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oliwer

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From: Paris

Registered: 2007-06-30

Posts: 153

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Packaging nividia-177.67

Last night I tried to use the new beta nvidia driver which is supposed to solve the low 2D performance problem.

I used the PKGBUILD in ABS and just modified the pkgver. It compiled despite lots of warnings. Then I installed the package and rebooted. Unfortunately, Xserver refused to start. It said that the kernel driver was 177.67 whereas the X driver was still 173.xx.

What did I missed ?

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somedrew

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From: Canada

Registered: 2007-05-14

Posts: 140

Re: Packaging nividia-177.67

Did you update nvidia-utils as well?

oliwer

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From: Paris

Registered: 2007-06-30

Posts: 153

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Re: Packaging nividia-177.67

Damn it ! I thought nvidia-utils was just for nvidia-settings. Stupid of me

But then, why do they split the driver in 2 packages ? Is there any point of having only the kernel module without the X driver ?

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zyghom

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From: Poland/currently Africa

Registered: 2006-05-11

Posts: 432

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Re: Packaging nividia-177.67

with 177.67  glxgears shows 40 fps
with 13 it is 4000 fps
why ?

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dhave

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From: Outside the matrix.

Registered: 2005-05-15

Posts: 1,112

Re: Packaging nividia-177.67

After using both methods numerous times, I've pretty much decided that with the nvidia drivers, it's better to install using the stock installer provided on the nvidia site. I really like the AUR system and use it heavily, but with a few things -- VMware, VirtualBox, along with nvidia -- I've found that it's more straightforward to use the stock installers.

I'm glad that people go to the trouble of making PKGBUILDS for all these things, just the same.

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iBertus

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From: Greenville, NC

Registered: 2004-11-04

Posts: 2,228

Re: Packaging nividia-177.67

wOOt! These drivers support GTX280 in SLI on skulltrail. I'm seeing the same issue though with gxlgears, as mine is now 5600 fps instead of the 9000 fps with a single GTX280 and 177.13 drivers.