Ny driver for Nvidiakort - versjon 169.07

Da er den etterlengtede nye versjonen av Nvidia's grafikkdriver lansert. Driveren har mange oppdateringer fra siste versjon som var 100.19.14. Tester av betaen indikerer opp mot 15-18% forbedret ytelse på et Nvidia 8600 kort, og stabiliteten for bruk med Compiz forventes nå å være i orden. Man kan forvente at denne driveren vil være ute i repoene for de enkelte distroer rimelig kjapt. Driveren er allerede tilgjengelig for OpenSuse 10.3

Her er listen over forbedringer sakset fra Nvidias egne sider:

* Added support for GeForce 8800 GT, GeForce 8800 GTS 512 and GeForce 8800M.
* Added CUDA driver to .run file.
* Fixed several X rendering issues.
* Fixed problems scrolling ARGB X drawables in Qt.
* Improved support for interlaced DVI, HDMI, and HDTV modesetting.
* Improved modesetting support on Quadro/GeForce 8 series GPUs.
* Fixed stability problems with some GeForce 8 series GPUs.
* Fixed stability problems with some GeForce 6200/7200/7300 GPUs multi-core/SMP systems.
* Improved hotkey switching support for some Lenovo notebooks.
* Fixed a problem with Compiz after VT-switching.
* Improved RENDER performance.
* Improved interaction with Barco and Chi Mei 56" DFPs, as well as with some Gateway 19" DFPs.
* Added an interface to monitor PowerMizer state information.
* Fixed rendering corruption in Maya's Graph Editor.
* Improved interaction between SLI AFR and swap groups on certain Quadro FX GPUs.
* Fixed a bug that caused corruption with redirected XV on GPUs without TurboCache support.
* Improved display device detection on GeForce 8 series GPUs.
* Improved usability of NVIDIA-settings at lower resolutions like 1024x768 and 800x600.
* Improved GLX visual consolidation when using Xinerama with Quadro/GeForce 8 series and older GPUs.
* Added experimental support for running the X server at Depth 30 (10 bits per component) on Quadro G8x and later GPUs.
* Worked around a Linux kernel/toolchain bug that caused soft lockup errors when suspending on some Intel systems.