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hi
new topic for new driver release.
please discuss driver issues here, that i can modify the wiki if it's necessary, and to get latest news on driver updates.
greetings
tpowa
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Probably the biggest reason to upgrade:
- Improved interaction with the udev filesystem.
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Probably the biggest reason to upgrade:
- Improved interaction with the udev filesystem.
hooray! hayroo!
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did we ever have problems with udev?
/me wonders
it was working all the time.
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Works perfectly! Much better than the previous release. Now it works with my gforce MX 440 card. With the improved udev support the module doesn't have to be loaded by hand.
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Holy smokes...
It's a good thing I don't use glxgears to associate performance with my OpenGL stuff. I don't use the Arch package, but my framerates in 'glxgears' just dropped 29%. I used to get ~4600 FPS (6629) and now I get ~3200 (7167). I might have to test this "theory" out on some Doom3 lovin'...
* That has nothing to do with this package, but I thought I'd share my experiences with this NVIDIA release nonetheless...
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Everything appears to be OK. It appears that permissions on /dev/nvidiactl were preventing me from running my OpenGL game project, but the NVIDIA readme FAQ said to chmod it, which solved that problem.
There was also a problem with the old JOGL libraries, but updating those to the newest ones solved any issues.
Thanks!
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My framerates dropped as well.
I'm running this with a 2.6.11.2-ac2 kernel, and I'm not sure that it's really working 100%.
Oh btw, I have a custom package, i'm using -pkg1 instead of -pkg0 as the testing package uses.
I'd be grateful if anyone could throw me some ideas about how to make it all work again. (I notice missing effects in things like tuxracer...etc)
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Nevermind about my prior post. I needed to apply the 1 patch supplied by NVIDIA. It corrects a few things for those of us that use the kernel AGPGART.
My framerates are exactly as they were with 6629.
Maybe another good reason for me to use the Arch package instead of making a foo' outta myself doing it on my own...
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could you point me at that patch?
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could you point me at that patch?
Sure thing my NVIDIA/Arch brother...
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=47405
* Just use the single patch. It corrects both issues given by the 2 separate ones.
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thank you, back to normal
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Hmm I'm wondering about something, perhaps one of you is more knowlegable about this.
If I were to use nvAGP, what would the big difference be between that and using the kernel's native AGP?
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Nothing as far as I can tell. I've tried both and neither experience a performance or stability gain. The only reason to possibly use it is if you're having problems with AGPGART. I'ver read several threads in the nvnews forums where people with certain chipsets seemed to need it.
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It's a good thing I don't use glxgears to associate performance with my OpenGL stuff. I don't use the Arch package, but my framerates in 'glxgears' just dropped 29%. I used to get ~4600 FPS (6629) and now I get ~3200 (7167). I might have to test this "theory" out on some Doom3 lovin'...
My glxgears framerate dropped, too; DooM3 is pretty much the same (a bit higher, even). I run a GFFX 5800.
93,
-Sascha.rb
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added patch to new -2 package enjoy
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nggalai, when I applied the patch, my 'glxgears' actually remained the same. I was in error before, since I originally didn't use the patch. If you use tpowa's mighty fine Arch package, you don't have to worry about this.
I tried out several OpenGL games, and it actually runs a lot smoother it seems. By the way, I'm still using kernel 2.6.10.
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skoal,
na, I actually use the NV binaries, not the packages. Hence the observation. I'll try out the patched version, too--who knows? Perhaps DooM3 will run even faster.
93,
-Sascha.rb
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buuu the new driver still hasnt support for my gforce 2mx . My pc die when i launch X Y_Y
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I had some serious udev problems last week because of upgrading nvidia, it messed up permissions horribly. I had to go back to an older version of udev, ill have to give this a try and see if it fixes it.
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Widescreen is still broken :?
Oh well, looks like I'll be using 6111-jp3 and 2.6.10 for quite some time.
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I also had the /dev/nvidiactl permissions error message. Did the chmod/chown thing, but I'm also running PAM so I get the error back after rebooting.
I checked for the two permissions files they mentioned, but I don't seem to have them, although I do have an /etc/security/ directory, but none of the files in there have a <dri> section.
Anyone know what I need to change to fix this without disabling PAM?
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I also had the /dev/nvidiactl permissions error message. Did the chmod/chown thing, but I'm also running PAM so I get the error back after rebooting.
I checked for the two permissions files they mentioned, but I don't seem to have them, although I do have an /etc/security/ directory, but none of the files in there have a <dri> section.
Anyone know what I need to change to fix this without disabling PAM?
If im not totaly wrong, consider that I had a few beers , cant you just add your self to the video group?? I think that is what I did. Check your groups belonging with:
groups
If you not have video, edit your /etc/group file
cheeeeeeeeeeers all!!!!
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I'm getting pretty much the exact same fps in glxgears over here running a FX 5700LE. Doom 3 seems to have picked up ~3-5 fps on average but Neverwinter Nights is the same. I'll try UT2004 later and see what, if anything has changed. Overall a pretty good driver release, I'd say. Is anyone using the NvAGP instead of kernel agpgart? If so, how does it compare?
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I have some problem with this driver.
On my TVOUT screen is monochrome. With previous nvidia driver everything was OK.
Card GFMX440
No more tears... Arch Linux ;-)
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