New Nvidia drivers. (4191)

Ansorg · Apprentice Joined: 13 Jul 2002 Posts: 193

I put the ebuilds in the PORTDIR_OVERLAY

but that dit not yet work:

Ansorg · Apprentice Joined: 13 Jul 2002 Posts: 193

stupid me ...

providing the emerge command with the complete file/path name worked of course

stupid me ...

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Malakin · Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2002 10:01 pm Post subject:

I emerged the new drivers, didn't noticed any difference in 2d, everything is still fast. 3d might be slightly faster but I didn't do a before and after comparison so it's hard to say.

Ansorg · Apprentice Joined: 13 Jul 2002 Posts: 193

so, got it running --- and went back immediately

as otheres reported: the 2D performance was horrible: moving a window on screen and having the screen redraw 10sec later is no fun

that's with a GF4 TI 4200 128MB on gentoo 1.4, XFree 4.2.1, gcc 3.2.1
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simcop2387 · Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2002 10:17 pm Post subject:

i can't get them to work at all, X just hangs, i'll post up my log when i'm back home, i'll try remerging them in a minute but from what i'm seeing here i may not want to. this is an amazing upset, i hope they get it all worked out soon.

Matje · Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2002 10:22 pm Post subject:

OMFG

I went from +/- 800 (I think) to 1700 FPS in glxgears

And no problems with transparent terminal...
Gonna try ut2003 now

KiTaSuMbA · Guru Joined: 28 Jun 2002 Posts: 430 Location: Naples Italy

So for some works, for some 2D gets stuffed and for some it won't go...
I suspect the variance in performance (both up in 3D and down in 2D) is dependent on your HW... Would you mind including your actual nvidia GPU when reporting this kind of stuff?
Also... glxgears may vary due to fullscreen/non and color depth... Keeping these fixed, it gives a good idea of 3D performance.
But what about 2D? Is there a way to benchmark?
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Matje · Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2002 11:47 pm Post subject:

Okay, I just tried UT2003 and my framerate is much stabler as before. It used to vary from 20 to 50 fps, depending on how much work there was to be done, now I just play constantly at a +/- 40-50 fps, no need to say gameplay is much better ;-)

I have a Hercules Geforce II MX, never thought it would go along this long :-)

I'm still going to buy a Ti4200 though ;-)

glxgears was in normal mode...

ejwahl · Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2002 11:58 pm Post subject:

I have an ABIT KG7 with a GF4 Ti 4400. Glxgears went from 3,800 to 4,500. 2D performance is pretty lousy though. Dragging around a window gives me a headache...

One other thing. Had to put "nvidia" in /etc/modules.autoload to get the nvidia module to load, even though I'm running devfs. Anyone know how to load the module automatically like previous Nvidia drivers were?
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maw · Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2002 2:38 am Post subject:

They hang my X with a black screen on startup, no keyboard response at all, had to hit the reset button and go back to the previous version. Interestingly enough, the new Windows ones cause XP to bluescreen on bootup for me as well...

I have a Creative Labs GeForce3 Ti200, gentoo-sources 2.4.19-r9, athlon XP 2100+ with most of the system optimised for -march=athlon-xp. I'm suspecting there may be 'issues' with my card given that the Windows 40.x series don't work either, and these are the Linux equivalents of that. (the windows ones claim 25% driver performance gain by the way).
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Pigeon · Guru Joined: 21 Jun 2002 Posts: 307

dcstimm · Guru Joined: 19 Jun 2002 Posts: 321

I found the fix to make these new drivers fast!!

Option "RenderAccel" "1"

Just add that line to ur XF86Config

like this:

Section "Device"
Identifier "geforce2"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "NvAGP" "1"
Option "DigitalVibrance" "2"
Option "RenderAccel" "1"

But these new drivers are broken with gnome 2.1.2, some weird transparency issue

suka · Developer Joined: 22 Apr 2002 Posts: 383

echeslack · Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2002 7:29 am Post subject:

the RenderAccel apparantly doesn't work for everybody. I read on the nvidia forums that somebody was still getting slow performance after turning that on, and they said that they had strange behavior where the 2D would start working fast again after they ran a 3d app. But i don't know if that will work in general or not. This all seems very screwy. Seems like the drivers need more testing.

yokem55 · Guru Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 360 Location: Oregon

The RenderAccel is working well for me, nice and fast on my GF3 Ti200. The mouse is also much smoother, and after perusing the XF86 log file, it mentions something called "silken mouse." Silken it most certainly is in comparison to before. However, the digital vibrance doesn't seem to be working and my colors are all very dull, even with it set to 3. xv video playback in mplayer is nice and smooth, and the infinity sdl xmms plugin is working nice and fast. I'll be installing UT2k3 to test the opengl to see how well that is working here......

Mooses · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 16 Jul 2002 Posts: 128

No Prob for me, 2D doesn't at all seem slower, glxgears even gives a bunch of more frames, about stability, well, we'll see, so far no probs.

Hardware: GeForce2Go on a P3-M-850

alshain · Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2002 8:50 am Post subject:

Tried that renderaccel option and it made no difference. 2D is still dead slow on my Geforce4 Ti4200. I had a look in the Xfree log file and it says:

(**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling experimental RENDER acceleration

and later:

(II) NVIDIA(0): Using the NVIDIA 2D acceleration architecture
(==) NVIDIA(0): Backing store disabled
(==) NVIDIA(0): Silken mouse enabled

I don't consider this much in the way of acceleration - it feels the same speed as unaccelerated SVGA.

lowbatt · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 13 Jul 2002 Posts: 83

I have to agree with the above post of my 2D stinks.

Athlon T-Bird 1.4
512 MB of Ram
Geforce Ti200 128MB of ram and my 2D was slowing when moving windows around. I didnt even bother trying 3D as I could not stand the 2D. I am using the older Version for now.
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alshain · Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2002 8:59 am Post subject:

Eh?!? 2D had just suddenly come up to speed! It was after I ran a 3D program, as someone mentioned earlier. Hey, this feels good - I think I'll test it for a bit and see if there are any crashes.

To prove you can't have everything, glxgears is now back to under 6000 - seems you can only have one or't other.

Still seeing artifacts and striping in gnome windows...

Andrew

alshain · Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2002 9:05 am Post subject:

Okay, this confirms it. I played a mplayer video, and on coming out everything was dog slow again. I ran glxgears and 2D speeded up again. Maybe it's time I had a whinge to Nvidia instead of clogging up this group!

Andrew

tomte · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 122

eivinn · Apprentice Joined: 10 Jul 2002 Posts: 219 Location: Norway

yokem55 · Guru Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 360 Location: Oregon

Actually, reading nVidia's updated docs, I found out the DigitalVibrance is now on a 0-255 scale. Now I have it cranked all they way up and my colors are nice and bright again....

eivinn · Apprentice Joined: 10 Jul 2002 Posts: 219 Location: Norway

darktux · Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2002 11:50 am Post subject: