Display Driver Changelog

What's new in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 440.44

Dec 12, 2019

Added support for the following GPU:
Quadro T2000 with Max-Q Design
Fixed a bug that caused applications running directly on a display (such as VR HMDs) to tear when a G-SYNC or G-SYNC Compatible monitor is plugged in the system.

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 440.36 (Nov 22, 2019)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 440.31 (Nov 4, 2019)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 430.50 (Sep 13, 2019)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 435.21 (Aug 30, 2019)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 430.40 (Jul 29, 2019)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 430.34 (Jul 12, 2019)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 430.26 (Jun 11, 2019)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 430.14 (May 14, 2019)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 418.74 (May 8, 2019)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 418.56 (Mar 21, 2019)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 418.43 (Feb 25, 2019)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 415.27 (Jan 15, 2019)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 415.25 (Dec 18, 2018)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 415.18 (Nov 22, 2018)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 410.73 (Oct 29, 2018)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 390.87 (Sep 7, 2018)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 396.54 (Aug 22, 2018)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 396.45 (Jul 20, 2018)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 390.77 (Jul 16, 2018)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 390.67 (Jun 6, 2018)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 390.59 (May 16, 2018)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 390.42 (Mar 12, 2018)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 387.34 (Dec 29, 2017)

Fixed a regression that could cause driver errors when setting modes that include DisplayPort Multi-Stream Transport devices.
Fixed a regression that caused some display connectors on some GPUs to not report a connected HDMI or DisplayPort audio device even if the connected monitor supports audio.
Fixed a bug that sometimes prevented the "Reset Default Configuration" button in the nvidia-settings "ECC Settings" page from being available when the ECC configuration is set to a non-default state.
Fixed a bug that caused nvidia-settings to enforce overly aggressive limits on display positions in the "X Server Display Configuration" page under some circumstances.
Fixed a bug that could cause the "Enable Base Mosaic (Surround)" checkbox in nvidia-settings to disappear when an X screen, rather than a display, is selected in the "X Server Display Configuration" page.
Fixed a race condition that could lead to crashes when OpenGL programs manipulated vertex buffer objects from multiple threads simultaneously.
Fixed a bug that caused the nvidia-settings control panel to retain some settings that had been applied, but not confirmed. This resulted in unwanted settings being applied to subsequent settings changes.
Added support for YUV 4:2:0 compression for monitors connected via DisplayPort in configurations where either the display or GPU is incapable of driving the current mode in RGB 4:4:4. See the description in the "Programming Modes" appendix for details.
Added an "AllowGSYNC" MetaMode attribute that can be used to disable G-SYNC completely. This can be use to allow enabling features that are incompatible with G-SYNC, such as Ultra Low Motion Blur or Frame Lock.
Tiled monitors formerly resulted in a separate Xinerama screen being reported for each tile. They will now, by default, be combined into a single large Xinerama screen.
The individual panels in a tiled monitor will now be arranged based on the layout information provided in the monitor's EDID. This can be overridden by either manually specifying offsets or using the "MetaModeOrientation" option.
Disabled interlaced modes over DisplayPort by default due to incomplete support in the GPU. Added "AllowDpInterlaced" mode validation token to override this default behavior and allow interlaced modes over DisplayPort protocol anyway.
Fixed a bug that could cause some eDP G-SYNC displays to flicker at low refresh rates.
Fixed a bug that artificially limited the maximum pixel clock to 300 MHz when using certain more capable DisplayPort to HDMI adapters.
Fixed a bug that caused incorrect PCI topology reporting in nvidia-smi on Intel Skylake systems.

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 387.22 (Oct 31, 2017)

Fixed a regression that could cause driver errors when setting modes that include DisplayPort Multi-Stream Transport devices.
Fixed a regression that caused some display connectors on some GPUs to not report a connected HDMI or DisplayPort audio device even if the connected monitor supports audio.
Fixed a bug that sometimes prevented the "Reset Default Configuration" button in the nvidia-settings "ECC Settings" page from being available when the ECC configuration is set to a non-default state.
Fixed a bug that caused nvidia-settings to enforce overly aggressive limits on display positions in the "X Server Display Configuration" page under some circumstances.
Fixed a bug that could cause the "Enable Base Mosaic (Surround)" checkbox in nvidia-settings to disappear when an X screen, rather than a display, is selected in the "X Server Display Configuration" page.
Fixed a race condition that could lead to crashes when OpenGL programs manipulated vertex buffer objects from multiple threads simultaneously.
Fixed a bug that caused the nvidia-settings control panel to retain some settings that had been applied, but not confirmed. This resulted in unwanted settings being applied to subsequent settings changes.
Added support for YUV 4:2:0 compression for monitors connected via DisplayPort in configurations where either the display or GPU is incapable of driving the current mode in RGB 4:4:4. See the description in the "Programming Modes" appendix for details.
Added an "AllowGSYNC" MetaMode attribute that can be used to disable G-SYNC completely. This can be use to allow enabling features that are incompatible with G-SYNC, such as Ultra Low Motion Blur or Frame Lock.
Tiled monitors formerly resulted in a separate Xinerama screen being reported for each tile. They will now, by default, be combined into a single large Xinerama screen.
The individual panels in a tiled monitor will now be arranged based on the layout information provided in the monitor's EDID. This can be overridden by either manually specifying offsets or using the "MetaModeOrientation" option.
Disabled interlaced modes over DisplayPort by default due to incomplete support in the GPU. Added "AllowDpInterlaced" mode validation token to override this default behavior and allow interlaced modes over DisplayPort protocol anyway.
Fixed a bug that could cause some eDP G-SYNC displays to flicker at low refresh rates.
Fixed a bug that artificially limited the maximum pixel clock to 300 MHz when using certain more capable DisplayPort to HDMI adapters.
Fixed a bug that caused incorrect PCI topology reporting in nvidia-smi on Intel Skylake systems.

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 384.59 (Jul 25, 2017)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 381.22 (May 9, 2017)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 375.66 (May 4, 2017)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 378.13 (Feb 14, 2017)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 375.26 (Dec 14, 2016)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 375.20 (Nov 18, 2016)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 370.28 (Sep 8, 2016)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 367.44 (Aug 23, 2016)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 367.35 (Jul 15, 2016)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 367.27 (Jun 13, 2016)

Added support for VDPAU Feature Set H to the NVIDIA VDPAU driver. GPUs with VDPAU Feature Set H are capable of hardware-accelerated decoding of 8192x8192 (8k) H.265/HEVC video streams.
Fixed a bug that caused the X server to sometimes skip displaying Vulkan frames when the Composite extension is enabled.
Fixed a bug that would cause OpenGL applications to crash when creating a context on one X display connection, then making it current with no associated drawable on another X display connection. This fixes a crash when starting some versions of Matlab.
Fixed OpenGL presentation to SDI through the GLX_NV_video_out and GLX_NV_present_video extensions, which was broken by the introduction of the nvidia-modeset kernel module in 358.09.
Fixed a bug that caused an incorrect offset to be applied when using the full composition pipeline on a display whose image has both a rotation and a ViewportOut offset applied.
Fixed a bug that could cause nvidia-settings to crash on some systems when responding to events such as hotplugging DisplayPort devices.
Fixed a bug that could cause crashes in OpenGL applications which use glTextureView() with a non-zero minlevel.
Enhanced the Display Device information page in nvidia-settings with additional information for DisplayPort devices to reflect attributes which are specific to DisplayPort connections.
Fixed a bug which could cause deleted application profiles to appear when editing rules in the nvidia-settings control panel.
Fixed a bug that caused hangs when a G-SYNC monitor is unplugged and a non-G-SYNC monitor is connected while G-SYNC is active.
Fixed a bug that caused "nvidia-modeset: ERROR: GPU:0: Activating G-SYNC failed" to be printed to the system log if a G-SYNC monitor is connected and stereo is enabled in xorg.conf on a configuration that doesn't support it.
Added the NV_robustness_video_memory_purge OpenGL extension, which
allows applications to know when a mode switching or power event purged the contents of FBOs and BOs residing in video memory.
Fixed a bug that prevented HDMI 2.0 4K monitors from waking up from sleep or hot-replug.

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 361.45.11 (May 24, 2016)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 364.19 (Apr 22, 2016)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 361.42 (Mar 30, 2016)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 361.28 (Feb 10, 2016)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 358.16 (Nov 21, 2015)

Fixed a regression, introduced in 358.09, that caused incorrect rendering of OpenGL stereo applications in combination with Quadro Sync on certain GPUs.
Fixed a regression, introduced in 358.09, that caused OpenGL stereo applications to hang when SLI AFR, SFR, or SLIAA modes were enabled.
Fixed a regression, introduced in 358.09, that caused the system to hang while launching OpenGL applications when some SLI Mosaic topologies were in use.
Fixed a bug that could cause some G-SYNC monitors to flicker on Kepler-based GPUs when running at low frame rates.
Fixed a regression that could cause OpenGL or VDPAU applications to hang in Xinerama layouts which include multiple X screens that are driven by the same GPU.
Added a fallback to allow GLX to function when UNIX domain socket communication is blocked between NVIDIA client-side GLX and NVIDIA server-side GLX. For example, the default SELinux policy on Fedora 22 prevents the NVIDIA 358.09 GLX driver from working in GDM3:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1271401
Fixed a regression from 358.09 that caused G-SYNC monitors configured to use 3D Vision stereo to go blank and report an unsupported signal.
Fixed a regression from 358.09 that caused OpenGL applications that failed to negotiate permission to perform glXSwapBuffers via flipping to stop updating the screen. This was triggered on Fedora 22 where the SELinux system policy prevents gnome-shell from communicating with the X server.
Now, OpenGL applications that fail to negotiate flipping will fall back to glXSwapBuffers via blitting.
See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1271401 for more details.
Fixed a regression that reduced OpenGL performance on headless X server configurations.
Fixed a memory leak that occurred after destroying a GLXWindow which still has the current context attached to it.
Fixed a bug which caused EGL pbuffers to be created with both a front and back buffer, instead of a back buffer only, as is required for EGL.
Added a new kernel module, nvidia-modeset.ko. This new driver component works in conjunction with the nvidia.ko kernel module to program the display engine of the GPU.
nvidia-modeset.ko does not provide any new user-visible functionality or interfaces to third party applications. However, in a later release, nvidia-modeset.ko will be used as a basis for the modesetting interface provided by the kernel's direct rendering manager (DRM).
Reduced flickering and delays when transitioning into or out of G-SYNC mode. As part of this change, monitors that have G-SYNC indicators in their on-screen displays will now always report that they are in G-SYNC mode. The OpenGL G-SYNC visual indicator can be enabled in nvidia-settings to determine when G-SYNC is actually being used.
GLX protocol for the following OpenGL extension from OpenGL 3.0 has been promoted from unofficial to ARB approved official status:
GL_EXT_draw_buffers2
GLX protocol for the following OpenGL 3.0 commands:
BindBufferRangeNV
BindBufferBaseNV
BeginTransformFeedbackNV
EndTransformFeedbackNV
GetTransformFeedbackVaryingEXT
TransformFeedbackVaryingsEXT
which are part of the following extensions:
GL_NV_transform_feedback
GL_EXT_transform_feedback
has been promoted from unofficial to ARB approved official status.
With the above changes, GLX protocol for OpenGL 3.0 has been promoted from unofficial to ARB approved official status.
Added a new system memory allocation mechanism for large allocations in the OpenGL driver. This mechanism allows unmapping the allocation from the process when it is not in use, making more virtual address space available to the application. It is enabled by default on 32 bit OpenGL applications with Linux 3.11+ and glibc 2.19+. Memory allocated this way will consume space in /dev/shm. Setting the environment variable __GL_DevShmPageableAllocations to 2 will disable this feature
Added support for OpenGL 4.3.
Added support for X.Org xserver ABI 20 (xorg-server 1.18).

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 352.63 (Nov 19, 2015)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 355.11 (Sep 1, 2015)

Added support for the following GPUs:
Quadro M4000
Quadro M5000
Fixed a bug that caused applications using OpenCL or CUDA with OpenGL interopability to crash when using GLX indirect rendering.
Fixed a bug that caused VDPAU to only display the top half of a video frame when decoding and displaying H.265/HEVC encoded video streams.
Fixed a bug that could cause GPU exceptions when using glReadPixels() on the depth or stencil buffers of multisample windows while resizing or moving the windows.
Fixed a bug that could cause data from one texture level to overwrite data from the next lowest level, when creating a texture view that did not include the higher of the two levels.
Fixed a bug that could cause the nvidia-settings control panel to crash when updating the display layout.
Corrected some erroneous reporting of support for GLX extensions: several extensions were being reported as supported for indirect GLX, which were in fact only supported under direct rendering.
Added support for the following EGL extensions:
EGL_KHR_swap_buffers_with_damage
EGL_NV_stream_consumer_gltexture_yuv
Marked the DeleteUnusedDP12Displays option as deprecated.
Version 1.5.0 of the X Resize and Rotate specification added a note that dynamically-created outputs will not be destroyed, so this option is deprecated and will be removed in a future driver release.
Added support for VDPAU profiles added in VDPAU 0.9:
VDP_DECODER_PROFILE_H264_BASELINE
VDP_DECODER_PROFILE_H264_CONSTRAINED_BASELINE
VDP_DECODER_PROFILE_H264_EXTENDED
VDP_DECODER_PROFILE_H264_PROGRESSIVE_HIGH
VDP_DECODER_PROFILE_H264_CONSTRAINED_HIGH
Fixed a bug that prevented more than one RandR output from sharing user-added modes.
Fixed a bug that caused application-specified swap intervals to be ignored on some screens when using Xinerama.
Fixed a bug that caused user-supplied RandR modes with nonsensical combinations of the +HSync, -HSync, +VSync, and -VSync flags to corrupt the mode list.
Added support to make an OpenGL 3.0 and above context current without making current to any drawable.

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 352.41 (Aug 28, 2015)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 352.30 (Jul 28, 2015)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 346.72 (Jun 24, 2015)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 352.21 (Jun 16, 2015)

Fixed a bug that caused the Display Configuration page of the nvidia-settings control panel to automatically generate layouts with multiple displays occupying the same position when enabling or disabling Base Mosaic.
Updated nvidia-settings to allow the use of the standard Display Configuration page when SLI Mosaic is enabled.
Fixed a bug that caused the kernel to report errors when unmapping DMA allocations on kernels with CONFIG_DEBUG_DMA_API enabled.
Added GLX Protocol support for the following OpenGL extensions:
GL_ARB_copy_buffer
GL_ARB_texture_buffer_object
Fixed a bug that caused a kernel crash if SLI Mosaic and G-SYNC were used at the same time on a configuration with more display devices connected to one GPU than another.
Added the ability to configure the swapping behavior for quad-buffered stereo visuals. The driver can be configured to independently swap each eye as it becomes ready, to wait for both eyes to complete rendering before swapping, or to allow applications to specify which of these two behaviors is preferred by setting the swap interval. This setting can be adjusted in the nvidia-settings control panel, or via the NV-CONTROL API.
Fixed a regression which caused the GPU fan status display to disappear from the nvidia-settings control panel.
Added reporting of ECC error counts to the nvidia-settings control panel.
Fixed a bug that sometimes prevented OpenGL sampler objects from being properly deallocated when destroying OpenGL contexts.
Fixed a bug that caused GLX_EXT_framebuffer_sRGB to incorrectly report sRGB support in 30 bit-per-pixel framebuffer configurations.
Added support for G-SYNC with sync-to-vblank disabled. This allows applications to use G-SYNC to eliminate tearing for frame rates below the monitor's maximum refresh rate but allow tearing above the maximum refresh rate in order to minimize latency.
When G-SYNC is active and sync-to-vblank is enabled, the frame rate is limited to the monitor's maximum refresh rate.
GLSL gl_Fog.scale is now +infinity when gl_Fog.end equals gl_Fog.start. Previously, the value 0 was used, but this broke certain applications such as the game XIII running on Wine (Wine bug #37068).
Enabled G-SYNC by default when Unified Back Buffer (UBB) is disabled.
Updated the NVIDIA GPU driver to avoid using video memory already in use by vesafb.
Fixed a bug in nvidia-settings that caused the application to crash when saving the EDID to a file.
Fixed a bug that prevented the "mkprecompiled" utility included in the driver package from reading files correctly.
Fixed a bug that could cause an Xid error when terminating a video playback application using the overlay presentation queue in VDPAU.
Updated nvidia-installer to avoid recursing too deeply into kernel source trees under /usr/lib/modules, mirroring an existing restriction on recursion under /lib/modules.
Fixed a rare deadlock condition when running applications that use OpenGL in multiple threads on a Quadro GPU.
Fixed a kernel memory leak that occurred when looping hardware- accelerated video decoding with VDPAU on Maxwell-based GPUs.
Fixed a bug that caused the X server to crash if a RandR 1.4 output provided by a Sink Output provider was selected as the primary output on X.Org xserver 1.17 and higher.
Fixed a bug that caused waiting on X Sync Fence objects in OpenGL to hang indefinitely in some cases.
Fixed a bug that prevented OpenGL from properly recovering from hardware errors or sync object waits that had timed out.

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 346.72 (May 13, 2015)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 346.59 (Apr 7, 2015)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 346.47 (Feb 25, 2015)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 346.35 (Jan 18, 2015)

Added support for X.Org xserver ABI 19 (xorg-server 1.17).
Fixed a bug that prevented internal 4K panels on some laptops from being driven at a sufficient bandwidth to support their native resolutions.
Fixed a regression that caused displays to be detected incorrectly on some notebook systems.
Fixed a bug that could cause X to freeze when using Base Mosaic.
Fixed a regression that prevented the NVIDIA X driver from recognizing Base Mosaic layouts generated by the nvidia-settings control panel.
Updated the NVIDIA X driver to reject frame packed interlaced HDMI 3D modes during mode validation. These modes were being validated by the driver, despite never having been supported.
Fixed a bug that prevented the console from being restored after forcefully terminating X, on some GPUs with multiple DisplayPort monitors attached. This bug also subsequently prevented X from being started following the failed console restoration.
Updated the version of libvdpau shipped with the driver to 0.9. This version honors the VDPAU_DRIVER_PATH environment variable and fixes a race condition if multiple threads call VdpDeviceCreateX11 simultaneously. See http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/vdpau/2014-December/000274.html for more information.
Please note that users are encouraged to use their distribution's libvdpau packages rather than relying on the one shipped with the NVIDIA graphics driver.
Fixed a bug that caused the screen image to be shifted when screen transformations (such as rotations or reflections) were enabled on a G-SYNC display attached to a Kepler-based GPU.
Fixed a bug that caused a blank screen when setting a mode requiring YUV 4:2:0 compression. These modes are not currently supported.
Fixed a bug that caused an incorrect DisplayPort link configuration to be displayed after a hotplug or unplug.
Added support for the following EGL extensions:
EGL_EXT_device_base
EGL_EXT_platform_device
EGL_EXT_output_base
Added the ability to increase the operating voltage on certain GeForce GPUs in the GeForce GTX 400 series and later. Voltage adjustments are done at the user's own risk. See the documentation on the "CoolBits" X configuration option in the README for details.
Added accelerated support for r8g8b8a8, r8g8b8x8, b8g8r8a8 and b8g8r8x8 RENDER formats.
Updated nvidia-settings to take advantage of GTK+ 3, when available. This is implemented by building the nvidia-settings user interface into separate shared libraries (libnvidia-gtk2.so, libnvidia-gtk3.so), and loading the correct one at run-time.
Added the nvidia-settings option --gtk-library to allow specifying the path of the directory containing the user interface library or the path and filename of the specific library to use.
Fixed a GLSL compiler bug that would produce corruption when running games such as Far Cry 3 in Wine.
Fixed the EGL_KHR_stream_cross_process_fd extension.
Fixed rendering corruption that sometimes happened when calling DrawElementsInstancedBaseVertexBaseInstance(), DrawElementsInstancedBaseInstance(), or DrawArraysInstancedBaseInstance().
Dramatically improved OpenGL Framebuffer Object creation performance.
Removed the limit on the maximum number of OpenGL Framebuffer Objects.
Updated the NVIDIA OpenGL driver to prefer $XDG_CACHE_HOME over $HOME as the default location for storing the GL shader disk cache.

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 340.65 (Dec 10, 2014)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 343.36 (Dec 5, 2014)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 340.46 (Oct 2, 2014)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 343.22 (Sep 19, 2014)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 340.32 (Sep 12, 2014)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 331.49 (Feb 19, 2014)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 331.38 (Jan 13, 2014)

Fixed a bug that caused the X server to crash if video memory is exhausted and the GPU does not support rendering to system memory.
Updated nvidia-installer to make the --multiple-kernel-modules option imply the --no-unified-memory option: Unified memory is incompatible with multiple kernel modules.
Improved the robustness of the NVIDIA X driver in scenarios where GPU-accessible memory for allocating pixmaps was exhausted.
Added NV-CONTROL attributes to control the brightness of the illuminated logos on certain graphics boards.For example, to turn off the illumination of the "GEFORCE GTX" lettering on the GeForce GTX 780, use
nvidia-settings --assign GPULogoBrightness=0
Fixed a bug that prevented screen transformations from being applied properly when starting X.
GLX protocol for the following OpenGL extensions from OpenGL 2.1 and OpenGL 3.0 have been promoted from unofficial to ARB approved official status:
GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object
GL_NV_conditional_render
GL_ARB_map_buffer_range
GL_EXT_texture_integer
GL_ARB_vertex_array_object
GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object was the last piece of protocol needed to have official support for indirect rendering with all OpenGL 2.1 commands.
GLX Protocol for the miscellaneous OpenGL 3.0 commands not associated with specific extensions has also been promoted from unofficial to ARB approved status.
Deprecated display mask related configuration of display devices via NV-CONTROL and nvidia-settings.Display target specifications should be used instead - A display target is one of the display's valid names, with an optional GPU or X screen qualifier.
Deprecated the following NV-CONTROL attributes:
NV_CTRL_CONNECTED_DISPLAYS
NV_CTRL_ENABLED_DISPLAYS
NV_CTRL_ASSOCIATED_DISPLAYS
NV_CTRL_NOTEBOOK_INTERNAL_LCD
NV_CTRL_FRAMELOCK_MASTER
NV_CTRL_FRAMELOCK_SLAVES
NV_CTRL_FRAMELOCK_MASTERABLE
NV_CTRL_FRAMELOCK_SLAVEABLE
Also, although NV_CTRL_PROBE_DISPLAYS is still operational, the return value has been deprecated and should not be used.
Added deprecation warning messages in nvidia-settings when deprecated attributes are used.This also includes display mask usage.

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 325.15 (Nov 15, 2013)

Added support for the following GPUs:
NVS 315
Quadro K500M
Fixed a bug in the nvidia-settings control panel that could cause spurious messages about layout inconsistencies to be printed when changing the display layout while SLI is enabled.
Fixed a bug that could cause display flickering after setting some scaling configurations.
Fixed a bug that prevented the status bar on the "PowerMizer" and "X Server XVideo Settings" pages in the nvidia-settings control panel from being updated when settings were changed by another NV-CONTROL client.
Fixed a bug that could cause some UI elements to be duplicated in the nvidia-settings control panel following a VT switch on X server configurations with multiple NVIDIA X screens.
Fixed a bug that prevented the creation of a mode via RandR with the same name as a previously created mode, even after the previous mode had been deleted.
Fixed a bug in nvidia-settings that caused GTK+ theme colors to be ignored for some UI elements.
Fixed a bug that caused nvidia-settings to write hostname-based color correction settings to the .nvidia-settings-rc configuration file, even when the "Include X Display Names in the Config File" option was unset. This could lead to a long delay when starting nvidia-settings, if a hostname saved to the configuration file failed to resolve.
Fixed a bug that exposed edge overlap controls on the SLI Mosai page of nvidia-settings on edges where overlap was impossible.
Fixed a bug that caused some settings in the nvidia-settings control panel to be reset when reprobing displays.
Fixed a bug that could cause OpenGL applications that use Frame Buffer Objects (FBOs) to crash following a mode switch (e.g. changing the resolution of a display or transforming it).
Fixed a memory leak that could be triggered by unloading libGL before destroying all GLX contexts.
Fixed a bug that could cause color correction settings to be applied to the wrong display when multiple displays are unplugged and then plugged back in again.
Fixed a bug that could cause a spurious error message about a missing NV-GLX extension when performing indirect rendering from a GLX client with the NVIDIA client-side OpenGL libraries to a non-NVIDIA GLX server.
Fixed an OpenGL bug that prevented conditional rendering from the NV_conditional_render extension from correctly affecting CopyPixels.
Improved the rendering performance of complex gradients.
Added support for configuring SLI Mosaic and Base Mosaic in the "X Server Display Configuration" page of nvidia-settings.
Fixed an X driver bug where the RandR CRTC panning area and tracking area were not getting clamped to the current X screen size when the RandR CRTC transitioned from disabled to enabled.
Fixed an X driver bug where successful RandR X_RRSetScreenConfig requests would update the server's RandR 'lastSetTime' too far, potentially causing subsequent RandR requests to be unnecessarily rejected.
Fixed an X driver bug that caused GPUs to become inaccessible via the NV-CONTROL X extension when no corresponding X screens could be initialized.
Generate a BadMatch error when applications attempt to create GLX pixmaps using glXCreatePixmap() or glXCreateGLXPixmapWithConfigSGIX() and the pixmap's depth doesn't match that of the specified GLXFBConfig.
Updated nvidia-settings to explicitly specify the direction of rotation for configuring per-display rotation configuration.
Honor a GPU UUID as the GPU qualifier for X configuration options that allow GPU qualifiers (e.g. "MetaModes").
Report GPU UUIDs in the X log when verbose logging is enabled in the X server.
Enabled conformant glBlitFrameBuffer() scissor test behavior by default. A driver-provided application profile enables the previous non-conformant behavior for applications that load libcogl, to work around a bug in older versions of libcogl.
Application profiles can be added to enable the non-conformant behavior for other applications that depend upon it. See the "Known Issues" section of the README for more details.
Fixed a bug that could prevent some double-bit ECC errors from being properly reported.
Fixed a bug which could cause a blank screen when changing house sync settings on Quadro Kepler GPUs with Quadro Sync boards.
Fixed a bug that prevented nested loops with identical loop conditions in GLSL shaders from terminating correctly. This could cause hangs in applications such as Exa PowerVIZ.
Fixed a bug that resulted in corrupt texels when a previously empty texture image was specified with glXBindTexImageEXT. In GNOME 3, this caused gnome-screenshot to produce garbled window screenshots.
Fixed a bug that caused the X server to crash when querying the current mode of disabled displays.

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 331.20 (Nov 9, 2013)

Fixed a bug that prevented configuration files containing application profiles from being loaded when directories were present in the application profile configuration search path.
Fixed a bug that could lead to memory exhaustion in OpenGL applications running on 32-bit systems.
Fixed a bug that caused the X server to fail to initialize when DisplayPort 1.2 monitors were assigned to separate X screens on the same GPU.
Fixed a bug that could cause a deadlock when forking from OpenGL programs which use some malloc implementations, such as TCMalloc.
Fixed a bug that prevented Warp & Blend settings from being retained across display configuration changes.
Fixed a bug that prevented some settings changes made via the nvidia-settings command line interface from being reflected in the nvidia-settings graphical user interface.
Changed the clipping behavior of the NVIDIA X driver on Trapezoids and Triangles for some RENDER operations to match the behavior in newer versions of Pixman:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pixman/2013-April/002755.html
Fixed a bug in MetaMode tracking that could cause spurious error messages to be printed when attempting to add or delete Metamodes via NV-CONTROL.
Fixed a bug that caused the NVIDIA X driver to attempt to load the X11 "shadow" module unconditionally, even in situations where the driver had no need to use the module. This could result in the printing of spurious error messages, on X servers where the module was not present.
Fixed a bug that prevented display configuration changes made with xvidtune(1) from working correctly.
Fixed a bug that occasionally caused display corruption in GLX applications while changing the display configuration.
Fixed a bug that prevented glReadPixels from working correctly when reading from Pixel Buffer Objects over indirect rendering, when the image width is not a multiple of 4.
Added a new NV-CONTROL attribute, NV_CTRL_BACKLIGHT_BRIGHTNESS, for controlling backlight brightness.
Fixed a bug that prevented nvidia-settings from creating display device configuration pages for newly connected DisplayPort 1.2 Multi Stream Transport downstream devices.
Added GPU utilization reporting to the nvidia-settings control panel.
Fixed a bug in the nvidia-settings control panel that prevented users from configuring stereo, when stereo was not already configured.
Added support for reporting the tachometer-measured fan speed on capable graphics boards via nvidia-settings and the NV-CONTROL API. The preexisting mechanism for reporting fan speed reports the speed of the fan as programmed by the driver.
For example, `nvidia-settings --query=[fan:0]/GPUCurrentFanSpeedRPM`.
Fixed a regression that caused GPUs that do not support graphics to not appear in nvidia-settings.
Fixed a bug that caused DisplayPort 1.2 multi-stream devices to stop working if they were unplugged and plugged back in while they were active in the current MetaMode.
Added support for multiple NVIDIA kernel modules. This feature allows users to assign different GPUs in the system to different NVIDIA kernel modules, potentially reducing the software overhead of coordinating access to multiple GPUs.
Added support for the EGL API on 32-bit platforms. Currently, the supported client APIs are OpenGL ES 1.1, 2.0 and 3.0, and the only supported window system backend is X11.
Add a new option, AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration, which allows the X server to start even if no connected display devices are detected at startup. This option can be enabled by running "sudo nvidia-xconfig --allow-empty-initial-configuration"
Added a system memory cache to improve the performance of certain X rendering operations that use software rendering fallbacks. The X configuration option "SoftwareRenderCacheSize" may be used to configure the size of the cache.
Removed the "DynamicTwinView" X configuration option: dynamic reconfiguration of displays is always possible, and can no longer be disabled.
Fixed a bug that caused nvidia-settings to display incorrect information in its display configuration page when all displays on an X screen were turned off.

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 331.17 Beta (Oct 25, 2013)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 331.13 Beta (Oct 4, 2013)

Fixed a bug that caused the X server to fail to initialize when DisplayPort 1.2 monitors were assigned to separate X screens on the same GPU.
Fixed a bug that could cause a deadlock when forking from OpenGL programs which use some malloc implementations, such as TCMalloc.
Fixed a bug that prevented Warp & Blend settings from being retained across display configuration changes.
Fixed a bug that prevented some settings changes made via the nvidia-settings command line interface from being reflected in the nvidia-settings graphical user interface.
Changed the clipping behavior of the NVIDIA X driver on Trapezoids and Triangles for some RENDER operations to match the behavior in newer versions of Pixman:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pixman/2013-April/002755.html
Fixed a bug in MetaMode tracking that could cause spurious error messages to be printed when attempting to add or delete Metamodes via NV-CONTROL.
Fixed a bug that caused the NVIDIA X driver to attempt to load the X11 "shadow" module unconditionally, even in situations where the driver had no need to use the module. This could result in the printing of spurious error messages, on X servers where the module was not present.
Fixed a bug that prevented display configuration changes made with xvidtune(1) from working correctly.
Fixed a bug that prevented glReadPixels from working correctly when reading from Pixel Buffer Objects over indirect rendering, when the image width is not a multiple of 4.
Added a new NV-CONTROL attribute, NV_CTRL_BACKLIGHT_BRIGHTNESS, for controlling backlight brightness.
Fixed a bug that prevented nvidia-settings from creating display device configuration pages for newly connected DisplayPort 1.2 Multi Stream Transport downstream devices.
Added GPU utilization reporting to the nvidia-settings control panel.
Fixed a bug in the nvidia-settings control panel that prevented users from configuring stereo, when stereo was not already configured.
Added support for reporting the tachometer-measured fan speed on capable graphics boards via nvidia-settings and the NV-CONTROL API. The preexisting mechanism for reporting fan speed reports the speed of the fan as programmed by the driver. For example, `nvidia-settings --query=[fan:0]/GPUCurrentFanSpeedRPM`.
Fixed a regression that caused GPUs that do not support graphics to not appear in nvidia-settings.
Fixed a bug that caused DisplayPort 1.2 multi-stream devices to stop working if they were unplugged and plugged back in while they were active in the current MetaMode.
Added support for multiple NVIDIA kernel modules. This feature allows users to assign different GPUs in the system to different NVIDIA kernel modules, potentially reducing the software overhead of coordinating access to multiple GPUs.
Added support for the EGL API on 32-bit platforms. Currently, the supported client APIs are OpenGL ES 1.1, 2.0 and 3.0, and the only supported window system backend is X11.
Add a new option, AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration, which allows the X server to start even if no connected display devices are detected at startup. This option can be enabled by running "sudo nvidia-xconfig --allow-empty-initial-configuration"
Added a system memory cache to improve the performance of certain X rendering operations that use software rendering fallbacks. The X configuration option "SoftwareRenderCacheSize" may be used to configure the size of the cache.
Removed the "DynamicTwinView" X configuration option: dynamic reconfiguration of displays is always possible, and can no longer be disabled.
Fixed a bug that caused nvidia-settings to display incorrect information in its display configuration page when all displays on an X screen were turned off.

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 319.60 (Oct 2, 2013)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 319.49 (Aug 21, 2013)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 325.15 Beta (Aug 6, 2013)

Added support for the following GPUs:
NVS 315
Quadro K500M
Fixed a bug in the nvidia-settings control panel that could cause spurious messages about layout inconsistencies to be printed when changing the display layout while SLI is enabled.
Fixed a bug that could cause display flickering after setting some scaling configurations.
Fixed a bug that prevented the status bar on the "PowerMizer" and "X Server XVideo Settings" pages in the nvidia-settings control panel from being updated when settings were changed by another NV-CONTROL client.
Fixed a bug that could cause some UI elements to be duplicated in the nvidia-settings control panel following a VT switch on X server configurations with multiple NVIDIA X screens.
Fixed a bug that prevented the creation of a mode via RandR with the same name as a previously created mode, even after the previous mode had been deleted.
Fixed a bug in nvidia-settings that caused GTK+ theme colors to be ignored for some UI elements.
Fixed a bug that caused nvidia-settings to write hostname-based color correction settings to the .nvidia-settings-rc configuration file, even when the "Include X Display Names in the Config File" option was unset. This could lead to a long delay when starting nvidia-settings, if a hostname saved to the configuration file failed to resolve.
Fixed a bug that exposed edge overlap controls on the SLI Mosai page of nvidia-settings on edges where overlap was impossible.
Fixed a bug that caused some settings in the nvidia-settings control panel to be reset when reprobing displays.
Fixed a bug that could cause OpenGL applications that use Frame Buffer Objects (FBOs) to crash following a mode switch (e.g. changing the resolution of a display or transforming it).
Fixed a memory leak that could be triggered by unloading libGL before destroying all GLX contexts.
Fixed a bug that could cause color correction settings to be applied to the wrong display when multiple displays are unplugged and then plugged back in again.
Fixed a bug that could cause a spurious error message about a missing NV-GLX extension when performing indirect rendering from a GLX client with the NVIDIA client-side OpenGL libraries to a non-NVIDIA GLX server.
Fixed an OpenGL bug that prevented conditional rendering from the NV_conditional_render extension from correctly affecting CopyPixels.
Improved the rendering performance of complex gradients.
Added support for configuring SLI Mosaic and Base Mosaic in the "X Server Display Configuration" page of nvidia-settings.
Fixed an X driver bug where the RandR CRTC panning area and tracking area were not getting clamped to the current X screen size when the RandR CRTC transitioned from disabled to enabled.
Fixed an X driver bug where successful RandR X_RRSetScreenConfig requests would update the server's RandR 'lastSetTime' too far, potentially causing subsequent RandR requests to be unnecessarily rejected.
Fixed an X driver bug that caused GPUs to become inaccessible via the NV-CONTROL X extension when no corresponding X screens could be initialized.
Generate a BadMatch error when applications attempt to create GLX pixmaps using glXCreatePixmap() or glXCreateGLXPixmapWithConfigSGIX() and the pixmap's depth doesn't match that of the specified GLXFBConfig.
Updated nvidia-settings to explicitly specify the direction of rotation for configuring per-display rotation configuration.
Honor a GPU UUID as the GPU qualifier for X configuration options that allow GPU qualifiers (e.g. "MetaModes").
Report GPU UUIDs in the X log when verbose logging is enabled in the X server.
Enabled conformant glBlitFrameBuffer() scissor test behavior by default. A driver-provided application profile enables the previous non-conformant behavior for applications that load libcogl, to work around a bug in older versions of libcogl.
Application profiles can be added to enable the non-conformant behavior for other applications that depend upon it. See the "Known Issues" section of the README for more details.
Fixed a bug that could prevent some double-bit ECC errors from being properly reported.
Fixed a bug which could cause a blank screen when changing house sync settings on Quadro Kepler GPUs with Quadro Sync boards.
Fixed a bug that prevented nested loops with identical loop conditions in GLSL shaders from terminating correctly. This could cause hangs in applications such as Exa PowerVIZ.
Fixed a bug that resulted in corrupt texels when a previously empty texture image was specified with glXBindTexImageEXT. In GNOME 3, this caused gnome-screenshot to produce garbled window screenshots.
Fixed a bug that caused the X server to crash when querying the current mode of disabled displays.

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 325.08 Beta (Jul 1, 2013)

Fixed a bug that could cause display flickering after setting some scaling configurations.
Fixed a bug that prevented the status bar on the "PowerMizer" and "X Server XVideo Settings" pages in the nvidia-settings control panel from being updated when settings were changed by another NV-CONTROL client.
Fixed a bug that could cause some UI elements to be duplicated in the nvidia-settings control panel following a VT switch on X server configurations with multiple NVIDIA X screens.
Fixed a bug that prevented the creation of a mode via RandR with the same name as a previously created mode, even after the previous mode had been deleted.
Fixed a bug in nvidia-settings that caused GTK+ theme colors to be ignored for some UI elements.
Fixed a bug that caused nvidia-settings to write hostname-based color correction settings to the .nvidia-settings-rc configuration file, even when the "Include X Display Names in the Config File" option was unset. This could lead to a long delay when starting nvidia-settings, if a hostname saved to the configuration file failed to resolve.
Fixed a bug that exposed edge overlap controls on the SLI Mosaic page of nvidia-settings on edges where overlap was impossible.
Fixed a bug that caused some settings in the nvidia-settings control panel to be reset when reprobing displays.
Fixed a bug that could cause OpenGL applications that use Frame Buffer Objects (FBOs) to crash following a mode switch (e.g. changing the resolution of a display or transforming it).
Fixed a memory leak that could be triggered by unloading libGL before destroying all GLX contexts.
Fixed a bug that could cause color correction settings to be applied to the wrong display when multiple displays are unplugged and then plugged back in again.
Fixed a bug that could cause a spurious error message about a missing NV-GLX extension when performing indirect rendering from a GLX client with the NVIDIA client-side OpenGL libraries to a non-NVIDIA GLX server.
Fixed an OpenGL bug that prevented conditional rendering from the NV_conditional_render extension from correctly affecting CopyPixels.
Improved the rendering performance of complex gradients.
Added support for configuring SLI Mosaic and Base Mosaic in the "X Server Display Configuration" page of nvidia-settings.
Fixed an X driver bug where the RandR CRTC panning area and tracking area were not getting clamped to the current X screen size when the RandR CRTC transitioned from disabled to enabled.
Fixed an X driver bug where successful RandR X_RRSetScreenConfig requests would update the server's RandR 'lastSetTime' too far, potentially causing subsequent RandR requests to be unnecessarily rejected.
Fixed an X driver bug that caused GPUs to become inaccessible via the NV-CONTROL X extension when no corresponding X screens could be initialized.
Generate a BadMatch error when applications attempt to create GLX pixmaps using glXCreatePixmap() or glXCreateGLXPixmapWithConfigSGIX() and the pixmap's depth doesn't match that of the specified GLXFBConfig.
Updated nvidia-settings to explicitly specify the direction of rotation for configuring per-display rotation configuration.
Honor a GPU UUID as the GPU qualifier for X configuration options that allow GPU qualifiers (e.g. "MetaModes").
Report GPU UUIDs in the X log when verbose logging is enabled in the X server.
Enabled conformant glBlitFrameBuffer() scissor test behavior by default. A driver-provided application profile enables the previous non-conformant behavior for applications that load libcogl, to work around a bug in older versions of libcogl.
Application profiles can be added to enable the non-conformant behavior for other applications that depend upon it. See the "Known Issues" section of the README for more details.
Fixed a bug that caused the X server to crash when querying the current mode of disabled displays.

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 319.32 (Jun 25, 2013)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 319.23 (May 23, 2013)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 319.17 (May 2, 2013)

Fixed a bug that could cause the X server to crash when repeatedly enabling and disabling displays.
Updated nvidia-settings to preserve the relative positioning of displays when changing from a layout where multiple displays are on the same X screen to one where the same displays span multiple X screens.
Fixed nvidia-settings to dlopen(3) "libvdpau.so.1", rather than "libvdpau.so".
Fixed CVE-2013-0131: NVIDIA UNIX GPU Driver ARGB Cursor Buffer Overflow in "NoScanout" Mode. This buffer overflow, which occurred when an X client installed a large ARGB cursor on an X server running in NoScanout mode, could cause a denial of service (e.g., an X server segmentation fault), or could be exploited to achieve arbitrary code execution.
For more details, see: http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3290
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 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.
Updated the nvidia-settings command line interface to accept display device names, as well as optional target qualifiers, e.g.
nvidia-settings -q [DVI-I-0]/RefreshRate
nvidia-settings -q [GPU-1.DVI_I-1]/RefreshRate
Updated the nvidia-settings command line interface to no longer assume the "X screen 0" target, when no target is specified in query and assign operations.Instead, all valid targets of the attribute are processed.
Fixed a memory leak that occurred when destroying a GLX window but not its associated X window.
Fixed a bug that could cause nvidia-installer to fail to delete directories created as part of a previous installation.
Updated nvidia-installer to report failures to remove installed files or restore backed up files with a single warning message, instead of a separate message for each individual failure.
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.
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 a VDPAU page to the nvidia-settings control panel, to display information about the decoding capabilities of VDPAU-capable 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".

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 310.44 (Apr 2, 2013)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 310.40 (Mar 9, 2013)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 310.32 (Jan 21, 2013)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 310.19 (Nov 16, 2012)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 304.64 (Nov 6, 2012)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 304.60 (Oct 19, 2012)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 304.51 (Sep 25, 2012)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 304.43 (Aug 28, 2012)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 304.37 (Aug 14, 2012)

Added support for the following GPUs:
GeForce GTX 680M
Quadro K1000M
Quadro K2000M
Tesla K10
Removed the ability to enable SLI on GPUs with ECC enabled.
Fixed several bugs that prevented some RandR transform geometries from being applied.
Fixed a bug that caused frequent hangs or crashes on some systems.
Fixed a bug that would cause corruption and performance issues in certain OpenGL applications such as Amnesia: The Dark Descent on GeForce 6 and 7 GPUs.
Fixed a bug that caused applications that use DirectColor visuals, such as Enemy Territory: Quake Wars and Braid, to appear in shades of blue instead of the correct colors.
Modified handling of RRSetScreenSize requests to ignore requests that do not actually resize the screen.This reduces screen flicker in certain cases when using GNOME.
Added a new option, "--disable-nouveau" to nvidia-installer. This option changes the action that is chosen by default when Nouveauis detected by nvidia-installer. If the "--disable-nouveau" optionis set, then the default will be to attempt to disable Nouveau when it is detected; otherwise, no attempt will be made unless requested.
Added support for xserver ABI 13 (xorg-server 1.13).
Added support for RandR per-CRTC gamma manipulation through the RandR 1.2 RRGetCrtcGammaSize, RRGetCrtcGamma, and RRSetCrtcGamma requests.
Fixed a bug that caused RRSetOutputPrimary requests to incorrectly generate BadValue errors when setting the primary output to None.This caused gnome-settings-daemon to crash after changing the screen configuration in response to a display hotplug or the display change hot-key being pressed.
Fixed a problem where RENDER Glyphs operations would exhibit severe performance issues in certain cases, such as when used with gradients by Cairo and Chromium.
Fixed a bug that caused X to hang when resuming certain DisplayPort display devices (such as Apple brand mini-DisplayPort to dual-link DVI adapters) from power-saving mode.
Fixed a bug that caused an X screen to be extended to Quadro SDI Output devices by default. An X screen will still use an SDI Output device if it is the only display device available. To use a SDI Output device on an X screen with other display devices available, include the SDI Output device with either the "UseDisplayDevice" or "MetaMode" X configuration options.
Updated X11 modeline validation such that modes not defined in a display device's EDID are discarded if the EDID 1.3 "GTF Supported" flag is unset or if the EDID 1.4 "Continuous Frequency" flag is unset. The new "AllowNonEdidModes" token for the ModeValidationX configuration option can be used to disable this new check.
Fixed a bug, introduced in the 295.xx release series, with EDID detection on some laptop internal panels. This bug caused the laptop internal panel to show six small copies of the desktop.
Added support for FXAA, Fast Approximate Anti-Aliasing. Using regular anti-aliasing modes or Unified Back Buffers with FXAA is not currently supported.
Enhanced the functionality of the IncludeImplicitMetaModes X configuration option: Implicit MetaModes will be added for the primary display device, even if multiple display devices are in use when X is initialized.
Implicit MetaModes will be added for common resolutions, even
if there isn't a mode with that resolution in the mode pool of
the display device.
Extended the syntax of the IncludeImplicitMetaModes X
configuration option, e.g., to control which display device is
used for creation of implicit MetaModes.
See the description of the IncludeImplicitMetaModes X configuration
option in the README for details.
Modified the handling of the RandR 1.0/1.1 requests RRGetScreenInfo and RRSetScreenConfig (e.g., `xrandr -q --q1` and `xrandr --size ...` and `xrandr --orientation ...`) such that they operate on MetaModes. This was the behavior in NVIDIA X driver versions 295.xx and earlier, but 302.xx releases altered the handling of these RandR 1.0/1.1 requests to operate on a single RandR output's modes.
With the above changes to IncludeImplicitMetaModes and RandR 1.0/1.1 handling, fullscreen applications (e.g., SDL-based applications, Wine), should have more resolutions available to them, and should interact better with multiple monitor configurations.
Fixed a bug that could cause G8x, G9x, and GT2xx GPUs to display a black screen or corruption after waking up from suspend.
Fixed several bugs that could cause some OpenGL programs to hang when calling fork(3).
Fixed an nvidia-settings bug that caused the results of ProbeDisplays queries made with the --display-device-string option to be formatted incorrectly.
Improved the responsiveness of updates to the nvidia-settings control panel when displays are hotplugged.
Fixed a bug that caused display corruption when setting some transforms, especially when panning a transformed display.
Fixed a bug that caused extra RandR events to be generated the first time a display is hotplugged.
Fixed a bug that caused X11 modelines with '@' in their names to be rejected.
Added support for DisplayPort 1.2 branch devices, which allow multiple displays to be connected to a single DisplayPort connector on a graphics board.
Fixed a bug that caused most OpenGL texture uploads to be slow when the context was bound rendering to an RGB overlay drawable.
Fixed a bug that caused audio over HDMI to not work after restarting the X server on some MCP7x (IGP) GPUs.
Updated the X configuration option "UseDisplayDevice" to honor the value "none" on any GPU.
Added support for DKMS in nvidia-installer. Installing the kernel module through DKMS allows the module to be rebuilt automatically when changing to a different Linux kernel. See the README and the nvidia-installer help text for the "--dkms" option.
Added RandR output properties _ConnectorLocation, ConnectorNumber, ConnectorType, EDID, _GUID, and SignalFormat. See the README for details on these properties.
Extended support for Base Mosaic to all G80+ SLI configurations with up to three displays.
Fixed a bug that caused some monitors to fail to wake from DPMS suspend mode when multiple DisplayPort monitors were attached to one GPU.
Removed controls for XVideo attributes from the "X Server XVideo Settings" page of the nvidia-settings control panel. XVideo attributes can be configured in XVideo player applications, or through utilities such as xvattr.
Fixed a bug that caused all ports on an XVideo adaptor to share color correction settings.
Removed support for the following X configuration options:
SecondMonitorHorizSync
SecondMonitorVertRefresh
Similar control is available through the NVIDIA HorizSync and
VertRefresh X configuration options. Please see the NVIDIA driver
README for details.
Fixed a bug that prevented NVIDIA 3D Vision Pro from working properly when switching between X servers on different VTs.
Added support for desktop panning when rotation, reflection, or transformation is applied to a display device (either through RandR or through the MetaMode syntax); panning would previously be ignored in that case.
Implemented hotfix for a privilege escalation vulnerability reported on August 1, 2012. For more details, see:
http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3140

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 302.17 (Jun 16, 2012)

Made nvidiaXineramaInfoOrder consistent with the RRSetOutputPrimary and RRGetOutputPrimary RandR requests: changes to either nvidiaXineramaInfoOrder or RandR OutputPrimary will be reflected in the other.
Fixed an interaction problem between RandR 1.2, ConstrainCursor, and panning that prevented panning from working properly.
Fixed a bug that caused RandR RRNotify_CrtcChange events to not be generated when switching between MetaModes with the same total size but different layout of display devices. This bug caused some window managers to not update their layouts in response to switching same-sized MetaModes.
Added support for desktop panning when rotation, reflection, or transformation is applied to a display device (either through RandR or through the MetaMode syntax); panning would previously be ignored in that case.
Added an "EDID" property to RandR 1.2 outputs. This property contains the binary contents of the connected monitor's extended display identification data, which allows applications such as the GNOME display properties dialog to query information about it.
Fixed a bug that caused audio over HDMI to not work on some GPUs after querying the RandR configuration (e.g., `xrandr -q`).
Added the "nvidiaXineramaInfo" X configuration option to report the layout of multiple display devices within an X screen. This is enabled by default. When disabled on X servers with RandR 1.2 support, the NVIDIA X driver will report one screen-sized region. When disabled on X servers without RandR 1.2 support, no Xinerama information will be reported. For backwards compatibility, the "NoTwinViewXineramaInfo" option disables nvidiaXineramaInfo.
Added the "nvidiaXineramaInfoOrder" X configuration option as a replacement for "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder". For backwards compatibility, "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" is kept as a synonym for "nvidiaXineramaInfoOrder".
Added the "nvidiaXineramaInfoOverride" X configuration option as a replacement for "TwinViewXineramaInfoOverride". For backwards compatibility, "TwinViewXineramaInfoOverride" is kept as a synonym for "nvidiaXineramaInfoOverride".
Fixed a bug that prevented the use of some SLI Mosaic topologies.
Added the "MetaModeOrientation" X configuration option as a replacement for "TwinViewOrientation". "TwinViewOrientation" is kept as a synonym for "MetaModeOrientation", for backwards compatibility.
Added support for calculating the physical size and DPI of each RandR 1.2 Output using the EDID Detailed Timing Description.
Fixed a bug that prevented a workaround for the invalid EDID in certain AUO laptop flat panels from being applied, leading to an 800x600 desktop repeated several times across the screen.
Fixed a bug that caused the link configuration of DisplayPort devices to be reported incorrectly in nvidia-settings.
Fixed a bug that caused OpenGL programs to leak file descriptors when calling exec() on themselves.
Fixed rendering corruption at the start of new X server generation.
Added X driver support for RandR 1.2 and RandR 1.3. See "Support for the X Resize and Rotate Extension" in the README for details.
Extended the MetaMode X configuration option syntax with the following new attributes:
"Rotation" : specifies the display device's rotation
"Reflection" : specifies the display device's reflection
"Transform" : specifies a 3x3 transformation matrix to be
applied to the display device
"ViewPortOut" : specifies the region of the mode in which to
display pixels
"ViewPortIn" : specifies the size of the region in the X screen
to display in the ViewPortOut
For example, "DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select { Rotation=left }".
See "Configuring Multiple Display Devices on One X Screen" in the
README for details.
Removed the "TwinView" X configuration option; the functionality it provided is now enabled by default.
Previously, the NVIDIA X driver only enabled one display device for an X screen unless "TwinView" was enabled. Now, the NVIDIA X driver enables, by default, as many display devices as the GPU supports driving simultaneously. To limit how many display devices are driven by an X screen, use the "UseDisplayDevice" X configuration option.
Added a "CurrentMetaMode" attribute to the nvidia-settings command line, to query and set the current MetaMode.
As an example, these two commands are equivalent:
xrandr --output DVI-I-2 --mode 1280x1024 --pos 0x0 --output DVI-I-3 --mode 1920x1200 --pos 1280x0
nvidia-settings --assign CurrentMetaMode= "DVI-I-2: 1280x1024 +0+0, DVI-I-3: 1920x1200 +1280+0"
Removed overscan compensation configurability from NV-CONTROL and nvidia-settings. This can be configured, with finer granularity, through the ViewPortIn and ViewPortOut MetaMode attributes.See "Configuring Multiple Display Devices on One X Screen" in the README for details.
Altered mode validation such that for digital display devices the X driver only allows, by default, modes which are reported in the EDID. Previously, the NVIDIA X driver allowed other modes, but implicitly scaled those other modes to one of the EDID modes.
Now, only the modes in the EDID are validated and the X driver does not do any implicit scaling. Any desired scaling can be configured explicitly through the new "ViewPortIn" and "ViewPortOut" MetaMode attributes. See "Configuring Multiple Display Devices on One X Screen" in the README for details.
Removed Flat Panel Scaling configurability in nvidia-settings. Any desired scaling can be configured through the new "ViewPortIn" and "ViewPortOut" MetaMode attributes.
Hotplug events (specifically, the RRNotify_OutputChange RandR event) are now generated when display devices are connected and disconnected from the GPU. Many desktop environments automatically
resize the X desktop in response to these events.
Added display device name aliases, such that X configuration options that use display device names can refer to a display device by one of several names, including the RandR Output name for the display device. The X log reports the list of aliases for each display device.
Updated EDID parsing to include more complete support for EDID 1.4 and more recent versions of CEA-861.
Removed the "Rotate" X configuration option. This was used to statically rotate the X screen. Its functionality is replaced by the "Rotation" MetaMode attribute and RandR 1.2 rotation support. See the README for details.
Removed the "RandRRotation" X configuration option. This enabled configurability of X screen rotation via RandR 1.1. Its functionality is replaced by the "Rotation" MetaMode attribute and RandR 1.2 rotation support. See the README for details.
Removed support for the following NV-CONTROL attributes:
NV_CTRL_GPU_SCALING
NV_CTRL_GPU_SCALING_DEFAULT_TARGET
NV_CTRL_GPU_SCALING_DEFAULT_METHOD
NV_CTRL_DFP_SCALING_ACTIVE
NV_CTRL_GPU_SCALING_ACTIVE
NV_CTRL_FRONTEND_RESOLUTION
NV_CTRL_BACKEND_RESOLUTION
NV_CTRL_OVERSCAN_COMPENSATION
NV_CTRL_FLATPANEL_BEST_FIT_RESOLUTION
Improved rendering performance for RENDER bitmap text.
Enabled the OpenGL "Sync to VBlank" option by default.
Added a new option, --restore-original-backup, to nvidia-xconfig. nvidia-xconfig creates a backup of the original X configuration file when modifying an X configuration file that does not appear
to have been previously modified by nvidia-xconfig. This option restores a backup of the original X configuration file, if such a backup is found.
Expose the following additional FSAA modes via NV-CONTROL, nvidia-settings, and through X visuals and GLXFBConfigs:
16X multisample FSAA on all GeForce GPUs
Coverage sample FSAA on G80 and above GeForce GPUs
32X multisample FSAA on G80 and above Quadro GPUs
64X multisample FSAA on Fermi and above Quadro GPUs
Enabled conformant texture clamping by default in OpenGL.
Removed support for the GVO Clone mode NV-CONTROL attributes:
NV_CTRL_GVO_DISPLAY_X_SCREEN
NV_CTRL_GVO_X_SCREEN_PAN_X
NV_CTRL_GVO_X_SCREEN_PAN_Y
Added a new, higher resolution icon for nvidia-settings.
Updated the NVIDIA X driver's handling of X configuration options that affect an entire GPU, not just a particular X screen running on a GPU (e.g., "NoPowerConnectorCheck"): for such X configuration options, the X driver will now honor the option on any of the X screens configured on the GPU. Prior to this change, the NVIDIA X driver only honored such options on the first X screen configured on a GPU.
Added a checkbox to nvidia-settings to control the texture clamping attribute. When the box is checked, OpenGL textures are clamped according to the OpenGL specification. When it is unchecked, GL_CLAMP is remapped to GL_CLAMP_TO_EDGE for borderless 2D textures.
Removed the "Display" and "X Screen" tabs from the "X Server Display Configuration Page" of nvidia-settings, and added a new "Selection" dropdown menu for selecting X screens or display devices. This makes it easier to select X screens/Displays that are hidden.

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 295.59 (Jun 12, 2012)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 295.53 (May 17, 2012)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 295.40 (Apr 12, 2012)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 295.33 (Mar 23, 2012)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 295.20 (Feb 13, 2012)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 290.10 (Nov 22, 2011)

Improved the performance of FBO bind operations when using Xinerama by ~30% in some cases.
Fixed a bug that could cause stereo corruption when driving a stereo display and a non-stereo display from the same GPU.
Fixed a bug that could cause display devices on a secondary GPU to get swapped between X screens when restarting the X server.
Fixed a bug that could result in line flickering in full-scene anti-aliasing contexts.
Fixed a bug that caused the physical dimensions of rotated monitors to be reported incorrectly.
Add support for the pre-VBO DrawArrays command in the server-side GLX driver module. The NVIDIA client-side GLX implementation never sends this command, but the server needs to support it for compatibility with other GLX client implementations.
Fixed a regression that caused blank/white windows when exhausting video memory on GeForce 6 and 7 series GPUs while using composited desktops.
Fixed a bug that would cause applications which export custom allocation functions to our driver (such as Adobe Flash in Firefox or Chrome) to crash.
Fixed a bug that prevented the driver from loading on some systems with integrated graphics.
Fixed issues in VDPAU that prevented allocating and displaying extremely large VdpOutputSurfaces.
Added support for limiting heap allocations in the OpenGL driver through the use of the __GL_HEAP_ALLOC_LIMIT environment variable. See the README for further details.
Added an "Accel" option to the X driver to allow disabling its use of the graphics processing hardware. This is useful when other components, such as CUDA, require exclusive use of the GPU's processing cores.
Modified how the OpenGL driver allocates executable memory so it may continue to function properly if /tmp is mounted noexec. As some fallback allocation methods may be prohibited under SELinux policy, the driver now supports detection of this policy as well as manual override of this detection via the __GL_SELINUX_BOOLEANS environment variable.
Fixed a bug that caused various GLSL built-in uniforms to not be updated properly when calling glPopAttrib.
Improved performance by caching compiled OpenGL shaders to disk. Added a "GLShaderDiskCache" option to the X driver to enable/disable this feature. Added the __GL_SHADER_DISK_CACHE and __GL_SHADER_DISK_CACHE_PATH environment variables for further configuration. See the README for further details.
Added GLX protocol support (i.e., for GLX indirect rendering) for the following OpenGL extension:
GL_NV_copy_image

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 285.05.09 (Oct 6, 2011)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 280.13 (Aug 3, 2011)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 275.21 (Jul 25, 2011)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 275.19 (Jul 15, 2011)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 275.09.07 (Jun 14, 2011)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 270.41.19 (May 22, 2011)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 270.41.06 (Apr 21, 2011)

Fixed a bug that caused some GPUs to stop responding when the X Server was started. All GPUs are susceptible, but the failure was primarily
seen on GF104 and GF106 boards.
Fixed a bug causing the X server to hang every 49.7 days on 32-bit platforms.
Added support for the following GPUs:
NVS 4200M
Quadro 1000M
Quadro 2000M
Quadro 2000 D
Quadro 400
Added support for xserver ABI 10 (xorg-server 1.10).
Added NV-CONTROL event notification for NV_CTRL_FRAMELOCK_SYNC_READY status changes.
Added a new X configuration option "Interactive", which defaults to enabled, but can be disabled to allow long-running GPU compute programs to run concurrently with X.
Fixed a bug in the VDPAU presentation queue that could cause VDPAU "display preemption" when rendering to tiny or zero-sized windows or pixmaps.
Fixed a bug in VDPAU which prevented use of the overlay presentation queue following an application exiting without gracefully destroying its VDPAU presentation queue
Fixed a bug in VDPAU that prevented the overlay from ever being used if a presentation queue was created while the target window was redirected using the Composite extension when the presentation queue was created.
Fixed several bugs relating to hardware-accelerated gradients, which were causing visual corruption in some of the default Ubuntu GNOME themes.
Added unofficial GLX protocol support (i.e., for GLX indirect rendering) for the following OpenGL extensions:
GL_ARB_shader_subroutine
GL_ARB_map_buffer_range
Added GLX protocol support (i.e., for GLX indirect rendering)for the following OpenGL extensions:
GL_NV_half_float
GL_NV_occlusion_query
GL_EXT_blend_equation_separate
GL_EXT_depth_bounds_test
Modified colormap updates to no longer be synchronized to vblank. This allows applications to send XStoreColor and XStoreColors requests faster than the screen's refresh rate.
This behavior can be controlled by a new NV-CONTROL attribute, NV_CONTROL_SYNC_LUT_UPDATES. By default, LUT updates are not synchronized. This may cause flickering in some applications that use the colormap to perform animation, such as xpilot running on a depth 8 X screen. If you experience flickering, try running nvidia-settings -a [gpu:0]/SynchronousPaletteUpdates=1

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 260.19.44 (Mar 9, 2011)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 260.19.36 (Jan 21, 2011)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 260.19.29 (Dec 15, 2010)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 260.19.21 (Nov 22, 2010)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 256.53 (Aug 31, 2010)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 256.44 (Aug 15, 2010)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 256.35 (Jun 24, 2010)

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 thermalsensors.
Fixed an interaction problem between Compiz and'screen-scraping' VNC servers like x11vnc and vino that caused the screento 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 theREADME 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 and CUDA. 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.
Compressed the nvidia-settings, nvidia-installer, and nvidia-xconfig tarballs with bzip2, rather than gzip.

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 195.36.31 (Jun 21, 2010)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 195.36.15 (Mar 19, 2010)

Fixed a regression that caused the driver to fail to properly adjustthe GPU fan speed on some GPUs.
Fixed a bug that prevented performance level transitions on recentGPUs with SDDR3 and GDDR5 memory.
Added support for the following GPUs:
Quadro FX 880M
Fixed a bug that caused screen corruption after an application released a GLX_NV_present_video device.
Fixed an X server crash caused by starting nvidia-settings while X was not on the active VT.
Fixed an nvidia-settings bug that produced many "Bad argument" warning messages when running nvidia-settings --query all.
Fixed a bug that caused G-Sync stereo synchronization to fail sometimes when enabling frame lock.
Fixed a bug that caused OpenGL applications to occasionally crash with "double free or corruption" messages when exiting.
On GPUs with VDPAU feature set A, enhanced VDPAU's handling of some corrupted or incorrectly formatted MPEG-1/2 streams. This solves a reported issue with "0testbad.mpg".
Fixed a bug in the VDPAU video mixer that caused chroma aberrations, and corruption in the right-hand few columns of pixels, when post- processing video surfaces with widths not an exact multiple of 4 pixels.
Fixed a bug that prevented the GPUFanControlState attribute from being set on the nvidia-settings command line.
Fixed a regression that made the "TVStandard" X configuration option cause system hangs with products from the GeForce 6 and 7 series.
Worked around a bug in some AUO laptop flat panels where the native mode in the EDID is invalid, leading to a 640x480 desktop repeated six times
across the screen.
Increased the maximum number of slices supported by VDPAU for MPEG-2 streams, in order to cope with the region 1 DVD "A Christmas Story".
Added unofficial preliminary support for xorg-server video driver ABI version 7, including xorg-server-1.7.99.2.
Fix the soname of libvdpau_nvidia.so.1 and libvdpau_trace.so.1 to match their filenames.
Fixed a performance regression with non-antialiased text in KDE4.
Enabled GPU acceleration for many RENDER compositing operations that were previously processed in software, including conjoint and disjoint blending
modes and component alpha blending.
Added experimental GPU acceleration of the RENDER CompositeTrapezoids operation. This can be enabled at runtime by running:
nvidia-settings -a AccelerateTrapezoids=1
This is only supported on the GeForce GTX series or newer products. Fixed a bug in the VDPAU overlay-based presentation queue that caused high CPU usage during "put bits" operations when more than two surfaces
were queued.
Updated `nvidia-settings --query all` to report all available attributes queryable through all NV-CONTROL target types.
Enhanced the VDPAU blit-based presentation queue to provide values of "first_presentation_time" that have less jitter.
Add support for R16F and RG32F GLXFBConfigs when using GeForce 8 series and higher GPUs.
Added support for A2BGR10 32-bit GLX visuals on 30-bit X screens. These allow some level of window transparency when using 30-bit visuals with GLX and Composite, but they may cause problems with older X servers and/or applications.ARGB GLX visuals can be disabled by adding:
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "False" to the X configuration file.
Fixed a problem that caused DisplayPort devices to behave incorrectly when DPMS power saving mode was triggered.
Updated VDPAU to improve thread concurrency.See the README for details.
Altered NVIDIA X driver behavior in the case that no display devices are connected to the GPU.Previously, in this case, the NVIDIA X driver would pretend a CRT was connected to the GPU. Now, the NVIDIA X driver will not automatically pretend that any CRTs are connected.If the X driver does not detect any connected display devices, the X server will fail to start.
To restore the old behavior, use the ConnectedMonitor X configuration option; e.g.,
Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT"
Alternatively, if display is not desired, Quadro and Tesla GPU users can enable "NoScanout" mode, which bypasses any mode timing validation or use of display devices; this is configured with:
Option "UseDisplayDevice" "none"
Disabled software cursors when the driver is operating in "no scanout" (UseDisplayDevice "none") mode.The software cursor image is not visible in remote desktop applications or screenshots anyway, so having software cursor enabled was unnecessary.
Changed glXSwapBuffers() behavior for a pixmap such that it is now a no-op in the direct rendering case in order to match the indirect case and comply with the GLX spec. Previously, calling glXSwapBuffers() on pixmaps in the direct case would swap the pixmap's buffers if the pixmap was double buffered.
Modified the installation location and names of internal VDPAU libraries to conform to conventions and Debian packaging guidelines. New versions of libvdpau expect this layout. Compatibility with old versions of libvdpau is maintained with symlinks.
Fixed a bug that could cause errors in graphical applications run after a previous application using VDPAU and OpenGL. This behaviour was observed when running Gwenole Beauchesne's hwdecode-demos application.
Modified vdpau.h to increment VDPAU_VERSION, to reflect the fact that new features have been added in the past. Also, add the new define VDPAU_INTERFACE_VERSION.
Fixed a periodic temporary hang in the VDPAU blit-based presentation queue.
Fixed a problem that caused resolution limitations or corruption on certain DisplayPort devices such as the Apple 24" Cinema display or some DisplayPort to VGA adapters.
Disabled the UseEvents option for GeForce 8 series and higher GPUs due to a problem that causes occasional short hangs.It will be re-enabled when that bug has been tracked down and fixed.
VDPAU now allows multiple streams to be decoded at once, without the need to set any environment variables.

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 190.53 (Dec 17, 2009)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 190.42 (Oct 27, 2009)

Added support for OpenGL 3.2.
Updated the NVIDIA X driver to allow, on GeForce 8 or greater GPUs, more modes to validate on digital display devices whose EDIDs report very constrained HorizSync or VertRefresh ranges.
Fixedased the allowed amount of overscan compensation from 100 to 200.
On GPUs with VDPAU feature set B, VDPAU's handling of some corrupted or incorrectly formatted H.264 and MPEG streams has been improved.
Fixed a memory allocation problem with pre-GeForce 8 GPUs that caused GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap clients (e.g., Compiz, KDE 4) to display incorrect contents.
Added support for X.Org xserver 1.6.99.901 (also known as 1.7.0 RC1). Add a new OverscanCompensation NV-CONTROL attribute, available on GeForce 8 and higher. This option specifies the amount of overscan compensation to apply to the current mode. It is measured in raster pixels, i.e. pixels as specified in the current mode's backend timings.
Added GLX support for OpenGL 3.2 context profiles through the extension
GLX_ARB_create_context_profile.
Added support for IgnoreEDIDChecksum X configuration option, which can be used to force the X driver to accept the EDID of a display device even when the checksum is invalid. Please see the README IgnoreEDIDChecksum description for a caution and details of use.
Added support for configuring the GPU's fan speed; see the "Coolbits" X configuration option in the README.
Fixed a bug in VDPAU that could cause visible corruption near the bottom edge of the picture when decoding VC-1 simple/main profile clips whose heights are not exact multiples of 16 pixels, on GPUs with VDPAU feature set A.
On GPUs with VDPAU feature set C, VDPAU now supports decoding MPEG-4 Part 2, DivX 4, and DivX 5 video. The VDPAU API has been enhanced to expose this feature.
On GPUs with VDPAU feature set C, VDPAU now supports a higher quality video scaling algorithm. The VDPAU API has been enhanced to expose this feature.
Added code to reject screen modes based on available DisplayPort link bandwidth. Fixes display corruption caused by allowing high bandwidth modes on display devices that can't handle them, such as certain DisplayPort-to-VGA adapters that only support 2 DisplayPort lanes.
Fixed an initialization problem on some mobile GPUs.
Worked around X.Org X server Bugzilla bug #22804. This bug allows X clients to send invalid XGetImage requests to the hardware, leading to screen corruption or hangs. This was most commonly triggered by running JDownloader in KDE 4.
Fixed a crash in nvidia-settings displaying GPU information when in Xinerama.
Added GLX protocol support (i.e., for GLX indirect rendering) for the following OpenGL extensions:
GL_ARB_draw_buffers
GL_EXT_Cg_shader
GL_EXT_gpu_program_parameters
GL_NV_fragment_program
GL_NV_gpu_program4
GL_NV_register_combiners
GL_NV_vertex_program1_1
GL_NV_vertex_program2
Added unofficial GLX protocol support (i.e., for GLX indirect rendering) for the following OpenGL extensions:
GL_ARB_geometry_shader4
GL_ARB_shader_objects
GL_ARB_texture_buffer_object
GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object
GL_ARB_vertex_shader
GL_EXT_bindable_uniform
GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array
GL_EXT_geometry_shader4
GL_EXT_gpu_shader4
GL_EXT_texture_buffer_object
GL_NV_geometry_program4
GL_NV_vertex_program
GL_NV_parameter_buffer_object
GL_NV_vertex_program4
GLX protocol for GL_EXT_vertex_array was also updated to incorporate rendering using GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object. Use of these extensions with GLX indirect rendering requires the AllowUnofficialGLXProtocol X configuration option and the __GL_ALLOW_UNOFFICIAL_PROTOCOL environment variable.
Fixed glXQueryVersion to report GLX version 1.4. NVIDIA's GLX version has been 1.4 for several releases, and was already reported as 1.4 in the GLX client and GLX server version strings.
Fixed a problem that caused window border corruption when the screen is rotated.
Added support for configuring the GPU PowerMizer Mode on GeForce 8 or later GPUs with multiple performance levels via nvidia-settings and NV-CONTROL.

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 185.18.36 (Aug 24, 2009)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 185.18.31 (Aug 13, 2009)

Fixed a bug that could cause occasional memory corruption problems or segmentation faults when running OpenGL applications on Quadro GPUs.
Fixed a deadlock in the OpenGL library that could be triggered in certain rare circumstances on Quadro GPUs.
Fixed the order of outputs in the GPUScaling nvidia-settings property.
Fixed a bug that caused graphics corruption in some OpenGL applications when the Unified Back Buffer is enabled the application window is moved.
Fixed a bug that caused glXGetVideoSyncSGI, glXWaitVideoSyncSGI, and glXGetRefreshRateSGI to operate on the wrong screen when there are multiple X screens.
Fixed a bug that causes corruption or GPU errors when an application paints a redirected window whose background is set to ParentRelative on X.Org servers older than 1.5. This was typically triggered by running Kopete while using Compiz or Beryl.
Fixed a bug in VDPAU that could cause visible corruption when decoding H.264 clips with alternating frame/field coded reference pictures, and a video surface is concurrently removed from the DPB, and re-used as the decode target, in a single decode operation. This affected all GPUs supported by VDPAU.
Fixed a bug in VDPAU that could cause visible corruption near the bottom edge of the picture when decoding VC-1 advanced profile clips whose heights are not exact multiples of 16 pixels, on G98 and MCP7x (IGP) GPUs.
Enhanced VDPAU to better handle corrupt/invalid H.264 bitstreams on G84, G86, G92, G94, G96, or GT200 GPUs. This should prevent most cases of "display preemption" that are caused by bitstream errors.
Fixed an X server crash when using the VDPAU overlay-based presentation queue and VT-switching away from the X server.
Enhanced VDPAU's detection of the GPU's video decode capabilities.
Fixed a bug in VDPAU that could cause ghosting/flashing issues when decoding H.264 clips, in certain full DPB scenarios, on G98 and MCP7x.
Fixed VDPAU to detect an attempt to destroy the VdpDevice object when other device-owned objects still exist. VDPAU now triggers "display preemption", and returns an error, when this occurs.
Enhanced VDPAU's error handling and resource management in presentation queue creation and operation. This change correctly propagates all errors back to the client application, and avoids some resource leaks.

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 185.18.29 (Jul 29, 2009)

Fixed a bug that could cause occasional memory corruption problems or segmentation faults when running OpenGL applications on Quadro GPUs.
Fixed a deadlock in the OpenGL library that could be triggered in certain rare circumstances on Quadro GPUs.
Fixed the order of outputs in the GPUScaling nvidia-settings property.
Fixed a bug that caused graphics corruption in some OpenGL applications when the Unified Back Buffer is enabled the application window is moved.
Fixed a bug that caused glXGetVideoSyncSGI, glXWaitVideoSyncSGI, and glXGetRefreshRateSGI to operate on the wrong screen when there are multiple X screens.
Fixed a bug that causes corruption or GPU errors when an application paints a redirected window whose background is set to ParentRelative on X.Org servers older than 1.5. This was typically triggered by running Kopete while using Compiz or Beryl.
Fixed a bug in VDPAU that could cause visible corruption when decoding H.264 clips with alternating frame/field coded reference pictures, and a video surface is concurrently removed from the DPB, and re-used as the decode target, in a single decode operation. This affected all GPUs supported by VDPAU.
Fixed a bug in VDPAU that could cause visible corruption near the bottom edge of the picture when decoding VC-1 advanced profile clips whose heights are not exact multiples of 16 pixels, on G98 and MCP7x (IGP) GPUs.
Enhanced VDPAU to better handle corrupt/invalid H.264 bitstreams on G84, G86, G92, G94, G96, or GT200 GPUs. This should prevent most cases of "display preemption" that are caused by bitstream errors.
Fixed an X server crash when using the VDPAU overlay-based presentation queue and VT-switching away from the X server.
Enhanced VDPAU's detection of the GPU's video decode capabilities.
Fixed a bug in VDPAU that could cause ghosting/flashing issues when decoding H.264 clips, in certain full DPB scenarios, on G98 and MCP7x.
Fixed VDPAU to detect an attempt to destroy the VdpDevice object when other device-owned objects still exist. VDPAU now triggers "display preemption", and returns an error, when this occurs.
Enhanced VDPAU's error handling and resource management in presentation queue creation and operation. This change correctly propagates all errors back to the client application, and avoids some resource leaks.

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 185.18.14 (Jun 8, 2009)

Fixed a Xinerama drawable resource management problem that can cause GLXBadDrawable errors in certain cases, such as when Wine applications are run.
Fixed XineramaQueryScreens to return 0 screens instead of 1 screen with the geometry of screen 0 when XineramaIsActive returns false. This conforms to the Xinerama manual page and fixes an interaction problem with Compiz when there is more than one X screen.
Added support for new horizontal interlaced and checkerboard passive stereo modes.
Fixed a DisplayPort interaction problem with power management suspend/resume events.
Fixed occasional X driver memory management performance problems when a composite manager is running.
Fixed a bug with VT-switching or mode-switching while using Compiz; the bug could lead to a corrupted desktop (e.g., a white screen) or in the worst case an X server crash.
Fixed a bug that could cause GPU errors in some cases while driving Quadro SDI products.
Fixed a several second hang when VT-switching while OpenGL stereo applications were running on pre-G80 Quadro GPUs.
Added support for multiple swap group members on G80 and later Quadro GPUs.
Fixed the behavior of the NV_CTRL_FRAMELOCK_SYNC_DELAY NV-CONTROL attribute on Quadro G-Sync II.
Fixed a problem with Quadro SDI where transitioning from "clone mode" to "OpenGL mode" would fail.
Fixed VDPAU to eliminate some cases of corruption when decoding H.264 video containing field-coded reference frames on G84, G86, G92, G94, G96, or GT200 GPUs. Such streams are commonly found in DVB broadcasts.
Slightly improved the performance of the VDPAU noise reduction algorithm.
Enhanced VDPAU to validate whether overlay usage is supported by the current hardware configuration, and to automatically fall back to the blit-based presentation queue if required.
Fixed error checking in VdpVideoMixerRender, to reject calls that specify more layers than the VdpMixer was created with.
Modified VDPAU's VDPAU_DEBUG code to emit a complete backtrace on all platforms, not just on 32-bit Linux.
Improved interaction between VDPAU and PowerMizer; appropriate performance levels should now be chosen for video playback of all standard resolutions on all supported GPUs.
Fixed a bug in VDPAU that sometimes caused "display preemption" when the VdpDecoderCreate function failed.
Fixed a potential segfault in the VDPAU trace library, triggered by a multi-threaded application creating a new VdpDevice in one thread, at the same time that another thread detected "display preemption".

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 180.60 (Jun 1, 2009)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 180.51 (Apr 22, 2009)

New in Nvidia Solaris Display Driver 180.44 (Mar 31, 2009)

Added support for the following GPUs:
Quadro FX 3800
Quadro FX 3700M
Quadro FX 1800
Quadro FX 580
Quadro FX 380
Quadro NVS 295
Fixed a problem that could cause Xid errors and display corruption in certain cases when OpenGL is used to render to redirected windows, for example when Java2D is used with the -Dsun.java2d.opengl=true option.
Updated glGetStringi(GL_EXTENSIONS, i) to no longer return NULL in OpenGL 3.0 preview contexts.
Fixed OpenGL crashes while running KDE4's Plasma.
Fixed OpenGL crashes when using a large number of texture objects.
Fixed the timestamp reporting in the GL_NV_present_video extension on SDI II with Quadro FX 4800 and 5800.
Fixed a problem that caused the screen to flicker momentarily when OpenGL applications exit unexpectedly on GeForce 6 and 7 series GPUs.
Fixed an X server crash when an X client attempts to draw trapezoids and RenderAccel is disabled.
Improved recovery from certain types of errors.
Added support for RG renderbuffers in OpenGL 3.0.
Added support for OpenGL 3.0 floating-point depth buffers.
Fixed a problem that caused Valgrind to crash when tracing a program that uses OpenGL.
Updated VDPAU to support VC-1/WMV acceleration on all GPUs supported by VDPAU; see the README for details.
Fixed VDPAU corruption on some H.264 clips.
Updated VDPAU documentation in the README and in vdpau.h, in particular regarding how to use the deinterlacing algorithms in the VdpVideoMixer object. Explicitly documented "half rate" deinterlacing, which should allow the advanced algorithms to run on more low-end systems.
Implemented a "skip chroma deinterlace" option in VDPAU, which should allow the advanced deinterlacing algorithms to run on more low-end systems. See vdpau.h.
Fixed VDPAU VC-1 decoding on 64-bit platforms.
Updated the VDPAU wrapper library to print dlerror() messages when driver loading problems occur.
Improved VDPAU's handling of some corrupt H.264 streams, and some corrupt/invalid MPEG streams on some GPUs.
Fixed VDPAU to correctly handle WMV "range reduction" on some GPUs. A minor backwards-compatible API change was made for this; see vdpau.h's documentation for structure field VdpPictureInfoVC1.rangered.
Fixed a problem that caused surfaces to be marked as visible too early when the blit presentation queue is in use.
Fixed VDPAU to prevent some cases of "display preemption" in the face of missing H.264 reference frames on some GPUs.