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brain0

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From: Aachen - Germany

Registered: 2005-01-03

Posts: 1,382

New NVIDIA in testing!

After the rather crappy 9629 release, nvidia has released 9631 which supposedly fixes the Geforce 3/4 segfault bug. Please try it and report and problems here. I hope this release can make it to extra, after 9629 never did.

Packages have been uploaded to testing a few minutes ago and are (of course) compiled for the latest Archlinux kernels (2.6.19-ARCH, 2.6.19-beyond, 2.6.19-suspend2, 2.6.19-rc6-mm2, 2.6.18-ck).

scarney

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From: Wisconsin, US

Registered: 2006-07-11

Posts: 173

Re: New NVIDIA in testing!

nice.

gorus

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From: Canada

Registered: 2005-11-08

Posts: 27

Re: New NVIDIA in testing!

uname -a
Linux gorus 2.6.19-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Dec 3 11:58:46 CET 2006 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

lspci | grep -i nvidia
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV43 [GeForce 6600/GeForce 6600 GT] (rev a2)

pacman -Q | grep nvidia
nvidia 1.0.9631-1
nvidia-utils 1.0.9631-1

pacman -Q | grep kernel
kernel26 2.6.19-2

glxgears
18366 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3673.051 FPS

glxgears -fullscreen
2727 frames in 5.0 seconds = 545.339 FPS

Nvidia utils work like a charm as well ..
Awesome job on this one here guys everything seems to be OK!!

Romashka

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Registered: 2005-12-07

Posts: 1,054

Re: New NVIDIA in testing!

BTW, Gentoo already has 1.0.9742.
I suppose there should be updated nvidia-beta package.

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brain0

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From: Aachen - Germany

Registered: 2005-01-03

Posts: 1,382

Re: New NVIDIA in testing!

BTW, Gentoo already has 1.0.9742.
I suppose there should be updated nvidia-beta package.

No, I will drop nvidia-beta as soon as 9631 is in extra. It is not worth maintaining anymore. It was worth maintaining when there were interesting new features that many users would want, now there aren't

jinn

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From: Gothenburg

Registered: 2005-12-10

Posts: 506

Re: New NVIDIA in testing!

I agree with brain0, the beta drivers only news is that it adds support for GeForce 8800 GTX and GeForce 8800 GTS GPUs..

http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_downl … -9742.html

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stmok

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From: Sydney, Australia

Registered: 2006-11-19

Posts: 72

Re: New NVIDIA in testing!

I can confirm that nvidia 1.0.9631-1 works on GF5900XT, GF7300GT and GF7600GS without issue in TORCS (OpenGL car racing sim).

Haven't tested TV-Out yet, will do that later...

Everything else (Nvidia app to configure various settings) seems to work fine.

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Pierre

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From: Bonn

Registered: 2004-07-05

Posts: 1,964

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Re: New NVIDIA in testing!

This dirver works fine with a Geforce 7800GT and Arch64.

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rpgcyco

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From: Australia

Registered: 2005-09-27

Posts: 74

Re: New NVIDIA in testing!

Working fine for me as well. 6600 GT.

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noriko

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From: In My Mind

Registered: 2006-06-09

Posts: 535

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Re: New NVIDIA in testing!

XFX 5200 works perfectly also x)

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baze

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Registered: 2005-10-30

Posts: 393

Re: New NVIDIA in testing!

my 6800gt works fine too, just like with previous versions.
is the 6800gt + 64bit cpu slowdown bug fixed that el_presidente was talking about all the time?

rev

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From: Russia

Registered: 2006-12-01

Posts: 10

Re: New NVIDIA in testing!

Unfortunately, NV2x related bugs have not been fixed. See http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=77816
GeForce3 Ti 200 here with all it's weird colors. 

brain0

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From: Aachen - Germany

Registered: 2005-01-03

Posts: 1,382

Re: New NVIDIA in testing!

I have not heard of this bug before. (It wasn't reported to me with the 962X drivers). Can you confirm that at least the GLX segfault bug is fixed? Can you give me more details about your configuration, including Xorg.0.log and xorg.conf?
I am tempted to move nvidia to extra anyway, as this bug concerns considerably less people than the numerous bugs that 9629 had. According to the thread, the bug is "isolated to DFPs (not CRTs), and is specific to the NV20 GPU based cards.". How many users do we have with such a setup?
The thread also mentions a bug report, is there a public bugtracker for nvidia?

iBertus

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From: Greenville, NC

Registered: 2004-11-04

Posts: 2,228

Re: New NVIDIA in testing!

Working here with GeForce 7600GS AGP. I did notice that when I installed from testing nvidia-utils was not upgraded to the new version and I had to do that by pacman -S testing/nvidia-utils. Anyone else have this problem?

baze

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Registered: 2005-10-30

Posts: 393

Re: New NVIDIA in testing!

Working here with GeForce 7600GS AGP. I did notice that when I installed from testing nvidia-utils was not upgraded to the new version and I had to do that by pacman -S testing/nvidia-utils. Anyone else have this problem?

not exactly, since i already had nvidia-utils from testing, but i had to reinstall it anyway wit pacman -S nvidia-utils. well, i removed nvidia-utils and nvidia and then reinstalled them with pacman -S nvidia, so i hope the next time this won't happen....

rev

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From: Russia

Registered: 2006-12-01

Posts: 10

Re: New NVIDIA in testing!

I have not heard of this bug before. (It wasn't reported to me with the 962X drivers). Can you confirm that at least the GLX segfault bug is fixed? Can you give me more details about your configuration, including Xorg.0.log and xorg.conf?
I am tempted to move nvidia to extra anyway, as this bug concerns considerably less people than the numerous bugs that 9629 had. According to the thread, the bug is "isolated to DFPs (not CRTs), and is specific to the NV20 GPU based cards.". How many users do we have with such a setup?
The thread also mentions a bug report, is there a public bugtracker for nvidia?

  The thing is I haven't had any problems with GLX crashing. I have only experienced the "mangled colors" issue. 9631 still has this bug. (Well, you have seen the release notes, they didn't promise to fix colors after all.)
  IMO, you won't hurt anybody putting this version to extra. 9631 is a better driver than 9629, which seemed to be a bitch for just about everyone. People with NV2xs connected to DFPs have two obvious choices to get rid of the problem:
1) use D-sub (it works, I'm using it right now and the colors are ok) or
2) stay with 8xxx series driver (which is what I'm probably going to do).
And it's not entirely impossible that I may count for 50 or even 100% of such archers.
  I will send all the necessary logs to you by PM to save valuable display space here (it's a pity that this forum doesn't permit to attach files to posts. Or is it just me being stupid^Walternatively gifted?)
  As for nvidia's bug tracker, no, they don't have it open to public. See http://www.phoronix.com/redblog/?p=blog&i=MjgwMA, for example.
  Finally, I'm delighted to have a chance to thank you and all the other devs/TUs working on Arch Linux Being yet another new Gentoo refugee in search for a perfect desktop OS I'm very happy having found Arch Linux.   

brain0

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From: Aachen - Germany

Registered: 2005-01-03

Posts: 1,382

Re: New NVIDIA in testing!

Thanks for your understanding. I hope nvidia fixes this one too.

New nvidia drivers are now in extra. And as stated above, nvidia-beta has been dropped from unstable. If you want to use the 9742 beta drivers, you have to modify the nvidia PKGBUILDs yourself.

gentoofu

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Registered: 2006-10-05

Posts: 34

Re: New NVIDIA in testing!

I am also on Geforce3 Ti 200 using DVI connection with nvidia 1.0-8776. Spent a whole day yesterday trying to figure out the problem with 1.0-9631, gave up, and just now found out that it's definitely a bug. I probably won't be able to tell the difference between 8776 and 9631 but I'm gonna hafta stick around with kernel-2.6.18. I hope kernel-2.6.20 won't be a big deal to switch to if it's not fixed by then...

Pierre

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From: Bonn

Registered: 2004-07-05

Posts: 1,964

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Re: New NVIDIA in testing!

Hi there. Yes I said that everything is OK here with nvidia-9631. But I just found out, that this driver results in broken textures and bad image-quality when running quake4 or doom3. Rolling back to 8776 fixed it for me.

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rbl

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Registered: 2005-08-29

Posts: 64

Re: New NVIDIA in testing!

I'm experiencing less performance plus lots and lots of black textures in both ET and Q4. Also tried the beta 1.0.9742 drivers - same problem.
Arch64, GF7950GT

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Pierre

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From: Bonn

Registered: 2004-07-05

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Re: New NVIDIA in testing!

Funny. I have got a 7800GT and those problems ae solved by 9742.

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stmok

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From: Sydney, Australia

Registered: 2006-11-19

Posts: 72

Re: New NVIDIA in testing!

I've noticed an interesting issue when trying out these drivers with TORCS.

When I set all the quality settings on full (on my GF7600GS setup), the config Nvidia app forgets them all after each reboot.

I have to start the Nvidia app, click on APPLY and then QUIT, and it will apply the quality settings everytime I wanna play TORCS. (either from cold boot or reboot).

Has anyone else experienced this?
(The quality settings switch back to default after each boot or reboot)

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rbl

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Registered: 2005-08-29

Posts: 64

Re: New NVIDIA in testing!

stmok: I had the problem you described, too. The solution was to remove (or shorten) a line in ~/.nvidia-settings-rc - I remember it being the locale line. Seemed the configuration utility writes too much data in this line for nvidia-settings to read it back in. (I start "nvidia-settings -l" with my session to read and apply the settings on GNOME start.) After you have tweaked your graphics settings to your liking, comment this line out. It also helps to remove write access for your user to the file so the configuration utility won't mess with the line again (it will otherwise). The newest beta drivers seem to fix the whole issue.

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thaswiftness

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Registered: 2006-05-05

Posts: 42

Re: New NVIDIA in testing!

9631 working here with my Geforce4 420go. Which is quite the change for me from the previous 9xxx releases.

STiAT

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From: Vienna, Austria

Registered: 2004-12-23

Posts: 606

Re: New NVIDIA in testing!

1.0.9631-1 - also a problem with the textures.

i'll take a look at the rc, maybe i can get this out.

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