The NVIDIA driver in the lrm-envy doesn't support Geforce 9xxx

[Alberto Milone]

The NVIDIA driver in the lrm-envy (169.12) doesn't support Geforce 9xxx cards and certain 8xxx cards.

Here are the release highlights for driver 173.14.05:
    * Added support for the following new GPUs:
          o Quadro FX 3600M
          o GeForce 9800 GX2
          o GeForce 9800 GTX
          o GeForce 9600 GT
          o GeForce 9600 GSO
          o GeForce 9500M GS
          o GeForce 8400
          o GeForce 8400 GS
    * Added support for Quadro FX 5600/4600 SDI and Quadro G-Sync II.
    * Resolved a bug causing left and right eyes to be reversed in stereo mode on some Quadro FX GPUs.
    * Fixed a problem that caused OpenGL to stop rendering to windows with origins at or beyond 4096 pixels (horizontally) on GeForce 8 and 9 GPUs.
    * Fixed a bug causing some Quadro FX 4500 SDI configurations to take a long time to achieve synchronization.
    * Added preliminary support for X.Org server 1.5.
    * Addressed a problem causing visual corruption when using GeForce 8 GPUs to drive Chi Mei 56" displays.
    * Addressed visual corruption when driving Cintiq 20WSX wide format tables with some GeForce 6 and 7 GPUs.
    * Fixed OpenGL rendering corruption with textures compressed using the DXT5 compression algorithm.
    * Fixed a regression that caused invalid EDIDs to be detected for the internal display device on some notebooks.
    * Improved hotkey switching and power management support on some GeForce 8 notebooks.
    * Fixed a regression causing some GeForce 6100/6150 systems to fail to restore the screen after DPMS cycles.
    * Fixed a bug that prevented the console from being restored correctly in SLI mode on GeForce 6 and 7 GPUs.
    * Fixed interlaced modes on GeForce 8 GPUs.
    * Fixed a problem that caused the synchronization signal polarity to always be positive for DVI devices on GeForce 8 and 9 GPUs.
    * Resolved a problem resulting in X startup to fail on some GeForce 8 and 9 systems without swap space.
    * Fixed a bug resulting in X crashes when using GeForce 8 and 9 GPUs in SLI to drive X screens at depth 8.
    * Fixed a problem that caused TV output on secondary TVs to be black and white on some GPUs.
    * Restored compatibility with recent Linux 2.6 kernels.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Sponsored and uploaded to the queue. Waiting for motu-sru's ack now (subscribed them).

[Stephan Rügamer (sruegamer)]

Ack from me, if there are no regressions in hardy because of "Added preliminary support for X.Org server 1.5."

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Accepted into -proposed, please test and give feedback here

[Gene Caldwell (gene-caldwell)]

I installed and tested on both 32bit and 64bit, installs just fine, I did get a warning that the sanity check could not be preformed due to multiple nvidia.ko's found in the kernel 2.6.24.19(32 bit pc), however it did not seem to cause problems. ( I thought I had removed previous kernels completely from system - .17, .18 ect)

The new driver seems to solve a video corruption issue I have had for over a year now on the upgraded 8.04 32bit system yea ! every time I ran nvidia-settings I would get very strange video corruption in GE and an OGL game foobilliard, and also with OGL screensavers this is now solved ! the new driver feels more brisk.

on 64 bit system, I had/have no problems to report at all.

both systems running full compiz effects for max eye-candy. all OGL programs run flawless. glxgears show normal results, no speed loss, no real gain either.

so in short, one bug solved where nvidia-settings caused corruption in OGL applications(and screensavers) with old nvidia drivers, new driver runs with out issues.

[Fernando Carlos de Sousa (fernandoanatomia)]

Worked fine for my GEFORCE 8500 GT. I'm using Hardy 32 bit.

I'm waiting for envy tho handle the new ATI driver, since following phoronix.com it has a lot of new utilities.

Thank you guys!

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

bug 239536 seems to be related to this update.

[MartinHein (martinhein81)]

The driver works fine on my Ubuntu Hardy Heron i386 box. I have Geforce 7600 GT grafic card.
I use Compiz, Compiz Fusion and Screenlets. Your recent driver cause no restriction for this application.

Thank you very much for your awesome work!!

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

Cesare: thanks, I'll deal with it.

[Christoph Lukas (christoph-lukas)]

I am seeing a regression using compiz with the new driver.
Windows which have lost the focus show corrupted decorations.
Screenshot attached.

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G72M [Quadro NVS 110M/GeForce Go 7300] (rev a1)

[David (david-latribu)]

Same corrupted decoration problem with the new driver. The decorations are lost when I've the pointer over the button minimize or close application.

00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 6100 nForce 405 (rev a2)

[Alex Karpenko (alexkarpenko)]

This driver also fixes some 2D rendering regressions in 169.12 which seems to affect quite a few people, see first and last post here:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=109764

The new driver works fine on a Geforce 8600 GT.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Copied to hardy-updates.

[Nazz (mklose77)]

envy doesn't work on intrepid just yet i suppose. Besides I am still experiencing massive problems trying to upgrade Ubuntu on my geforce 6100 nforce 405 hardware. xorg.conf get messed up after install. How long has this been a problem?

[K4r1m (k4r1m)]

i could confirm that 8800 GTS 640mb doesn't work with inrepid 64 bit with 173, i had to get 177 to get xorg to load.