1<html> 2<head> 3<title>Changes</title> 4</head> 5<body> 6<p><h2>Changes done for each driverversion:</h2></p> 7<p><h1>head: nv_driver 0.09-1, (Rudolf)</h1></p> 8<ul> 9 <li>Fixed NV11 trouble with repeating screen(s) on the right side of the monitor. 10</ul> 11<p><h1>nv_driver 0.08, (Rudolf)</h1></p> 12<ul> 13 <li>Fixed GeForceFX 5600 and FX 5700 monitor 'refresh out of range' / shutoff fault. nVidia changed the pixelPLL for the NV31 and NV36; 14 <li>Fixed acceleration engine restrictions code to adhere to GeForceFX 5600 restrictions: those are still NV20 style for this card; 15 <li>Fixed overlay scaling restriction code to adhere to GeForceFX 5600 restrictions: engine is still the NV10/NV20 one, so it can downscale to 1/8 of the picture size; 16 <li>Kernel driver now signals abort on not being able to setup the INT routine instead of letting the machine freeze during accelerant initialisation; 17 <li>BWindowScreen R3-style function update for acceleration and page flipping/virtualscreens in apps ('Allegro' update): fixed cloning accelerants; 18 <li>Now only programming options head select register on dualhead cards. This fixes driver hanging on integrated GeForce2 cards (ID 0x01a0), and maybe also on some other cards; 19 <li>Expanded modelist to include suggested modes above 1600x1200 upto 2048x1536 resolution (if a card supports them): Done by Andrew Bachmann; 20 <li>Added card recognition for GeForceFX 5700, FX 5950 and some other (older) cards; 21 <li>Added 256Mb RAM detection; 22 <li>Improved startup code: this should (could) fix random trouble on some cards like for instance hardcursor trouble on especially laptops; 23 <li>Added dualhead support (use Mark Watson's 'Dualhead Setup' from BeBits for now); 24 <li>Updated mode granularity and max virtual size checking/limiting; 25 <li>Added dualhead support for 8- and 15bit colordepths; 26 <li>Fixed move_display distortions in virtualscreens especially visible in 8-bit colordepth (for both heads); 27 <li>Added 'overlay follows head' for dualhead stretch and switch modes: if more than half the overlay output window is on a screen, that screen gets the overlay output; 28 <li>Added dualhead switch mode (except for NV11 cards as they do not have output connector switching capability); 29 <li>Added monitor presence detection for both monitor output connectors on dualhead cards (analog type signals only); 30 <li>Added 'output follows monitor' for all modes: it does not matter on which connector you connect your monitor, the output will go there after setting a mode; like the card's BIOS does (except for NV11 cards as they do not have output connector switching capability). 31</ul> 32<p><h1>nv_driver 0.07 (Rudolf)</h1></p> 33<ul> 34 <li>Added card recognition for some Nvidia GeForce4 Ti 4600 cards (ID 0x0252); 35 <li>GeForce overlay activation updated: hardware should respond to the first request instead of to the second ('stampTV' update); 36 <li>Included B_YCbCr422 hardware overlay for TNT 1/2 class cards (pre NV10 architecture). 37</ul> 38<p><h1>nv_driver 0.06 (Rudolf)</h1></p> 39<ul> 40 <li>Added full 2D acceleration for TNT1 - GeForce FX cards; 41 <li>Added card recognition for GeForce FX Go and some older laptop cards; 42 <li>Implemented retrace synchronisation (INT routine); 43 <li>Geforce overlay updated: turned off ints explicitly, corrected upscaling restriction to be 8x, small speed improvement; 44 <li>Vertical timing updated: missed a register on all GeForce cards, missed another register on older cards; 45 <li>Register unlocking updated: missed a register on all supported cards. 46</ul> 47<p><h1>nv_driver 0.05 (Rudolf)</h1></p> 48<ul> 49 <li>Update on cursor move routine: pointer will nolonger accept illegal left-top positions. As a result it will nolonger vanish on some cards; 50 <li>Fixed hardware overlay on GeForce4 MX and Go series cards: disabled the embedded MPEG2 decoder engine which exist on these cards only; 51 <li>Fixed driver to adhere to the downscaling limitations of the new overlay engine existing in the GeForceFX series cards. 52</ul> 53<p><h1>nv_driver 0.04 (Rudolf)</h1></p> 54<ul> 55 <li>New cursor_move sync_to_retrace for all supported cards: now all display distortions should be gone (GeForce4 for example); 56 <li>Added hardware overlay support for the entire GeForce series cards; 57 <li>Now powering up all card function blocks: dualhead cards should now switch to the connected head (by it's BIOS) instead of hanging the system on boot (tested on a dualhead GeForce4 with a DVI and a VGA connector). 58</ul> 59<p><h1>nv_driver 0.03 (Rudolf)</h1></p> 60<ul> 61 <li>Prevent system or video freeze on dragging files or so in tracker windows; 62 <li>Pre NV10 cursor sync_to_retrace: no more distortions in cursor bitmaps on moving it; 63 <li>Cursor bitmapadress setup modification for laptops: The cursor should be visible now also on 'Go' type of cards; 64 <li>BWindowScreen / Sync_to_retrace fix: prevent apps from crashing on endless waiting for retrace. Wait_for_retrace is temporary disabled now until it's actually implemented. 65</ul> 66<p><h1>nv_driver 0.02 (Rudolf)</h1></p> 67<ul> 68 <li>hardcursor support; 69 <li>virtual screens / BWindowScreen support including panning/scrolling; 70 <li>colorspace selection; 71 <li>colorpalette setup; 72 <li>refreshrate selection; 73 <li>85 cards of 4 brands are detected now: These are all TNT1 - GeForce FX5900 Ultra cards as far as I know. Hopefully all those cards will actually work OK with the driver; 74 <li>DPMS support; 75 <li>resolution selection (CRTC setup); 76 <li>switch to 'enhanced mode' included: VESA is gone now! 77 <li>cardspecs are setup (faked PINS); 78 <li>several small fixes done to get the driver working correctly on all four of my cards: PCI TNT1, AGP TNT1, AGP TNT2 and AGP GeForce2MX400. 79</ul> 80<p><h1>Still todo:</h1></p> 81<ul> 82 <li>Add support for internal display panels (laptops); 83 <li>TVout support; 84 <li>Partial card coldstart: setup RAM and CORE speeds (if possible). 85</ul> 86</p> 87</body> 88</html> 89