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Devastator

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Registered: 2008-05-27

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Re: nVidia's 180-series drivers finally going stable!

I hope it would make KDE4 usable in my case .

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From: NJ, USA

Registered: 2007-08-04

Posts: 620

Re: nVidia's 180-series drivers finally going stable!

These are AMAZING for 2D applications.  My GTK performance is sick.

But my CS 1.6 framerate completely tanked.  I'm 70fps stable with 177, and with this driver I'm lucky to have 30.

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Plazmic

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From: Tampa, FL

Registered: 2009-01-14

Posts: 2

Re: nVidia's 180-series drivers finally going stable!

These are AMAZING for 2D applications.  My GTK performance is sick.

But my CS 1.6 framerate completely tanked.  I'm 70fps stable with 177, and with this driver I'm lucky to have 30.

I think you may have powermizer issues. The 3d performance gains I see on a GTX 260 are about 3-5% depending on application. Image quality is the same but I no longer have *any* microstutter on 180.22.

maattd

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From: Toulouse, France

Registered: 2008-08-23

Posts: 56

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Re: nVidia's 180-series drivers finally going stable!

Someone can get vdpau working with mplayer?

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From: NJ, USA

Registered: 2007-08-04

Posts: 620

Re: nVidia's 180-series drivers finally going stable!

These are AMAZING for 2D applications.  My GTK performance is sick.

But my CS 1.6 framerate completely tanked.  I'm 70fps stable with 177, and with this driver I'm lucky to have 30.

I think you may have powermizer issues. The 3d performance gains I see on a GTX 260 are about 3-5% depending on application. Image quality is the same but I no longer have *any* microstutter on 180.22.

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthr … ?p=1868738

I have this problem.

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phisphere

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From: Tallinn, Estonia

Registered: 2007-03-05

Posts: 136

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Re: nVidia's 180-series drivers finally going stable!

180.22 drivers will make kde4 finally usable with nvidia graphics card.
running it right now and it's working very well for the first time with kde4 (including 3d compositing).

Barghest

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From: Hanau/Germany

Registered: 2008-01-03

Posts: 563

Re: nVidia's 180-series drivers finally going stable!

With the latest update today everything feels (no, it actually is) VERY slow. Scrolling in FF, opening the openbox root menu, tabbing between windows....

Before I didn't have any issues.

These are the only entries in my xorg.conf:

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Card0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    BoardName      "GeForce 7600 GT"
    Option         "NoLogo" "true"
EndSection

What is working now is the option NoLogo...it refuses to disable the logo before ;b

Last edited by Barghest (2009-01-16 12:55:46)

kaijinexia

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From: Nantes, France

Registered: 2008-08-04

Posts: 4

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Re: nVidia's 180-series drivers finally going stable!

I was trying to compile mplayer with vdpau but the build system cannot find "vdpau.h" which should come with the drivers, any information about this ?

brazzmonkey

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From: between keyboard and chair

Registered: 2006-03-16

Posts: 818

Re: nVidia's 180-series drivers finally going stable!

>Fixed a regression that could result in window decoration corruption when running Compiz using Geforce 6 and 7 series GPUs.

I really hope this means my troubles are over. It's been months since NVIDIA drivers became real crap on my machines...

Well, these actually don't solve anything in my case, I'm still getting artefacts and light freezes on KDE 4 when desktop effects are disabled, long freezes and heavily disturbing artefacts with desktop effect enabled. Crappy Nvidia.

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Berseker

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From: Near Lecco, Italy

Registered: 2008-04-24

Posts: 258

Re: nVidia's 180-series drivers finally going stable!

With the latest update today everything feels (no, it actually is) VERY slow. Scrolling in FF, opening the openbox root menu, tabbing between windows....

Before I didn't have any issues.

These are the only entries in my xorg.conf:

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Card0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    BoardName      "GeForce 7600 GT"
    Option         "NoLogo" "true"
EndSection

What is working now is the option NoLogo...it refuses to disable the logo before ;b

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Nvidia8600GT"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    Option "NoLogo"                     "True"
    Option "RenderAccel"                "True"
    Option "NoRenderExtension"          "False"
    Option "TripleBuffer"               "True"
    Option "OnDemandVBlankInterrupts"   "True"
    Option "AllowGLXWithComposite"      "True"
    Option "NvAGP"                      "0"
    Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals"          "True"
    Option "AllowSHMPixmaps"            "1"   
    Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals"          "True"
    Option "AllowGLXWithComposite"      "True"
    Option "ConnectedMonitor"           "DFP" # use CRT, or DFP for LCD monitors
    VideoRAM 262144
EndSection

this is my device section, i've not significant issues with my 8600m GT card. try some of these options

pseudomind

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From: United States

Registered: 2005-11-18

Posts: 19

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Re: nVidia's 180-series drivers finally going stable!

These are AMAZING for 2D applications.  My GTK performance is sick.

But my CS 1.6 framerate completely tanked.  I'm 70fps stable with 177, and with this driver I'm lucky to have 30.

I think you may have powermizer issues. The 3d performance gains I see on a GTX 260 are about 3-5% depending on application. Image quality is the same but I no longer have *any* microstutter on 180.22.

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthr … ?p=1868738

I have this problem.

I am having some serious performance issues as well, but I was trying to play savage. Using the 177.xx driver I was getting upwards of 90fps, now I am getting a solid 12. That is unless there is some actual action going on, then I would get less. If anybody has a copy of the nvidia-177.xx-x86_64 driver, I would very much like to get a copy of it from you. I had to run a pacman -Scc just around a week ago and so now I am essentially screwed.

cerbie

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Registered: 2008-03-16

Posts: 124

Re: nVidia's 180-series drivers finally going stable!

Video tearing was my only problem (fixed, but not solved). Beyond that, I've had no issues with it. Qt, Kwin, and Compiz performance are now exceptional; compared with the previous 170-series driver (and then I went right back to Openbox, but Qt menus working right and fast 100% of the time is very nice).

My only big trouble right now is that WINE can't seem to do D3D9 pixel shaders. It will take more work to find out if that's WINE or nVidia, though.

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skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: nVidia's 180-series drivers finally going stable!

I was trying to compile mplayer with vdpau but the build system cannot find "vdpau.h" which should come with the drivers, any information about this ?

It looks like the Arch PKGBUILD doesn't handle them. If you download the nVidia driver, and run the installer script with --extract-only, you'll find the headers. If it works here, I'll try to fix the PKGBUILD.

venky80

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Registered: 2007-05-13

Posts: 1,002

Re: nVidia's 180-series drivers finally going stable!

iam getting following error

[venky@ARCHROCKS Firefox Download]$ mplayer -vo vdpau -vc ffh264vdpau the_dark_knight-tlr3_h1080p.mov
MPlayer dev-SVN-r27960-4.3.2 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     T8300  @ 2.40GHz (Family: 6, Model: 23, Stepping: 6)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
129 audio & 262 video codecs

Playing the_dark_knight-tlr3_h1080p.mov.
libavformat file format detected.
[lavf] Video stream found, -vid 0
[lavf] Audio stream found, -aid 1
VIDEO:  [avc1]  1920x816  24bpp  23.976 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
 name: The Dark Knight
 copyright:  2008 Warner Bros. Pictures. All Rights Reserved
 comments: Encoded and delivered by apple.com/trailers/
==========================================================================
Forced video codec: ffh264vdpau
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
[VD_FFMPEG] VDPAU accelerated codec.
Selected video codec: [ffh264vdpau] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264 (VDPAU))
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [faad] AAC (MPEG2/4 Advanced Audio Coding)
FAAD: compressed input bitrate missing, assuming 128kbit/s!
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/8.33% (ratio: 16000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [faad] afm: faad (FAAD AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio) decoder)
==========================================================================
AO: [oss] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
[VD_FFMPEG] Trying pixfmt=0.
VDec: vo config request - 1920 x 816 (preferred colorspace: H.264 MAIN VDPAU acceleration)
VDec: using H.264 MAIN VDPAU acceleration as output csp (no 1)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [vdpau] 1920x816 => 1920x816 H.264 MAIN VDPAU acceleration
Error 23 at libvo/vo_vdpau.c:736

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uorbe001

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Registered: 2008-04-11

Posts: 27

Re: nVidia's 180-series drivers finally going stable!

I wouldn't recommend this driver. I had an issue (messy picture on screen and hard system lockup) that has been reported many times on nvnews.net. I used beta driver, but they didn't change it in stable. I will stay with 177.xx. I don't want to scary you but one user has reported that this issue broke his card.

EDIT: some evidence http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=123912

I upgraded and I'm noticing this issue, but I can't find the 177.xx package in any repos, does anyone have it for x86_64?? Please...

sand_man

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-06-10

Posts: 2,164

Re: nVidia's 180-series drivers finally going stable!

I wouldn't recommend this driver. I had an issue (messy picture on screen and hard system lockup) that has been reported many times on nvnews.net. I used beta driver, but they didn't change it in stable. I will stay with 177.xx. I don't want to scary you but one user has reported that this issue broke his card.

EDIT: some evidence http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=123912

I upgraded and I'm noticing this issue, but I can't find the 177.xx package in any repos, does anyone have it for x86_64?? Please...

I still have it in my cache but I'm at work right now so I can't help you just yet.
I rolled back to 177 simply because VirtualBox modules don't work with the new kernel

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uorbe001

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Registered: 2008-04-11

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Re: nVidia's 180-series drivers finally going stable!

I still have it in my cache but I'm at work right now so I can't help you just yet.
I rolled back to 177 simply because VirtualBox modules don't work with the new kernel

Yup, that's another problem, I managed to find the 177.72 package, but it needs the 2.6.27 kernel, I'll have to look for it if I keep having the problem, but today I've been like 7 hours without crashes after I removed the xorg.conf and made a new one with nvidia-xconfig, I'll have to check what's different between my previous configuration and the new one if it keeps working fine....

firecat53

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From: Lake Stevens, WA, USA

Registered: 2007-05-14

Posts: 1,542

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Re: nVidia's 180-series drivers finally going stable!

This post has some information about making the 177.82 driver work with the 2.6.28 kernel. Search specifically for 177.82 driver on the nvidia site (for both x86 and x86_64) and then use the patch as provided on the nvnews forum (works for both x86 and x86_64). I have the 177.82 driver running happily on x86_64 with the 2.6.28 kernel (also, sand_man, with virtualbox_bin 2.1.0-2 running happily as well).

Good luck!
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Roberth

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From: The Pale Blue Dot

Registered: 2007-01-12

Posts: 894

Re: nVidia's 180-series drivers finally going stable!

iam getting following error

[venky@ARCHROCKS Firefox Download]$ mplayer -vo vdpau -vc ffh264vdpau the_dark_knight-tlr3_h1080p.mov
MPlayer dev-SVN-r27960-4.3.2 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     T8300  @ 2.40GHz (Family: 6, Model: 23, Stepping: 6)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
129 audio & 262 video codecs

Playing the_dark_knight-tlr3_h1080p.mov.
libavformat file format detected.
[lavf] Video stream found, -vid 0
[lavf] Audio stream found, -aid 1
VIDEO:  [avc1]  1920x816  24bpp  23.976 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
 name: The Dark Knight
 copyright:  2008 Warner Bros. Pictures. All Rights Reserved
 comments: Encoded and delivered by apple.com/trailers/
==========================================================================
Forced video codec: ffh264vdpau
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
[VD_FFMPEG] VDPAU accelerated codec.
Selected video codec: [ffh264vdpau] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264 (VDPAU))
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [faad] AAC (MPEG2/4 Advanced Audio Coding)
FAAD: compressed input bitrate missing, assuming 128kbit/s!
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/8.33% (ratio: 16000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [faad] afm: faad (FAAD AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio) decoder)
==========================================================================
AO: [oss] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
[VD_FFMPEG] Trying pixfmt=0.
VDec: vo config request - 1920 x 816 (preferred colorspace: H.264 MAIN VDPAU acceleration)
VDec: using H.264 MAIN VDPAU acceleration as output csp (no 1)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [vdpau] 1920x816 => 1920x816 H.264 MAIN VDPAU acceleration
Error 23 at libvo/vo_vdpau.c:736

--- mplayer-vdpau-orig/libvo/vo_vdpau.c    2009-01-07 21:24:31.000000000 +0100
+++ mplayer-vdpau/libvo/vo_vdpau.c    2009-01-07 21:26:00.000000000 +0100
@@ -701,7 +701,7 @@
             uint32_t round_width = (vid_width + 15) & ~15;
             uint32_t round_height = (vid_height + 15) & ~15;
             uint32_t surf_size = (round_width * round_height * 3) / 2;
-            max_references = (12 * 1024 * 1024) / surf_size;
+            max_references = ((12 * 1024 * 1024) / surf_size) + 11;
             if (max_references > 16) {
                 max_references = 16;
             }

This patch fixes the issue, the only side effect with it is that it makes mplayer with vdpau use a lot more video ram, but you should be just fine if you got 512 mb vram.

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aqtrans

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Registered: 2008-07-25

Posts: 30

Re: nVidia's 180-series drivers finally going stable!

My card is a 7800GS.
Ugh, 180.22 entirely fubared my Compiz. It starts loading, then the entire screen corrupts and freezes. Looks like it's the same issue known on nvnews.net.
I installed 180.16 and it works, so I guess I'll stick with that for now.

Zibi1981

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From: Poland

Registered: 2008-01-31

Posts: 644

Re: nVidia's 180-series drivers finally going stable!

Does anyone have a laptop with nVidia GeForce 8600M GT on 180.22 drivers and 2.6.28 kernel, in which suspend to RAM works? I just cannot make it happen

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loudtiger

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Registered: 2009-01-08

Posts: 68

Re: nVidia's 180-series drivers finally going stable!

suspend to RAM is broken in 180.22 but there are some reports of 180.25 fixing it.
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=126962

I am personally still waiting until the graphical glitch is confirmed fixed before moving from 177.x

Zibi1981

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From: Poland

Registered: 2008-01-31

Posts: 644

Re: nVidia's 180-series drivers finally going stable!

i'm curios to find out where is opengl 3.0

glxinfo | grep OpenGL
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce 8600M GT/PCI/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 2.1.2 NVIDIA 180.22
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20 NVIDIA via Cg compiler

EDIT: maybe there is but it doesn't been used by xorg

Read here

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Slammer64

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From: Ozark Mountains of Missouri

Registered: 2007-07-28

Posts: 113

Re: nVidia's 180-series drivers finally going stable!

The new nVidia driver that came out last night 180.27 is supposed to support openGL 3.0, and it shows up in my install of it. Here's the info: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthr … ?p=1916380

Last edited by Slammer64 (2009-01-29 16:40:25)

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Zibi1981

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From: Poland

Registered: 2008-01-31

Posts: 644

Re: nVidia's 180-series drivers finally going stable!

I'm installing it at the moment from AUR. Hope S2RAM will work at last

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