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43. By Marc Deslauriers on 2012-08-05

* SECURITY UPDATE: privilege escalation via kernel memory access
  - debian/dkms/patches/blacklist-vga-pmu-registers.patch: blacklist
    more offsets in nv.{c,h}.
  - debian/dkms.conf{.in}: added new patch.
  - CVE number pending

42. By Marc Deslauriers on 2012-04-07

* SECURITY UPDATE: privilege escalation via kernel memory access
  (LP: #959842)
  - debian/dkms/patches/blacklist-register-mapping.patch: blacklist
    certain offsets in nv.{c,h}.
  - debian/dkms.conf{.in}: added new patch.
  - Thanks to NVIDIA for providing the patch.
  - CVE number pending

41. By Alberto Milone on 2011-04-20

* New upstream release:
  - Add support for X.Org xserver 1.10 (LP: #741930).
  - Improve compatibility with recent Linux kernels.

40. By Bryce Harrington on 2011-03-07

[ Andrea Carpineti ]
Fix typo in package description Geforce to GeForce
(LP: #639955)

39. By Alberto Milone on 2011-02-28

* debian/control{.in}:
  - Depend on ${xviddriver:Depends}.
* debian/rules:
  - Manually set video ABI compatibility to 8 so that the driver is not
    installable in applications such as Jockey or manually.
  - Correct comment about what the file is based on.

38. By Alberto Milone on 2011-01-07

Remove .patch files that were accidentally uploaded.

37. By Alberto Milone on 2011-01-07

* debian/nvidia-173.prerm{.in}:
  - Call dpkg-trigger with --by-package=$PACKAGE_NAME.
* Add support for blacklisting card ids from GRUB gfxpayload=keep:
  - In Natty gfxpayload=keep is set by default so as to provide a framebuffer
    early in the boot process. Some cards don't play nicely with it, therefore
    we need to blacklist them in a file. The format is a sequence of lines of
    the following form:
      vVENDORdDEVICEsvSUBVENDORsdSUBDEVICEbcBASECLASSscSUBCLASS
    Blacklist lines are regex-matched against a corresponding PCI ID string.
    In practice this means that you can replace any part of the ID string
    with .* to match anything.

36. By Martin Pitt on 2010-12-18

* Move from separate modalias file package to using a package header:
  - debian/control.in, debian/rules: Drop -modaliases package.
  - debian/control.in: Add XB-Modaliases header and dh-modaliases build
    dependency.
  - debian/rules: Build the modalias list to
    debian/nvidia-173.modaliases, where dh_modaliases picks it up, and
    invoke dh_modaliases.
  - debian/control.in: Add Conflicts:/Replaces: to nvidia-173-modaliases, so
    that the obsolete modaliases package gets cleaned up on upgrade.

35. By Alberto Milone on 2010-10-04

* New upstream release:
  - Add support for X.Org xserver 1.9 (LP: #626918).
* debian/rules:
  - Switch to new xsfbs variables to get the server ABI
    (LP: #616214).
* debian/nvidia-173.postinst{.in}:
  - Call dpkg-trigger with "--by-package".
* debian/dkms/patches/nvidia-2.6.36-ioctl.patch:
  - Add compatibility with kernel 2.6.36.

34. By Alberto Milone on 2010-07-16

* New upstream release:
  - Fixed a bug in the XvMC driver that prevented it from working on
    systems with AGP graphics cards.
  - Added support for X.Org xserver 1.8.
  - Fixed a bug that could cause X.Org xserver >= 1.7 to hang when
    restarted.