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aardvark
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Hmm, these drivers work with my old tntII! They even give the impression of faster 2d. The glxgears score is however borked as the score has reduced a factor 30 , whereas a game like tuxracer works just fine.
I also noticed that is not possible for me to start a second x-session with the command
which kinda sucks....
revering to the previous version.... |
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anarchist
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Do you all use the standard ebuild? .. because i cant seem to get them working with the standard ebuild, just blank screen and when i switch to console 1 x crashes. This seems to happen when he wants to load the glx file ... any ideas?
According to the fan stopping, that would be great because it would mean that the 2d and 3d modes would work under linux, im getting problems with my hearing because of the fan on my recently bought 5700 ultra, which is a nice card indeed 
The tls fix did it for me ... so im up running the 5328 drivers, but at any rate i didnt experience the usual setback to 2d mode which the card does under windows :-/
at any rate i get around 5000 frames in glxgears with my athlon xp at 1800mhz ... |
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dedeaux
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Joined: 19 Jun 2002
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Location: Nairobi, Kenya
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Well, I thought I would add my status with these drivers to the thread.
After they showed up in portage I emerged them. As usual, I waited to see what broke or remained broke.
I must say this. I like them. For starters, switching to vt(ctrl-shft-f1) works properly on my laptop now with a GeForce4 440 Go. When rebooting or shutting down the text console now displays. So, something has been done to make that work.
I also am sensing better performance in X.
One other noticable change for my machine is more smooth and clear fonts. |
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cylgalad
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Location: France
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It works with my FX5600, maybe it's a TNT issue |
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gurke
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| working with a geforce fx 5650 go and kernel 2.4.23 vanilla+bluetooth patches. the only thing is that my screen flashes for half a second sometimes (about every 30 minutes). |
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nbensa
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Joined: 10 Jul 2002
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Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
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dalu
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kernel 2.6.0
gffx 5900
nvagp
no problems
about 7% less fps in glxgears but it doesn't matter much |
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Jon Beilin
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 18 Dec 2003
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Location: Hanover, NH
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| gurke wrote: | | working with a geforce fx 5650 go and kernel 2.4.23 vanilla+bluetooth patches. the only thing is that my screen flashes for half a second sometimes (about every 30 minutes). |
i'm using the same card and i have the same problem. really wish i could fix it as it is fairly annoying (perhaps every 10 or 15 mins here) |
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gnarlin
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Joined: 06 Mar 2003
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Location: Reykjavík, Iceland
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| Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2004 6:31 am Post subject: nvidia 5328 completly borked |
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2d works and I can start x. 3d "works".. but I get around 5ish fps !!!! YES ... FIVE frames per second ! And if I try to emerge older drivers I get en error message saying that there is a driver version conflict, that kernel driver is 4496 but glx is 5328. Yes, I have installed but the glx and kernel modules of the same version. So I am stuck with the trashy 5328.
Just as a side question. Does anyone know of any gfxcard that has good 3d performance and has COMPLETELY open source drivers ?
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one moment while I finish recompiling my brain... |
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neenee
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| Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2004 9:30 am Post subject: |
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| after using the fix from bugzilla, they work fine for me. |
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gnarlin
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Joined: 06 Mar 2003
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Location: Reykjavík, Iceland
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| Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2004 12:07 pm Post subject: fix #15 |
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no, that "fix" does NOT work for me.. sorry
Tried it, but glxgears didn't even start then. I have reverted back to the previous drivers, which work fine. I blame nvidia for not open-sourcing their driver, or at least the portions of it that are not licensed from others.
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Freak_NL
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Location: The Netherlands
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I'm completely lost on this one.. Some people report performance doubling or even greater, some people see perfomance drop to the level of a S3 Virge..
I have a GeForce ti4200 based card, a Leadtek A280. Good card. These drivers decimate my glxgears score. 
With 4496 I have Warcraft III running flawless on wine. With 5328 I can't even reach the "quit" button because of the low performance. Odd..
Well, back to 4496 then. My only objection is the constant Nvidia driver related kernel oopses (not fatal and usually unnoticed though) and sometimes (luckily, not often) a complete system crash..
Nvidia seems to be the achilles-heel of my system, but such is the price of gaming I suppose.  |
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