Driver Update: Nvidia XFree86 4.0 OpenGL Drivers

Saint NightMare writes: “Nvidia has crushed a new build (v 0.93) on its online support site† These drivers offer improved AGP support (the previous builds were good at smashing my X-Sessions when I turned on AGP) and some bugs have been flattened again. More information can be found in the FAQ† Here’s a snippet from the release notes”:

2000-06-08 version 0.9-3

* allow Modeline directives in the XF86Config file to override our auto-detection of monitor resolutions and refresh rates

* “correct” fix for TNT memory-type problems

* fix for VT switch lockups

* fix for general ALI chipset lockups

* addition and documentation of some registry keys Check os-registry.c in the kernel source directory for more details and options.

* Work around Quake3 mode switch crashing bug. Note: It’s really a bug in dlopen()

* major improvement in multi-threading behavior

* dlist sharing with glXCreateContext works now

* faster implementation of glTexImage/glTexSubImage and glCopyTexImage/glCopytexSubImage calls

* Fixed kernel memory leak, relating to threaded OpenGL This problem was most noticeable with xmms.

* Fix build problems with older 2.2.x kernels (RedHat 6.0)