New nvidia drivers 177.76

[deanjo]

Changelog says this:

* Added support for the following new GPUs:

GeForce GTX 260
GeForce GTX 280
GeForce 9800 GTX+
GeForce 9800 GT
GeForce 9700M GTS
GeForce 8100P
nForce 780a SLI
nForce 750a SLI
Quadro FX 770M
Quadro NVS 160M
Quadro NVS 150M

* Improved support for RENDER masks, as well as RENDER repeating
modes and transformations, for video memory pixmaps.

* Added accelerated support for RENDER convolution filters for
video memory pixmaps on GeForce 8, 9 and GTX GPUs.

* Improved support for RENDER operations with the same source
and destination; this should performance in some
situations, e.g. when dragging Plasma applets in KDE4.

* Improved GPU video memory management coordination between the
NVIDIA X driver and OpenGL implementation; this should
improve performance with e.g. the KDE4 OpenGL compositing
manager.

* Added an 'AllowSHMPixmaps' X configuration option, which can
be used to prevent applications from using shared memory
pixmaps; the latter may cause some optimizations in the NVIDIA
X driver to be disabled.

* Fixed a text rendering performance regression that affected
GeForce 6 and 7 series GPUs.

* Added support for DisplayPort display devices (including
30-bit devices).

* Resolved various stability problems on GeForce 8, 9 and GTX
GPUs, as well as some GeForce 6 and 7 PCI-E GPUs.

* Fixed a bug that resulted in GPU errors when changing the
TwinView display configuration while using Compiz.

* Further improved the error recovery paths taken in case of GPU
command stream corruption.

* Removed an old workaround that caused incorrect Xinerama
information to be reported after enabling a second
TwinView display.

* Fixed the subpicture component order reported by the NVIDIA
X driver's XvMC implementation.

* Fixed a bug that caused GLXBadDrawable errors to be generated
when running more than one OpenGL application with
anti-aliasing enabled on GeForce 6 and 7 GPUs, e.g. wine.

Linux specific changes:

* Fixed a problem that could result in IRQs being disabled
on some multi-GPU SMP configurations.

* Worked around cache flushing problems (on some Linux kernels)
that caused corruption and stability problems.

* Added experimental support for PCI-E MSI.

* Fixed a bug that resulted in AGP FW/SBA settings and overrides
being applied incorrectly when using the Linux kernel's
AGP GART driver.

* Improved compatibility with recent Linux 2.6 kernels.

Solaris specific changes:

* Fixed a bug that caused intermittent kernel panics when stress
testing attach/detach paths.

FreeBSD specific changes:

* Fixed a bug that caused the kernel module to fail building
against some FreeBSD kernels.

* Fixed a bug that caused the kernel module to fail building
with FreeBSD AGPGART support enabled.

* Resolved an event-handling bug in the X driver responsible for
X server crashes upon starting a windowed OpenGL
application while using Compiz.

Can be found on the nvidia ftp

ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/

[Kano]

Nice to know, now standard in my nvidia script.