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Estimated Fix Time for Nvidia 173xx Drivers?

Currently, my proprietary nVidia drivers are incompatible with the latest Xorg release (http://www.archlinux.org/news/502/). I was wondering if there was anyone had any idea on when/if this is going to be changed? I'm using the nVidia 8800gt card, and without my proper driver I can't play 1080p properly, which is very frustrating.

karol

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Re: Estimated Fix Time for Nvidia 173xx Drivers?

Maybe you can hold on to the old xorg?

schuay

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Re: Estimated Fix Time for Nvidia 173xx Drivers?

Why are you using the 173xx drivers with 8800GT? I'm not certain on this, but the regular nvidia drivers should work for that card since it's still pretty recent (3 years?). You could also try nouveau.

karol

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Re: Estimated Fix Time for Nvidia 173xx Drivers?

I've also checked the nvidia website and they didn't recommend 173xx for this card (or maybe I picked the wrong category?) , but hey, I'm not gonna argue, OP should know better.

wonder

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Re: Estimated Fix Time for Nvidia 173xx Drivers?

Currently, my proprietary nVidia drivers are incompatible with the latest Xorg release (http://www.archlinux.org/news/502/). I was wondering if there was anyone had any idea on when/if this is going to be changed? I'm using the nVidia 8800gt card, and without my proper driver I can't play 1080p properly, which is very frustrating.

you are supposed to use nvidia driver and not legacy for your current card and for your information you can't play proper 1080 videos with legacy. they don't support vdpau

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LuckyLuke

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Registered: 2008-08-21

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Re: Estimated Fix Time for Nvidia 173xx Drivers?

BTW there are prereleases for legacy drivers.

96.43.18 (legacy prerelease)
173.14.75 (legacy prerelease)

Hm... Thinking about giving it a try by modifying the pkgbuilds is still got in my ABS.

karol

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Re: Estimated Fix Time for Nvidia 173xx Drivers?

[OT]
Now I've seen everything:

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diegonc

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Registered: 2008-12-13

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Re: Estimated Fix Time for Nvidia 173xx Drivers?

96.43.18 (legacy prerelease) for Linux x86/x86_64 released
Release highlights:

    * Fixed a bug that caused X server crashes when certain rendering occurred. This was triggered by the Ubuntu 10.04 GDM login theme. Fixes Launchpad bug #553200.
    * Fixed a bug that could cause X.Org xserver >= 1.7 to hang when restarted.

They didn't add support for Xorg 1.8 in the 96xxxx series

doorknob60

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Re: Estimated Fix Time for Nvidia 173xx Drivers?

[OT]
Now I've seen everything:

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Wow
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8800GT Definately works with the latest and greatest Nvidia driver. Heck, even a laptop I have with integrated 6100 works with the latest version. There are AUR packages for the nvidia-173xx drivers, I think it basically just downgrades you to Xorg 1.7, but it works on my brother's computer with a 5200.

jmad980

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Registered: 2010-03-11

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Re: Estimated Fix Time for Nvidia 173xx Drivers?

You'd have to ask nvidia, we have no clue really
but seriously its out of our control.
My two cents is that you can't keep pushing out drivers for old products even if you want to, if the majority of people are using newer products and only a very small amount of people are using the older ones you have to stop sooner or later and get on with new development, that said more modivation to get the Opensource ones working better

edit: That said I have a Nvidia 8200, and I'm doing great with 'nvidia'

Last edited by jmad980 (2010-07-18 06:29:41)

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doorknob60

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Re: Estimated Fix Time for Nvidia 173xx Drivers?

By the way, here's the correct link for 173 prerelease driver: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthr … ?p=2288105 It says that it does support Xorg 1.8 (the 96 driver doesn't say that).

12eason

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Re: Estimated Fix Time for Nvidia 173xx Drivers?

By the way, here's the correct link for 173 prerelease driver: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthr … ?p=2288105 It says that it does support Xorg 1.8 (the 96 driver doesn't say that).

Anyone got 173xx working yet? It complains about kernel modules for me. I see there's is the new version of 96xx on AUR (which claims to be xorg18 for some reason) but not a new one for 173.

dobbs

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Re: Estimated Fix Time for Nvidia 173xx Drivers?

Anyone got 173xx working yet?

I am still waiting too. Sometimes, I almost forget what I'm waiting for...:D

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spookyh

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Re: Estimated Fix Time for Nvidia 173xx Drivers?

I'm using a GeForce4 Ti 4200, driver 96.43.18, xorg-server 1.8.1.902-1 and kernel 2.6.34.1-1.
It works great here with Quake 3 arena
No crash in 4 days.

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karol

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Re: Estimated Fix Time for Nvidia 173xx Drivers?

@ spookyh
I see you've broken your vow of silence ;-)

Korrode

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Re: Estimated Fix Time for Nvidia 173xx Drivers?

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39101

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39191

Last edited by Korrode (2010-07-25 15:28:08)

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karol

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Re: Estimated Fix Time for Nvidia 173xx Drivers?

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39101

Be sure to see my first comment for kernel module info.

Just out of curiosity: what card did you test it on and what was the outcome?

Edit: You can read minds, can't you? I've got fx 5500 and I'll try to try it over the weekend.

Last edited by karol (2010-07-23 06:16:31)

losl

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Registered: 2009-10-25

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Re: Estimated Fix Time for Nvidia 173xx Drivers?

I don't know why you want 173xx but I have 256.53 working with my 8800GT without issues. In fact, nvidia-xconfig produced a config file that worked without tweaks.

Korrode

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Re: Estimated Fix Time for Nvidia 173xx Drivers?

Because drivers released after the 173xx series do not work with GeForce FX 5xxxx series cards.

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karol

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Re: Estimated Fix Time for Nvidia 173xx Drivers?

I don't know why you want 173xx but I have 256.53 working with my 8800GT without issues. In fact, nvidia-xconfig produced a config file that worked without tweaks.

You have a relatively new card, I have a rather old (and crappy) one. I have to use old drivers - the 173xx kind.