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Joffer

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Registered: 2006-01-12

Posts: 69

Nvidia 8800GT works fine with nvidia-beta :)

This was supposed to be a thread about me not getting nvidia (nvidia-beta (v169.04-2) from AUR that is) module to load, and to get some info on the output I got I reran the 'yaourt -S nvidia' command. Just before I hit "post" I figured I'd try to load the kernel and it worked. I logged out and restarted GDM and here I am, back with compiz and my wobbly windows

I don't know why it worked though, cause I would think something was missing when I saw this when I ran 'yaourt -S nvidia-beta':

==> Validating source files with md5sums
    NVIDIA-Linux-x86-169.04-pkg1.run ... Passed
==> Extracting Sources...
==> Starting build()...
Creating directory NVIDIA-Linux-x86-169.04-pkg1
Verifying archive integrity... OK
Uncompressing NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86 169.04...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
NVIDIA: calling KBUILD...
make CC=cc  KBUILD_VERBOSE=1 -C /lib/modules/2.6.23-ARCH/build SUBDIRS=/tmp/yaourt-tmp-joffer/aur-nvidia-beta/nvidia-beta/src/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-169.04-pkg1/usr/src/nv modules
test -e include/linux/autoconf.h -a -e include/config/auto.conf || (        \
    echo;                                \
    echo "  ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid.";        \
    echo "         include/linux/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are missing.";    \
    echo "         Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src to fix it.";    \
    echo;                                \
    /bin/false)
mkdir -p /tmp/yaourt-tmp-joffer/aur-nvidia-beta/nvidia-beta/src/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-169.04-pkg1/usr/src/nv/.tmp_versions
...

Anyway, it loaded just fine. Doesn't look like the ERROR notice inside there was real. Or?.

Not that it's a good benchmark, but the 8800GT flies with flying colors in the simple glxgears "benchmark":

With metacity:

[joffer@matrix ~]$ glxgears 
98878 frames in 5.0 seconds = 19775.413 FPS
99007 frames in 5.0 seconds = 19801.400 FPS
99202 frames in 5.0 seconds = 19840.210 FPS
99733 frames in 5.0 seconds = 19946.476 FPS

[joffer@matrix ~]$ glxgears -fullscreen
9881 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1976.127 FPS
9942 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1988.323 FPS
9958 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1991.526 FPS
9956 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1991.181 FPS

With compiz:

[joffer@matrix ~]$ glxgears 
67850 frames in 5.0 seconds = 13569.878 FPS
67136 frames in 5.0 seconds = 13427.090 FPS
68268 frames in 5.0 seconds = 13653.482 FPS

[joffer@matrix ~]$ glxgears -fullscreen
8772 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1754.361 FPS
8774 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1754.541 FPS
8774 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1754.672 FPS

Last edited by Joffer (2007-12-19 00:04:11)

sebleblanc

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From: Montréal, Canada

Registered: 2007-12-21

Posts: 41

Re: Nvidia 8800GT works fine with nvidia-beta :)

It is only echoing the install script. All you're seeing is a portion of the install script itself.

Nice framerate though.

The most I can get is that:

[sebleblanc@dynamite ~]$ glxgears
6223 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1243.890 FPS
5045 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1008.490 FPS
5057 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1011.185 FPS
5967 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1193.209 FPS

jacko

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Registered: 2007-11-23

Posts: 840

Re: Nvidia 8800GT works fine with nvidia-beta :)

[jasin@kermit ~]$ glxgears -fullscreen
19336 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3867.127 FPS
19582 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3916.388 FPS
19555 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3910.901 FPS
19538 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3907.421 FPS

I have a 8600 gt, but yet u beat me in regular window FPS.

Fackamato

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Registered: 2006-03-31

Posts: 579

Re: Nvidia 8800GT works fine with nvidia-beta :)

No reason to use the beta anymore, nvidia has released a stable version of the 169 driver. Just wait for package updates, or modify the pkgbuilds yourselves (which I did).

kungfoo

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Registered: 2006-09-09

Posts: 43

Re: Nvidia 8800GT works fine with nvidia-beta :)

Same goes for here, also using the beta. Would anyone feel as free as to post the updated PKGBUILD?

ProgDan

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From: Prague, Czech Republic

Registered: 2007-10-04

Posts: 441

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Re: Nvidia 8800GT works fine with nvidia-beta :)

I have some time, so I've adopted packages nvidia-beta and nvidia-utils-beta. Updated to 169.09.

Last edited by ProgDan (2008-02-10 22:20:35)