De ontwikkelaars van Nvidia hebben enkele dagen geleden een nieuwe set bètadrivers voor Linux uitgebracht met ditmaal 180.06 als het versienummer. De Linux Display Drivers zijn verschenen voor Linux x86, Linux amd64/em64t, Freebsd x86 en Solaris x86/x64 en voegen voornamelijk ondersteuning voor Cuda 2.1 toe. De bijbehorende lijst met aanpassingen ziet er als volgt uit:
Release Highlights:Linux:
- Added support for CUDA 2.1.
- Added initial support for PureVideo-like features on Linux via the new VDPAU API (see the vdpau.h header file installed with the driver).
- Added new workstation performance optimizations.
- Enabled the X Render "GlyphCache" by default.
- Disabled shared memory X pixmaps by default; see the “AllowSHMPixmaps" option.
- Fixed a regression that could result in window decoration corruption when running Compiz using Geforce 6 and 7 series GPUs.
- Improved X pixmap placement on GeForce 8 series and later GPUs.
- Improved stability on some GeForce 8 series and newer GPUs.
FreeBSD:
- Improved compatibility with recent Linux kernels.
- Updated the X driver to properly detect/report the system's ACPI power state (AC/battery).
- If you are using FreeBSD 6.x, you will need to make sure that the 'compat5x' package is installed.
- The 'nvidia-settings' utility can be built from source if the binary included in the 180.06.tar.gz package doesn't work (e.g. due to a ports/ library version conflict).