Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator

Production Version 14.37.50.2.5182

Release Notes

 

November 17, 2009

 

Microsoft Windows* XP

 

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Revision History

Date

Driver Revision

Description

Build Number

November 17, 2009

Production Version 14.37.50.2.5182

Production version; fully Validated

5182

September 28, 2009

Production Version 14.37.50.1.5134

Production version; fully Validated

5134

September 01, 2009

Production Version 14.37.50.5106

Production version; fully Validated

5106

September 01, 2009

Production Candidate 14.37.50.5106

Weekly engineering drop; not fully validated

5106

June 24, 2009

Beta 14.37.50.5080

Weekly engineering drop; not fully validated

5080

May 21, 2009

Beta 14.37.50.5072

Weekly engineering drop; not fully validated

5072

April 22, 2009

Beta 14.37.50.5052

Weekly engineering drop; not fully validated

5052

March 06, 2009

Alpha 14.37.50.5040

Weekly engineering drop; not fully validated

5040

February 19, 2009

Pre-Alpha 14.37.50.5033

Weekly engineering drop; not fully validated

5033

January 15, 2009

Pre-Alpha 14.37.50.5023

Weekly engineering drop; not fully validated

5023

Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator Driver

The Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator Driver contains support for the following Intel Chipsets:

·          Pineview Desktop Express Chipset

·          Pineview Mobile Express Chipset

New Features

Features Added in Baseline 14.37.50

Reference No.

Description

Affected Component(s)

Build

 

Enabled downscaler feature

SoftBIOS, Miniport

5052

Known Issues

Known Issues in Build 5182 – None for this release.

Reference No.

Description

Affected Component(s)

Affected OS(s)

Affected Project(s)

2955241

Age of Empires III - Flickering mouse pointer after launching game

GDI

Windows XP*
Windows XP*-64

Pineview Mobile

3001416

In ED with CRT+LFP and hot unplug CRT, LFP will remain in ED mode does not get refreshed.

Resource Manager

Windows XP*
Windows XP*-64

Pineview Mobile
Pineview Desktop

2954999

2D or 3D application rotated using CUI hotkeys, the resolution goes to 8Bit, 640X480

Rotation

Windows XP*
Windows XP*-64

Pineview Mobile
Pineview Desktop

3003544

Displays blank out (CRT & LFP) when CxSR is disabled by setting the Bit0 to 1 in register in FeatureTestControl for PWM configuration.

Video BIOS

Windows XP*

Pineview Mobile

3003688

When DVD movie is playing & rotation is performed, video goes black in all the other orientations.

Rotation

Windows XP*
Windows XP*-64

Pineview Mobile

2955287 & SV bug id 3359164

MCCS settings not displayed is CUI on connecting a MCCS supported VGA display.

CUI

Windows XP*
Windows XP*-64

Pineview Mobile
Pineview Desktop

2954997

CRT Blanks out in FSDOS but works fine in windowed mode.

GDI

Windows XP*

Pineview Mobile
Pineview Desktop

2954942

System fails to come in DDC mode on CRT hotplug event when driver persistence is enabled

NT - miniport
SoftBIOS

Windows XP*
Windows XP*-64

Pineview Mobile
Pineview Desktop

3002087

Rotation tab missing in CUI after resuming from S3 and S4

CUI

Windows XP*
Windows XP*-64

Pineview Mobile
Pineview Desktop

Issues Resolved

Issues Resolved in Build 5182

Reference No.

Description

Affected Component(s)

Affected OS(s)

Affected Project(s)

Bug ID: 3040189

Noise is got during audio playback when switching to CRT & LCD clone mode, after resuming from S3.

GDI

Windows* XP

Pineview Mobile

Root Cause:

Whenever we do a display switch, we find an audio glitch because of heavy CPU and I/O load in general by our gfx driver.

Fix:

This issue has been fixed in GDI component of the driver, which fixes these corruptions.

Bug ID: 3290286

Analog display becomes Default monitor if bitbashing bit is enabled in inf file

SoftBIOS

Windows* XP

Pineview Mobile

Root Cause:

When we set "BitBashingSupport" to 1 in inf and install gfx driver,  then this shows that Bit Bashing is used instead of GMBUS to read monitor EDID which is a bug.

Fix:

This issue has been fixed in SoftBIOS component of the driver.

Bug ID: 3175529

Display blackouts after one full round of ACPI-Hot key switch with FSDOS on

SoftBIOS

Windows* XP

Pineview Mobile

Root Cause:

This issue occurs because when we do ACPI display switch in FSDOS, a variable value in the SoftBIOS is being wrongly updated. Hence, when display tries to set Windowed mode, this variable returns a wrong value to the algorithm and the issue occurs.

Fix:

This issue has been fixed in SoftBIOS component of the driver.

Bug ID: 3289870

Black screen when hot plug CRT monitor to PNV-D system containing OS and graphics driver installed

SoftBIOS

Windows* XP

Pineview Desktop

Root Cause:

Issue is root caused, as CUI persistence is not giving a SetMode call after Hot plug CRT as CUI is assuming that there is no config change. In addition, the driver is turning off the port by error.

Fix:

This issue has been fixed in SoftBIOS component of the driver.

Bug ID: 3291078

Incorrectly formatted variables in custom mode strings 4606 and 4637

Loc Translation

Windows* XP

Pineview Mobile

Root Cause:

The values of the variables for custom mode strings 4606 and 4637 in the Loc Translation component of the driver was found to be incorrect.

Fix:

This issue has been corrected in Loc Translation component of the driver.

Bug ID: 3289683

Driver version in Control panel (Add/Remove programs) is shown as 0.0.0.000 if the driver is installed through Setup.exe

Gfx.Installer

Windows* XP
Windows* XP-64

Pineview Mobile
Pineview Mobile

Root Cause:

[PackageInfo] field was missing from XP inf files due to which error version was being displayed.

Fix:

This issue has been fixed by adding [PackageInfo] field in the XP inf file.

Issues Resolved in Build 5134

Reference No.

Description

Affected Component(s)

Affected OS(s)

Affected Project(s)

Bug ID: 3289425

Screen black screen during installation of VGA drivers in silent method on XP

Soft BIOS

Windows* XP

Pineview Desktop

Root Cause:

While installing driver through Silent install method, the driver was retrieving the hot plug status register value wrongly.

Fix:

CRT was being disabled since it was getting wrong hot plug status value during installation, This was fixed in SoftBIOS.

Issues Resolved in Build 5106

Reference No.

Description

Affected Component(s)

Affected OS(s)

Affected Project(s)

Bug ID: 3506351

Left-shifted display on secondary monitor

Driver

Windows* XP

Pineview Mobile

Details: 

The display of the secondary monitor is a little bit to the left side.

SVGA : 2dot to the left side

XGA : 1dot to the left side          

This occurs with every graphic mode, SingleDisplay, Clone, ExtendedDisplay. This issue has been fixed.

Issues Resolved in Build 5080

Reference No.

Description

Affected Component(s)

Affected OS(s)

Affected Project(s)

Bug ID: 3038341, 3038785

LVDS brightness is neither  increasing nor decreasing after resume from sleep on PWM configuration

Power Conservation

Windows* XP

Pineview Mobile

Root Cause: 

PC registers is not restored. Due to this, the complete Backlight Inverter Enabling Logic fails, ending up in non-functional Backlight keys.

Fix:

PWM register, which was not being restored after S3-resume, has been fixed.

Bug ID: 3003544

Display Blankouts (CRT and LFP) when CxSR (Intel® Rapid Memory Power Management) is disabled by setting the Bit0 to 1 in register in FeatureTestControl for PWM configuration.

VBIOS

Windows* XP
Windows* XP-64

Pineview Mobile

Root Cause:

VBIOS was not programming the right value when PWM inverted mode is selected from VBT and BIOS settings screen.

Fix:

VBIOS, which was corrupting the BLM duty, cycle while programming BLM frequency has been fixed now.

Bug ID: 3003568

PNV08-When Monitor + LVDS in Clone mode, resolution cannot be change to 1280x800 after setting other resolution previously.

NT-Miniport

Windows* XP

Pineview Desktop

Root Cause:

The issue occurs because in DDC. The mode list passed to CUI is different from the mode list that OS has.

Fix:

The enumeration of 12 X 8 @ 60 Hz was not done for OS in Clone mode, as done for CUI. A new function was added which generates a new mode list in case of Clone. This fixed the issue.

Issues Resolved in Build 5072

Reference No.

Description

Affected Component(s)

Affected OS(s)

Affected Project(s)

Bug ID: 787241

Self Refresh Residency was coming down when exited from S3(standby) and S4(Hibernate) state

NT-Miniport
SoftBIOS
PowerCons

Windows* XP

Pineview Mobile
Pineview Desktop

Root Cause:

The driver was not setting the chicken bits in GFX MMIO, due to which SR residency was dropping, which has been fixed now.

Fix:

This has been fixed in Miniport and Power Conservation components.

Issues Resolved in Build 5052

Reference No.

Description

Affected Component(s)

Affected OS(s)

Affected Project(s)

Bug ID: 3002720

Television & Digital Display options are listed in OS property page in Advance settings.

CUI

Windows* XP
Windows* XP-64

Pineview Mobile
Pineview Desktop

Root Cause: 

Digital Display and TV are not POR for PNV platform. CUI by default is showing all devices options in Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator Driver for Mobile under OS properties page. These options need to be removed from the page. This is a CUI bug.

Fix:

TV and DFP has been hidden now in OS properties page.

Bug ID: 2955287

For MCCS monitor, "Advanced Settings" tab is missing in CUI

SoftBIOS

Windows* XP

Pineview Mobile
Pineview Desktop

Root Cause: 

Driver is sending back signals to CUI that monitor is not supporting MCCS. Hence, CUI is not showing Advance Settings button. 

Fix:

This has been fixed in SoftBIOS.

Bug ID: 3002204

CUI Hot Key Ctrl+alt+f1 goes to DDC mode after unplugging CRT1 and the Plugging Back CRT1

CUI

Windows* XP
Windows* XP-64

Pineview Mobile

Root Cause: 

When ctrl+alt+F1 is pressed, CRT is identified and is tried to switch. CUI is reading EDID data, getting monitor code from registry, and getting it from driver. Comparing it, if both were not matching then monitor ID is not filled and hence driver is suggesting optimal config to DDC. This monitor ID is missing because of monitor code coming from registry is wrong. This is a bug in CUI – The monitor code needs to be correctly stored in registry and retrieved.

Fix:

In XP, the EDID is not written in the registry and is not checked while getting UID of the device. This fixes the issue.

Bug ID: 3002240

LFP blackouts in Extended mode when configures to CRT+LFP in DC mode.

Power Conservation

Windows* XP
Windows* XP-64

Pineview Mobile

Root Cause: 

This issue happens only with PWM method is used to control brightness and selected from VBIOS and CMOS.

However, with EDS CRT+LFP the programming sequence is wrong. Therefore, display blacks out. This is a problem with PC with programming sequence when LFP is secondary in EDS using PWM method.

Fix:

Updating the structure being passed to PowerCons with correct display config fixes the issue.

Bug ID: 3002087

Rotation tab missing in CUI after resuming from S3 and S4

CUI

Windows* XP

Pineview Mobile

Root Cause: 

This is because when CUI queries rotation feature supported or not after S3/S4, it is getting information as not supported. Because during Resume, the CDS call fails as OS is not finished with enumeration.

Fix:

The proper mode enumeration to OS is now taken care of by the driver and fixes the issue.

Issues Resolved in Build 5040

Reference No.

Description

Affected Component(s)

Affected OS(s)

Affected Project(s)

Bug ID: 2954725

Balloon notification is not popping up when resolution was set to non native from native resolution

CUI

Windows XP*
Windows Vista*

Pineview Mobile
Pineview Desktop

Root Cause: 

This issue is seen both on CRT legacy monitors without EDID and on monitors with EDID monitors. The balloon notification for optimal mode is not showing up. 

For Legacy monitors, when CUI is querying data for native mode, the driver is returning x as 0 and y as 0, so CUI is not populating any optimal mode and balloon notification not seen. This is expected behavior when VBT does not have a maximum mode mentioned in VBT. However, when VBT has maximum mode, then balloon notification should come up and this is an issue.

For monitors with EDID, balloon notification is not coming up and this is an issue as well.

Fix:

CUI component code change now fixes the issue on monitors with EDID and on non-EDID monitors with maximum supported mode set in the VBT.

Bug ID: 2954997

CRT Blanks out does not return to command prompt in FSDOS.

GDI

Windows* XP

Pineview Mobile
Pineview Desktop

Root Cause: 

When FSDOS is set on CRT then display blanks out. This issue is not seen with LVDS display.

Fix:

For Native VGA modes, VGA MSR based control did not work. Hence now moved to using 'Disabled VGA control' mode for such instances.

Issues Resolved in Build 5033

Reference No.

Description

Affected Component(s)

Affected OS(s)

Affected Project(s)

Bug ID:

 

 

 

 

Root Cause:

Issues Resolved in Build 5023

Reference No.

Description

Affected Component(s)

Affected OS(s)

Affected Project(s)

Bug ID:

 

 

 

 

Root Cause: