update request: nVidia ver 180.27, pre-release

[Noel J. Bergman]

Please upgrade the repositories for nvidia-glx-180 from 180.22 to 180.27.

180.25 Release Highlights:

    * Added support for the following GPUs:
          o GeForce GTX 295
          o GeForce GTX 285
          o GeForce 9300 GE
          o Quadro NVS 420
    * Fixed a bug that caused VDPAU to display a green screen when using the overlay-based presentation queue with interlaced modes.
    * Fixed a bug that prevented VDPAU from working correctly after X server restarts on some GPUs.
    * Improved VDPAU's handling of mode switches; eliminated a crash in its mode switch recovery code and a hang in the blit-based presentation queue.
    * Fixed a bug that caused VDPAU to crash when using DisplayPort devices.
    * Fixed a potential hang in VDPAU when using the blit-based presentation queue on systems with multiple GPUs not in SLI mode.
    * Implemented missing error checking of layer data in VDPAU's VdpVideoMixerRender function.
    * Improved VDPAU's handling of setups with multiple GPUs, if a subset of the GPUs cannot be supported due to resource limitations.
    * Improved GPU video memory management coordination between the NVIDIA X driver and VDPAU.
    * Fix potential hang in VDPAU when the overlay is already in use.
    * Improved workstation OpenGL performance.
    * Fixed an X driver acceleration bug that resulted in Xid errors on GeForce 6 and 7 series GPUs.
    * Updated the X driver to consider GPUs it does not recognize supported, allowing it to drive some GPUs it previously ignored.
    * Added the ability to run distribution provided pre- and post- installation hooks to 'nvidia-installer'; please see the 'nvidia-installer' manual page for details.
    * Updated the X driver's metamode parser to allow mode names with periods (i.e. '.'s).
    * Fixed a problem with hotkey switching on some recent mobile GPUs.
    * worked around a power management regression in and improved compatibility with recent Linux 2.6 kernels.

See http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=1914053

It is reported that this version fixes suspend / resume for the 180 series (Bug 306315).

180.27 Release Highlights:

Added support for OpenGL 3.0 for GeForce 8 series and newer GPUs.

[Noel J. Bergman (noeljb)]

Alberto,

Thank you. :-) While you are at it, could you please see that nvidia-settings gets updated, too? Bug 315667.

[lemonade (lemonade)]

I guess this is already old driver now. 180.27 is newest - http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=127073

[Gareth Hart (tghe-retford)]

People who have already tested the graphic drivers on the Ubuntu Forums have reported that 180.27 no longer requires users to enable the 'IgnoreABI' option to get the driver to work: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6639205&postcount=16, and considering the praise from others who have used 180.27, it would be nice to see this included in Jaunty as soon as is possible.

[Anders Kaseorg (andersk)]

180.27 is still a pre-release, not a stable release <http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=122606>. Still a worthwhile upgrade if it no longer requires IgnoreABI.

[Gareth Hart (tghe-retford)]

Contrary to my earlier post, someone else on the aforementioned thread on Ubuntu Forums has reported they still needed to add 'IgnoreABI' to their xorg.conf file. So I don't know why other forum members have said it isn't needed. Oh well - we shall find out once 180.27 is in the repositories.

[Anders Kaseorg (andersk)]

I am now using the 180.27 drivers, and they don’t require IgnoreABI.

If anyone else is interested, packages are available in my PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~anders-kaseorg/+archive/ppa

[rsidd (rsidd)]

Anders, thanks for the packages. 180.27 works nicely for me -- suspend/resume works and the whole thing feels smoother than 177.x.

[jhfhlkjlj (fdsuufijjejejejej-deactivatedaccount)]

Yes, thanks a boatload, Anders. That driver did wonky things to my system trying to manually install it (yes, I did it right).

Suspend/Resume works for me!

[Noel J. Bergman (noeljb)]

Anders, do you want to post that up for Intrepid as well? :-)

[Klaus S. Madsen (ubuntu-hjernemadsen)]

I've downloaded the non-dev packages and installed them on my Intrepid system with dpkg. That worked without any problem at all. Remember that from intrepid, the nVidia modules are using DKMS, so the modules are automatically recompiled to the currently installed kernel version.

And suspend works, which it didn't do with the 180.11 packages.

[Anders Kaseorg (andersk)]

Noel, sure. It’s now compiled for both Jaunty and Intrepid.
https://launchpad.net/~anders-kaseorg/+archive/ppa

[Noel J. Bergman (noeljb)]

Thanks, Anders. I've replaced mine with yours (since yours is visible to the public), tested on Jaunty and Intrepid. They work. So folks who don't want to build their own (or install directly) can just add your PPA, add the PPA key, and install.

Suspend & resume works for both Intrepid (with caveats related to a different and more minor bug) and Jaunty using 180.27.

[Sel Goona (alieneye)]

Thank U Anders! 180.27 is running great here on Intrepid!

[vladi.boffi (vladi-boffi)]

Thanks
My 9500M GS works well
I've also removed ignoreABI in my xorg.conf, it works
ciao

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 - 180.27-0ubuntu1

---------------
nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 (180.27-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * New upstream release. Supports the new X.org ABI (LP: #308410, #322416)
    * Added support for the following GPUs:
       o GeForce GTX 295
       o GeForce GTX 285
       o GeForce 9300 GE
       o Quadro NVS 420
    * Fixed a bug that caused VDPAU to display a green screen when using the
      overlay-based presentation queue with interlaced modes.
    * Fixed a bug that prevented VDPAU from working correctly after X server
      restarts on some GPUs.
    * Improved VDPAU's handling of mode switches; eliminated a crash in its
      mode switch recovery code and a hang in the blit-based presentation queue.
    * Fixed a bug that caused VDPAU to crash when using DisplayPort devices.
    * Fixed a potential hang in VDPAU when using the blit-based presentation
      queue on systems with multiple GPUs not in SLI mode.
    * Implemented missing error checking of layer data in VDPAU's VdpVideoMixerRender
      function.
    * Improved VDPAU's handling of setups with multiple GPUs, if a subset of the
      GPUs cannot be supported due to resource limitations.
    * Improved GPU video memory management coordination between the NVIDIA X driver
      and VDPAU.
    * Fix potential hang in VDPAU when the overlay is already in use.
    * Improved workstation OpenGL performance.
    * Fixed an X driver acceleration bug that resulted in Xid errors on GeForce 6 and
      7 series GPUs.
    * Updated the X driver to consider GPUs it does not recognize supported, allowing
      it to drive some GPUs it previously ignored.
    * Added the ability to run distribution provided pre- and post- installation hooks
      to 'nvidia-installer'; please see the 'nvidia-installer' manual page for details.
    * Updated the X driver's metamode parser to allow mode names with periods (i.e. '.'s).
    * Fixed a problem with hotkey switching on some recent mobile GPUs.
    * worked around a power management regression in and improved compatibility with
      recent Linux 2.6 kernels.
    * Added support for OpenGL 3.0 for GeForce 8 series and newer GPUs.
  * debian/nvidia-glx-180.preinst:
    - Correct typo in the removal of diversions of /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
  * debian/nvidia-glx-180.postrm.in
    - Do not remove libGL.so (LP: #309116)
  * debian/nvidia-glx-180-dev.preinst.in:
    - Add diversion on /usr/lib/libGL.so since (the postrm tries to remove it already)
  * debian/scriptremove.sh:
    - Remove from source.

 -- Alberto Milone (tseliot) <email address hidden> Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:36:09 +0100

[Carsten Gräser (graeser)]

Please also update the nvidia-glx-180 package in intrepid to solve the suspend issue.