Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator

Production Version 15.15.3.1855

Release Notes

 

July 31, 2009

 

Microsoft Windows* 7

 

INTEL CONFIDENTIAL

 

 

Revision History

Date

Driver Revision

Description

Build Number

July 31, 2009

Production Version 15.15.3.1855

Production Version; Fully validated

1855

July 31, 2009

Production Candidate 15.15.3.1855

Production Candidate; Fully validated

1855

July 24, 2009

Production Version 15.15.2.1851

Production Version; Fully validated

1851

July 24, 2009

Production Candidate 15.15.2.1851

Production Candidate; Fully validated

1851

July 08, 2009

Production Version 15.15.1.1840

Production Version; Fully validated

1840

July 08, 2009

Production Candidate 15.15.1.1840

Production Candidate; Fully validated

1840

June 09, 2009

Production Version 15.15.0.1808

Production Version; Fully validated

1808

June 05, 2009

Production Candidate 15.15.0.1808

Production Candidate; Fully validated

1808

May 20, 2009

Beta 15.15.0.1766

Beta; Not fully validated

1766

May 08, 2009

Beta 15.15.0.1732

Beta; Not fully validated

1732

April 10, 2009

Alpha 15.15.0.1700

Alpha; Not fully validated

1700

March 18, 2009

Alpha 15.15.0.1668

Alpha; Not fully validated

1668

February 25, 2009

Pre-Alpha 15.15.0.1658

Pre-Alpha; Not fully validated

1658

 

Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator Driver

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

·           Intel(R) B43 Express Chipset

·           Intel(R) G41 Express Chipset

·           Intel(R) G43 Express Chipset

·           Intel(R) G45 Express Chipset

·           Intel(R) Q43 Express Chipset

·           Intel(R) Q45 Express Chipset

·           Mobile Intel(R) GL40 Express Chipset

·           Mobile Intel(R) GM45 Express Chipset

·           Mobile Intel(R) GS45 Express Chipset

·           Mobile Intel(R) GS40 Express Chipset

New Features

Features Added in Baseline 15.15

Reference No.

Description

Affected Components

Build

N/A

Addition of HDMI Audio (2069)

HDMI Audio

1700

N/A

Microsoft Windows 7 Content Protection

DVD

1700

 

Known Issues

Known Issues in Build 1855

Reference No.

Description

Affected Component(s)

Affected OS(s)

Affected Project(s)

3002733

Flickering video playback is displayed while playing the Pathfinder Blu-ray DVD movie via 3rd party DVD player with modified BIOS.

KMD Render

Windows* 7 Windows* 7-64

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family
Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

3003397

OPM Monitor application has stopped working & error message is displayed.

DVD

Windows Vista* Windows Vista*-64 Windows* 7 Windows* 7-64

Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

3003463

The display mode cannot be switched properly after swapping the primary device and secondary device with CRT+EFP EXTD mode.

NT - miniport

Windows* 7

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family
 
Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

3003929

Anomaly in playback is displayed while playing the Meet the Robinsons Blu-ray DVD movie via 3rd party DVD application

DVD

Windows* 7

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

3038050

Blank screen is displayed while playing the Nature’s Journey Blu-ray DVD movie via WinDVD8 application.

DVD

Windows Vista* Windows* 7

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

3039571

Macrovision Test DVD can not be played with Video Standard 576i/p via 3rd Party DVD application.

NT - miniport

Windows* 7
Windows* XP

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

3175118

Operating system is not responding after HDMI is unplugged after resuming from S3/S4

 

Windows* 7

Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

 

Issues Resolved

Issues Resolved in Build 1855

Reference No.

Description

Affected Component(s)

Affected OS(s)

Affected Project(s)

N/A

 

 

 

 

 

Issues Resolved in Build 1851

Reference No.

Description

Affected Component(s)

Affected OS(s)

Affected Project(s)

Bug ID: 3004251

When you select Display Settings, Debug Assertion Failed.

CUI

Windows* 7-64

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

Root Cause:  

Issue not seen with latester build on 64 bit customer system with same monitor (Sony G420).

Bug ID: 3037969

Error when collecting monitor information (via MCCS over DP interface) directly through Microsoft Monitor Configuration API

Soft BIOS

Windows Vista*
Windows Vista*-64
Windows* 7
Windows* 7-64

Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

Root Cause:  

The address was not properly converted for MCCS based address scheme as per hte spec. the index was written again druing read after write whcih was causing the MCCS transactions to fail

Bug ID: 3038325

After Reboot, the desktop color can not keep sometimes.

CUI

Windows* 7-64

Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

Root Cause:  


After color correction were modified to differ from default values. The system was put through 5 restarts, and 10 Power off and Power on reboots, and every time the OS loaded, modified values were kept as modified and never revert back to default values.

Since driver gets many calls to apply the gamma value, CUI should be the last one applying the gamma value persisted. If OS sets default gamma after CUI then the value gets overridden. Increade the timeout value to call the callback function, which ensures that CUI applies the gamma value last. The gamma value being set is visible as first OS applies it's gamma and then we do at the end :( .

Bug ID: 3038491

Clone Mode Does Not Show External VGA After Hot Plug VGA

NT - miniport

Windows* 7-64
Windows* 7

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

Root Cause:  

 

Bug ID: 3038681

Can not launch Intel Graphics Media Accelerator Driver for mobile when rotate

CUI

Windows* 7

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

Root Cause:  

After the fix given for the pr/sec positions (bug 3038761) , the iscurrentconfig() function is returning false in getdevicemodes(). We always are going and asking the driver for modes even if the devices are active. The driver is sending a zero length mode tableL, which it shouldn’t be because it is our ultimate fallback mechanism.


Bug ID: 3038709

Refresh Rate 65Hz is available on 1600x1200, CRT only.

Soft BIOS

Windows* 7

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

Root Cause:  

 

Bug ID: 3038761

Setting of the 'Primary/Secondary' is different between OS UI and Intel CUI.

CUI

Windows* 7-64

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

Root Cause:  

When we do a GetCurSystemConfig(), we swap the paths in the VidPNData structure to be in sync with the Operating system.

Bug ID: 3038833

TDR happens when playbacking MPEG1/MPEG2 file while playbacking MPEG2 Blu-ray disc title

DVD

Windows* 7

Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

Root Cause:  

Disallow creating multiple PAVP sessions at once based on hardware support.

Bug ID: 3039151

Cannot change primary display to external display in extended mode

Soft BIOS

Windows* 7

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

Root Cause:  

 

Bug ID: 3039568

Color Test Pattern issue for LVDS occurs after starting OS.

N/A

Windows 7
Windows 7-64

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

Root Cause:  

For MAR there was code missing in RFVN to set scaling to identity if source and target modes are same and the scaling recommneded was MAR just because that is the current scaling.

Fix: Added MAR chk to covert scaling to identity.

Bug ID: 3039824

The icon of " Intel Graphic Media Accelerator Driver" in taskbar is change incorrectly after Pinning it to taskbar.

CUI

Windows* 7
Windows* 7-64

Intel® 3 Series Chipset Family
Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

Root Cause:  


Added an entry in the project file pointing the icon file location.Imported the icon from igfxress to ifgxcfg
Added an entry in the project file pointing the icon file location
Imported the icon from igfxress to ifgxcfg

Bug ID: 3039841

SDVO Power down does not work.

Soft BIOS

Windows Vista*
Windows* 7
Windows* XP

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

Root Cause:  

The SKU check has been modified to enable this feature for GS45 SKU.

Bug ID: 3040224

Primary screen garbage when overlay player moves from secondary to primary.

N/A

Windows* 7

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

Root Cause:  

Enable sprite B with Scaler whenever Sprite A is being enabled.

Issues Resolved in Build 1840

Reference No.

Description

Affected Component(s)

Affected OS(s)

Affected Project(s)

Bug ID: 3001368

HD audio takes more than 10 sec switch to internal from LCD+HDMI or HDMI only mode to LCD only mode.(via DP to HDMI dongle)

Soft BIOS

Windows Vista*-64
Windows 7-64

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family
Mobile Intel® 965 Express Chipset Family

Root Cause:

Audio driver was waiting for update of specific bit that was not updated.  Fixed in code.

Bug ID: 3037447

Display color changes when DPST is enabled to Max aggressiveness level

Power Conservation

Windows Vista*
Windows Vista*-64
Windows 7
Windows 7-64

 

Root Cause:

Changed the Histogram enable sequence to make sure the histogram is stabilized before any access to it

Bug ID: 3037725

DisplayPort Does Not Work

Soft BIOS

Windows Vista*
Windows 7
Windows* XP

Ironlake

Root Cause:

Issue:

Port D was not being enumerated because max encoder was defined to 3 and it was exceeding the total enumerated encoders.
Fix: increased value of max encoders.

Bug ID: 3037833

 Distortion occurs when playing VC-1 format BD intermittently.

DVD

Windows 7
Windows 7-64

Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

Root Cause:

Bug ID: 3037914

No display after S3/S4 with Extended Mode DP(Primary)

Soft BIOS

Windows 7

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

Root Cause:

Blank video status was not set correctly while resuming from S3/S4.

Bug ID: 3038498

The DirectX version in Graphics information does not match with it in DirectX Diagnostic Tool.

CUI

Windows 7
Windows 7-64

Intel® 965 Express Chipset Family
Mobile Intel® 965 Express Chipset Family
Intel® 945 Express Chipset Family
Intel® 3 Series Chipset Family
Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family
Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

Root Cause:

Code did not have the capability to detect DirectX version 11.0

Bug ID: 3038685

HDMI audio still selected after remove HDMI cable.

Soft BIOS

Windows 7

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

Root Cause:

Bug ID: 3038688

Secondary Monitor will be disarranged when Blu-ray disc is played at Primary Monitor.

KMD Render

Windows 7

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

Root Cause:

Color key was incorrectly applied in RGB surface cases

Bug ID: 3038715

Panel size value cannot be loaded in EDID table correctly.

Soft BIOS

Windows 7-64

Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

Root Cause:

Added code for implementing High DPI on SDVO LVDS

Bug ID: 3038816

HDMI monitor become black screen on Multi monitor [HDMI(Pri) + LCD(Sec)] after Video Standby - Resume.

Soft BIOS

Windows 7
Windows 7-64

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

Root Cause:

Blank video status was not set correctly while resuming from S3/S4.

Bug ID: 3038817

HDMI monitor is black screen when selecting the Multi monitor [HDMI(Pri) + LCD(Sec)] by CUI with Aero off.

Soft BIOS

Windows 7
Windows 7-64

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

Root Cause:

Blank video status was not set correctly while resuming from S3/S4.

Bug ID: 3039639

Gamma Value(Default/Min/Max) are not correct

CUI

Windows Vista*
Windows 7-64

Ironlake
Auburn

Root Cause:

Gamma values did not reflect new requirements.

Bug ID: 3039640

Although the gamma value is two decimals, the one decimal is invalid.

CUI

Windows Vista*
Windows 7-64

Ironlake
Auburn

Root Cause:

Bug ID: 3038756

Primary monitor will be black screen when HDMI monitor’s color depth is changed 16bpp.

Soft BIOS

Windows 7

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

Root Cause:

Blank video status was not set correctly while resuming from S3/S4.

Bug ID: 3038755

Refresh rate can not be changed at 720 x 480 or 1920 x 1080 resolution of HDMI monitor.

NT - miniport

Windows 7

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

Root Cause:

Bug ID: 3038644

System can't switch playback back to internal speaker automatically after switch display device from HDMI to LVDS only. (waiting around 19 sec, playback will switch back to internal speaker.)

Soft BIOS

Windows Vista*
Windows 7

Mobile Intel® 965 Express Chipset Family

Root Cause:

Audio driver was waiting for update of specific bit that was not updated.  Fixed in code.

Bug ID: 3038526

No HDMI audio output device in specific TV

Soft BIOS

Windows 7

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

Root Cause:

The display doesn’t have LPCM SAD in its EDID. Hence the GFX driver was not reporting the audio capability as part of, EELD, to the audio driver.   A fix was added.

Bug ID: 3038175

The Fake EDID does not include size information.

Soft BIOS

Windows 7

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

Root Cause:

Bug ID: 3037782

Unable to play BD movies with 1920x1200 resolution specific panels.

DVD

Windows 7
Windows 7-64

Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

Root Cause:

Bug ID: 3004288

Audio can not detect hot unplug during S3/S4 state.

Soft BIOS

Windows 7
Windows 7-64

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

Root Cause:

A bit needed for this to work was not in driver.  Now added.

Bug ID: 3004049

Panel physical dimension described in VBT is not incorporated in an EDID created by driver.

Soft BIOS

Windows 7

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

Root Cause:

Issues Resolved in Build 1808

Reference No.

Description

Affected Component(s)

Affected OS(s)

Affected Project(s)

Bug ID: 3002965

Can not switch to LCD+CRT/EDT by Fn-F5.

CUI COM

Windows* 7

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

Root Cause:

Correct values for the position of secondary device are populated using the primary horizontal res and secondary vertical res. code for additinal SDC is commented out redusing one flash while setting EDT.

Bug ID: 3003554, 3037783, 3037966, 3038007, 3038112

Opening "Intel Graphics Media Accelerator Driver" tab will cause error

CUI

Windows* 7-64

Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

Root Cause:

The GFX property page issue is fixed, Pointer type cast changed

Bug ID: 3003752

Does not set to 1920x1080@30Hz(1080i) by CUI when connect monitor via HDMI.

CUI

Windows* 7

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

Root Cause:

Added code to enable interlaced scanline ordering

Bug ID: 3038114, 3037803, 3037878, 3038324

Cannot change display output destination to DDC or Extended desktop by using Right-Click menu.

CUI

Windows* 7

Mobile Intel® 965 Express Chipset Family

Root Cause:

N/A

Bug ID: 3037364, 3037361

MCE crashes when trying to watch livetv / DVD

Cloaking

Windows* 7

Mobile Intel® 965 Express Chipset Family

Root Cause:?

Bug ID: 3037782

Unable to play BD movies with 1920x1200 resolution

DVD

Windows* 7

Mobile Intel® 965 Express Chipset Family

Root Cause:Application sends FastComp substream height is 1200, driver max height is 1080, change it to 1200.

Bug ID: 3037833

Distortion occurs when playing VC-1 format BD intermittently.

DVD

Windows* 7

Mobile Intel® 965 Express Chipset Family

Root Cause:If the linear address of the surface_state is not 32B aligned, there is an error in ILDB binding table offset alignment.

Issues Resolved in Build 1766

Reference No.

Description

Affected Component(s)

Affected OS(s)

Affected Project(s)

Bug ID: 3037345

Unable to run OpenGL Extensions Viewer 3.0 in 64-bit

GHAL3D

Windows* 7 64-Bit

Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

Root Cause:

Issue resolved with the latest driver 1766

Bug ID: 3004307

Error message appears upon rebooting after installing the driver

TV Wizard

Windows* 7

Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

Root Cause:

Made changes necessary for tvwizard to come up on win7.

Issues Resolved in Build 1732

Reference No.

Description

Affected Component(s)

Affected OS(s)

Affected Project(s)

Bug ID: 2913200

Fast Composite does not work.

DVD

Windows* 7

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

Root Cause:

Fix is on Fast DI part. The cause is the Win7 part of code to flush command has flag set to TRUE while it should set to FALSE. It will also go to the older path of FC Di that will not use batch buffer for media object. The reason is that state in FC is changed every frame and only one batch buffer is allocated under Win7/DXVAHD

Bug ID: 3003376

Windows Experience Index score is not available

N/A

Windows* 7

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

Root Cause:

See Root Cause for b2913200

Bug ID: 3003377

WMC can not play DVD.

DVD

Windows* 7

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

Root Cause:

PAVP 1.5 changes assumed all calls to Pavp_DecodeExtensionExecute would be made by an auxilary device, however GPU CP does not use an Auxilary Device.

GPU CP now calls the fixed key exchange routine directly.

Bug ID: 3003789, 3001697, b3003478

Rotation display not correct in duplicate mode.

CUI

Windows* 7
Windows* 7 64-Bit

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

Root Cause:

Added code to support secondary rotation for dual display clone.

Bug ID: 3003496

The aspect scaling is not changed after setting the CUI Aspect Ratio Options

Miniport

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

Root Cause:

Issues Resolved in Build 1700

Reference No.

Description

Affected Component(s)

Affected OS(s)

Affected Project(s)

Bug ID:  3002356

Incorrect video position when rotating screen orientation

N/A

Windows* 7

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

Root Cause:

Updated driver to reflect some changes in D3D9 overlay functions. We are now failing rotation modes because we do not currently support overlay in rotated modes.