NVIDA now has full hardware mixing support under Linux

chunderbunny · Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 6:25 pm Post subject:

Hopefully they make the new version work in 2.6.11 kernels as well. The current version refuses to load in all the 2.6.11 rc kernels I've tried.

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lucif3r · Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 3:14 pm Post subject:

I don't have the speakers to test 5.1 sound. I have tested it with cloned stereo and 4 speakers and that is working.
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soya · Guru Joined: 29 Jan 2004 Posts: 429

Following the original post, i think that the community, has a big power, every time people needs something like full support for anything you have bought we should be able to press for getting support for what we have bought without having to do it ourselve. If someone sells anything he/she/it has to give full support and our way to press is sending mails and moving all together, in group. As we make them rich buying them should do it in the correct way. An that's what we all should do in all aspects, cause all people togetehr has the power that a single one doesnt have, of course for doing things in the right way

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Matteo Azzali · Retired Dev Joined: 23 Sep 2004 Posts: 1133

Just a little question, don't get mad please I'm a noob.....
But gigabyte boards with nforce3/4 have the realtek chip aboard.
I know all the defects about Realtek (I have one on my kt400 board)
but is that chip provided of hardware mixing or does it suffer
the same problem of soundstorm?
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PrakashP · Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 3:42 pm Post subject:

It is a simple ac'97 codec and AFAIk has no dsp unit, so no hw mixing.

lucif3r · Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2005 5:05 pm Post subject:

I have to tell you guys I was as frustrated as anyone (check my posts at nforcer's HQ if you want to see just how frustrated) but I have been impressed with the dedication the driver team has put into fixing the bugs I have reported to them.

For those of you experiencing bugs with the 2.6 kernel (I still use the 2.4 kernel) I encourage you to work with the driver team and report these bugs. Offer to test out their drivers before release. They will send you the drivers as they are developed so they can get immediate feedback.

I don't recommend frustrating them with complaints about how they NEED to get this done. They are getting it done. I realize it has been a slow process and it isn't ALSA, but it is something. The sooner the OSS driver is stable the sooner they will work on an ALSA driver.

I have been told an ALSA driver is planned as soon as the OSS driver is done (which should be very soon).
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PrakashP · Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2005 5:19 pm Post subject:

Well, I have been talking to them, as well, and wanted them to fix the bug that one channel gets inverted. But the dev refused to accept that it is a driver bug. This is frustrating. I got no response after my last mail, so I don't know whether he fixed it or not...

cereal-chiller · Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2005 1:24 pm Post subject:

installed the beta drivers from lucifer against 2.6.10-r1. they seem to be working well but nvmixer still doesn't store its settings.. wich is really anoying
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-DomiNator- · n00b Joined: 31 Jan 2005 Posts: 2 Location: /dev/null

Im formatting and re-installing my gentoo box this afternoon... what will be my best choice at the moment...

Use alsa with non-hardware mixing drivers, of to use OSS with the beta drivers discussed in this forum?
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tscolari · Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 5:11 am Post subject:

this stuff worked here for me:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ALSA_sound_mixer_aka_dmix

it enables me to mix sounds. I think its not a hw mixer, but, its doing its job since nvidia doesnt
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golian · Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 7:06 pm Post subject: new nforce driver 1.0-0301

Changes:
Added support for 2.6.10 and 2.6.11 kernels.
Added support for restore of nvmixer settings over reboots.
Fixed nvsound compatibility issues with various applications.
Fixed WOL support in nvnet.
Fixed some nvnet performance issues.

chunderbunny · Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 7:41 pm Post subject:

Yep, I just installed the new driver (I just version bumped the original 292 version ebuild) and everything works fine. Flashplayer now works with sound and you no longer have to use mplayer with sdl output to get things to work (mplayer ao=oss works just fine.) Sound under Gaim still aren't perfect since the end of the sound is chopped off, but it plays at the right speed now.

Sarlock · n00b Joined: 12 Mar 2005 Posts: 3

Nevermind, found problem. Seems I didn't set the module in.

irondog · Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 10:45 am Post subject:

Driver 1.0-0301 works great for me. Can mix now and it's finally stable enough to really use it.
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agent_jdh · Veteran Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Posts: 1783 Location: Scotland

As it hasn't been mentioned explicitly, from the new 1.0-0301 driver release notes-

lightsout · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 10:23 am Post subject:

I've posted this on another thread regarding the new nforce audio drivers - has anyone tried them with Skype? For me, they just crash Skype within seconds once I start using audio. TeamSpeak, xmms, UT2004, etc all seem fine though so far.

Pretty nice drivers really!

PrakashP · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 10:41 am Post subject:

Report to Nvidia, otherwise they can't fix it.

lightsout · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 10:50 am Post subject:

Well I'd like to confirm it if possible first! I had a problem with TeamSpeak with the previous drivers which just locked my machine hard - they've fixed that at least.

syouth · Apprentice Joined: 18 Sep 2004 Posts: 275

How do you get mplayer working? Sound flows fine, but it cant play any video. If i scroll with "->", I see some still frames.
Have latest nvsound, just emerged.
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mascanho · Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 1:13 am Post subject:

Hurray new drivers that work even better

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edudlive · Guru Joined: 06 Jan 2004 Posts: 557

I emailed them.