Linux, Solaris, and FreeBSD driver 343.13 (beta)

aplattner · August 6, 2014, 3:25pm

Release highlights since 340.24:

Added support for the following GPUs:
- GeForce 830A
- GeForce 810M
Fixed a bug that caused disabled displays to be implicitly included in the target selection for some queries and assignments on the nvidia-settings command line interface, in the absence of any explicit target selection.
Added a new attribute to the NV-CONTROL API to query the current utilization of the video decode engine.
Fixed a bug where the Exchange Stereo Eyes setting in nvidia-settings didn't work in certain stereo configurations.
Worked around a Unigine Heaven 3.0 shader bug which could cause corruption when tessellation is enabled by implementing an application profile that uses the "GLIgnoreGLSLExtReqs" setting. See the documentation for the __GL_IGNORE_GLSL_EXT_REQS environment variable for more details.
Fixed a memory leak when destroying EGL surfaces.
Added support for multiple simultaneous EGL displays.
Removed support for G8x, G9x, and GT2xx GPUs, and motherboard chipsets based on them. Ongoing support for new Linux kernels and X servers, as well as fixes for critical bugs, will be included in 340.* legacy releases through the end of 2019.
Fixed a bug that could cause nvidia-installer to unsuccessfully attempt to delete the directory containing precompiled kernel module interfaces, on packages prepared with --add-this-kernel.
Updated nvidia-installer to log uninstallation to a separate file from the installation log, and to attempt uninstalling previous driver installations using the installer program from the previous installation, when available.
Fixed a regression that prevented the internal stereo infrared emitter built into some 3D Vision monitors from working.
Fixed a bug that could cause some Java-based OpenGL applications using JOGL to crash on startup on systems with Xinerama enabled.
Fixed a bug that could prevent OpenGL Framebuffer Objects (FBOs) from being properly redrawn after a modeswitch.
Fixed a memory leak that occurred when starting OpenGL applications.
Fixed a bug that prevented the EDID-Like Data (ELD) of audio-capable displays from being updated when hotplugged/unplugged.
Fixed a bug that caused Xid errors when using stereo mode 12 (HDMI 3D) on Quadro boards without an onboard stereo DIN connector.
Fixed a video corruption issue for VDPAU decoding of VC-1 and WMV video streams utilizing range remapping on Maxwell GPUs.
Fixed a "black window" bug in Ubuntu 14.04 when using the Xinerama and Composite extensions.
Fixed a bug that caused the screen's contents to be shifted downward when a G-SYNC monitor is unplugged and replaced by a non-G-SYNC monitor.
Fixed a bug that prevented G-SYNC from working when a G-SYNC monitor was unplugged and plugged back in without a modeset.
Fixed a bug that could cause framelock status to be incorrectly reported in the nvidia-settings control panel on some multi-GPU framelock configurations.
Improved the performance of OpenGL applications that request a large number of GPU mappings via the GL_NV_shader_buffer_load extension.
Fixed a bug that could cause a system crash when killing applications that use NVIDIA GPUs on multiple-GPU systems with IOMMU functionality enabled.
Fixed a bug that caused the NVIDIA kernel module to leak memory for DMA mappings on some configurations.
Updated nvidia-installer to avoid writing to non-zero offsets of sysctl files in /proc/sys/kernel.