New Nvidia Drivers 1.0-4363 released.

r0nster · n00b Joined: 31 May 2002 Posts: 13 Location: Searcy, AR

Supposedly fixes bugs left over from the previous 4.0-x versions. Hopefully an ebuild will pop up soon

idl · Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2003 9:36 pm Post subject:

cool, very speedy work by nvidia

Perhaps it will fix my problems with phoenix.
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r0nster · n00b Joined: 31 May 2002 Posts: 13 Location: Searcy, AR

So far, the 1.0-4349 (or whatever they were) seemed to work for me rather well. Others seem to have astonishingly long startup times, display corruption, etc. So I guess I've been lucky because I have experienced nothing of the sort yet, knock on wood!

If anything, DVD playback has improved a small bit compared to the previous driver I was running (the 3.x series). FYI, I'm also running XFree 4.3.0 -r2.

stevos22 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 22 Feb 2003 Posts: 102

Great stuff, Linux geeks welcome monthly driver updates from NVIDIA ;_0

yem · n00b Joined: 05 Nov 2002 Posts: 63 Location: Aotearoa

It'd be nice if the nvidia-kernel module used the current kernel (as determined by uname -r) instead of whatever old bunger is lurking in /usr/src/linux. I'm thinking of filing this as a bug.

RockHound · Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2003 11:35 am Post subject:

@yem: I think that you are right on track. Go ahead and file a bug report to nVidia ... i won't hurt. And you are always sure to get your current kernel compiled in.

Thanx for your headsup.

Greetz,

Martin

delta407 · Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2003 5:51 pm Post subject:

maw · Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2003 7:14 pm Post subject:

I'd suggest changing the distro then... that would be especially useful for people who run 2.5.x and 2.4.x...
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yem · n00b Joined: 05 Nov 2002 Posts: 63 Location: Aotearoa

mb4guns · Guru Joined: 04 Dec 2002 Posts: 300 Location: Netherlands

nvidia owns

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minam · n00b Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 2 Location: Provo, UT

Okay--I'm a major newbie to Gentoo (though not to linux). I've searched and searched and can't find info on this question: how can I emerge the latest NVidia drivers (4363)? Posts I've read seem to imply that there is an ebuild for it floating around somewhere, but I can't find it, and the "online package database" only lists the 4349 driver.

I can't get X to start at all with the 4349... it freezes on start up. I've followed the advice of others with similar problems (posted to these forums), to no avail, and the only thing I haven't tried yet is using the latest driver. Help me, please!

Thanks,

Jamis

floam · Posted: Sun May 04, 2003 2:53 am Post subject:

minam..... its in portage, so just emerge nvidia-kernel after an emerge sync to get the latest stuff from portage (assming you're letting portage give you testing/unstable packages of course.)

minam · n00b Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 2 Location: Provo, UT

floam--thanks for the pointer. I didn't realize the 4363 drivers were considered testing/unstable. I'll do some reading in that direction and set up portage to look there.

Safrax · Guru Joined: 23 Apr 2002 Posts: 422

Nvidia mucks up yet another driver release. 2D is still as slow as the 41's and the other 43's. I've had enough random lockups due to these drivers to really make me mad. I wish I could use the 31xx series with a 2.5.68-mm* kernel. I would be a really happy person.

puddpunk · l33t Joined: 20 Jul 2002 Posts: 681 Location: New Zealand

NVIDIA didn't muck it up. They work fine here. Maybe you mucked up?

I don't mean to be dense, but just because something doesn't work for you, it doesn't mean that the cause is a big failure.

Safrax · Guru Joined: 23 Apr 2002 Posts: 422

If anything its Nvidia and the decision to drop XAA and implement their own. It doesn't work half as good as the 31's with the XAA drivers. Whenever there is something updating 2D wise, like a konsole scroll, the text tears like mad. With the 31's I never had this problem, everything was as smooth as silk. And as far as user error. Doubt it. I've encountered this problem on 3 machines at work as well as all my home systems. It's a nvidia driver problem.

Cossins · Posted: Sun May 04, 2003 12:31 pm Post subject:

Well, it certainly doesn't occur to everyone - I've never had problems with the nvidia drivers all the way from tnt2 through geforce4.

If so many people have problems, why doesn't anyone sit down and look at the source code (it is open-source) to fix whatever problems you may have?

- Simon

aerogems · n00b Joined: 19 Feb 2003 Posts: 30

fragbert · Posted: Sun May 04, 2003 7:14 pm Post subject:

drexelslacker · n00b Joined: 01 May 2003 Posts: 7

The only problems I've experienced with nVidia drivers is when trying to use AGP. I have a GeForce3 and run the current gentoo stable set. If I turn on AGP, I'll get random lockups within 10 minutes of starting X. When I turn it off, it's rock solid stable. To all the people having big problems, have you tried not using AGP? For curiosity's sake, it would be interesting to see if that's what the general problem is.

DrexelSlacker

puddpunk · l33t Joined: 20 Jul 2002 Posts: 681 Location: New Zealand

Well, sorry to be a wet blanket on this nvidia flaming, but the 4xxx drivers work great for me. The 2D is fast and accurate, and the 3D is great. I think it was a good idea for NVIDIA to drop the XAA, as (IIRC) they found themselves very constrained by it, so they are writing their own. And of course, there are always the people who think that new code will work flawlessly on everybodies computer.

File a bug (on the nvidia forums, or whatever), be patient and stick with the 3xxx if it suits. It could be heaps worse, you could be trying to deal with ATI's drivers (trust me, you don't know how lucky you are with NVIDIA until you try and deal with ATI's drivers).

Oh, and by the way, I'm running a GeForce 2 MX on a Duron 1000 with kernel 2.5.68-mm1 and I experiance no problems.

EDIT: Typo

BMan · n00b Joined: 03 Apr 2003 Posts: 28 Location: London, UK

Fragbert, I had the random x lockups with the 4xxx drivers and found the problem was with the "render accel" option.
Putting: Option "RenderAccel" "False" in XF86config fixed the problem for me and now it's totally stable.

Hope that helps!

wrex · n00b Joined: 01 May 2003 Posts: 26 Location: San Jose, CA

wrex · n00b Joined: 01 May 2003 Posts: 26 Location: San Jose, CA

Just got back from Mom's day dinner and X was locked up (once again with pyro on the screen).

I've just re-emerged/compiled gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r5, nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx. I'm specifying noapic in grub, turned off AGP and RenderAccel in XF86Config. I'm running out of things to try.

If it was just locking up while the screensaver was running I could live with it, but periodically I get a lockup while actively using the system -- that's far more than annoying.

Sigh.