NVIDIA 396.45 Linux Driver Fixes Vulkan Direct-To-Display & Multi-Threaded EGL Apps

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NVIDIA 396.45 Linux Driver Fixes Vulkan Direct-To-Display & Multi-Threaded EGL Apps

The NVIDIA Unix developers have released the 396.45 binary display driver today with just two listed bug-fixes...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-396.45-Linux-Released

[tuke81]

Uhm whole list is on their linux forums:

Release highlights since 396.24:

• Added support for the following GPU:
  • TITAN V JHH Special Edition
• Improved recovery of Vulkan direct-to-display applications after an application hang or crash.
• Fixed a bug that could cause multi-threaded EGL applications to crash when exiting.
• Improved compatibility with recent Linux kernels.
• Fixed an intermittent hang of Vulkan applications running fullscreen when flipping is allowed.
• Removed informational messages that were printed by nvidia-modeset.ko whenever a GPU device was allocated or freed.
• Fixed a bug that could cause kernel panics when using Quadro SDI Capture hardware.
• Fixed a bug that caused kwin OpenGL compositing to crash when launching certain OpenGL applications.
• Fixed an intermittent crash when launching Vulkan applications.
• Fixed an intermittent crash when launching applications through Wine.
• Fixed a bug that caused the driver, in some low bandwidth DisplayPort configurations, to not implicitly enable display dithering. This resulted in visible banding.
• Fixed intermittent hangs of fullscreen Vulkan applications when focused away (e.g., by using the alt-tab key combination) on non-composited desktops.
• Increased the version numbers of the GLVND libGL, libGLESv1_CM, libGLESv2, and libEGL libraries, to prevent concurrently installed non-GLVND libraries from taking precedence in the dynamic linker cache.
• Updated the OpenGL driver to allow the use of integer format (SINT/UINT) color attachments with depth attachments in Frame Buffer Objects.

[edoantonioco]

does Xorg 1.20 + bumblebee works on this driver?

[theriddick]

Looks like a decent release, however I wish they would merge the fixes in the beta vulkan driver when moving to a higher version number as it is very confusing for people who might think this driver is newer/better then 396.24.10...

[bobwya]

Looks like a decent release, however I wish they would merge the fixes in the beta vulkan driver when moving to a higher version number as it is very confusing for people who might think this driver is newer/better then 396.24.10...

I agree... It's definitely not helpful in the slightest...

Especially for DXVK, not everyone is running Gentoo / Arch and can just easily install a developer edition of the nvidia drivers...