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dhave

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nvidia 185.13 drivers available

For you cutting-edge types, here are links to nvidia 185.13 drivers. They're at beta. Use at your own risk, I imagine. Post your results, please.

ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/185.13/
ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/185.13/

Last edited by dhave (2009-03-14 00:48:50)

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wonder

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Re: nvidia 185.13 drivers available

i'm waiting changelog. i didn't find it on there forum. hope that is something good

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Re: nvidia 185.13 drivers available

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthr … ?p=1957328

EDIT: Still no changelog, though.

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firecat53

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Re: nvidia 185.13 drivers available

I guess I need to go over to NV news and post or file a bug .... 185.13 does the same for my Geforce 7200 (arch64) that 180.29 did -- random screen flickering, and eventual hard lockup. 177.82 works great! Darn, I was hoping they'd fix that

Scott

Edit: Or I can go read the common problems FAQ there and fix it by adding pci=nommconf to my grub line. Well, that was easy. Sorry for the rant, but I didn't have to use that before the 180 series

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Berseker

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Re: nvidia 185.13 drivers available

google earth doesn't work with this driver version, at least for me.. it shows a grey screen, no errors but no planets displayed (^^)..

In fact, I use 3d accelerated driver only for GE and Compiz (this one works fine).. I think I'll return to 180.35 for now.

ps arch64, nvidia 185.13, nvidia 8600m GT

Last edited by Berseker (2009-03-14 09:20:37)

dhave

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Re: nvidia 185.13 drivers available

I've been running 185.13 for a number of hours and haven't yet seen any problems. My problems with 180.35 and 180.37 showed up right away.

My card is a Quadro FX 570M in a Thinkpad T-61p, and I'm running KDE4.2.1-1 with QT 4.4.3-5.

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Fackamato

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Re: nvidia 185.13 drivers available

I'm waiting for a changelog before I switch

dhave

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Re: nvidia 185.13 drivers available

I'm waiting for a changelog before I switch

You're probably the kind of guy who insists on actually meeting a girl before he marries her.

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Ranguvar

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Re: nvidia 185.13 drivers available

I hope it has some cool new stuff, given that it's 185.* now

Probably not this early, but KMS would be killer.

EDIT: Cool, look, some infos. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=n … &px=NzE0NA

Last edited by Ranguvar (2009-03-15 20:16:09)

haxit

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Re: nvidia 185.13 drivers available

I'm waiting for a changelog before I switch

You're probably the kind of guy who insists on actually meeting a girl before he marries her.

Lol, that was good.

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aantipop

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Re: nvidia 185.13 drivers available

im using kdemod on arch64. after installing these beta drivers x starts up, kde shows the login progress with the fading-in icons, but it does not switch to the desktop after that..

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Themaister

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Re: nvidia 185.13 drivers available

Works perfectly here Using just Openbox though. VDPAU also works really well

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toxygen

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Re: nvidia 185.13 drivers available

Maybe because i dont use a lot of 3d apps (other than compiz), but i havent had any problems with any of the beta/alpha/pre-release drivers (using 185.13 now).  always get nvidia-beta/nvidia-utils-beta (or fix the PKGBUILD) when the new drivers come out.

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cleanrock

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Re: nvidia 185.13 drivers available

185.13 seem stable for me in both dekstop, GL (spring) and VDPAU.
I had freezes with probably all 180 drivers but 185 has been fine so far.
I run gnome without composition (--no-composite).

Last edited by cleanrock (2009-03-17 07:14:49)

dhave

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Re: nvidia 185.13 drivers available

185.13 is still running fine for me after a week.

My card is a Quadro FX 570M in a Thinkpad T-61p, and I'm running KDE4.2.1-1 with QT 4.4.3-5.

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iBertus

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Re: nvidia 185.13 drivers available

This driver seems to really improve all aspects of performance for my 9800M card, especially when compiz is running. Without --loose-bindings the speed is almost never laggy. FPS in glxgears hovers around 4700 with this set of drivers while compiz is running and compiz effects are not slowed by the rendering.

Berseker

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Re: nvidia 185.13 drivers available

anyone runs Google Earth with this driver version? this is the only aspect that keeps me away from hold with this driver version. I get a greyish screen in place of the normal 3d view of the planet

iBertus

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Re: nvidia 185.13 drivers available

anyone runs Google Earth with this driver version? this is the only aspect that keeps me away from hold with this driver version. I get a greyish screen in place of the normal 3d view of the planet

If you are running 64-bit you'll have to rebuild lib32-nvidia-utils-beta for the new version of the driver. If you're on 32-bit then update nvidia-utils-beta.

Berseker

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Re: nvidia 185.13 drivers available

thanks iBertus, that solved my issue.

wonder

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Re: nvidia 185.13 drivers available

did they posted a changelog?

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iBertus

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Re: nvidia 185.13 drivers available

did they posted a changelog?

I haven't seen one yet. I'm not sure if this is going to happen until the next release is official.

On another note:

Has anyone else experienced horrible tearing when using the compiz expo plugin? This seems to happen with my laptop regardless of vsync with 185.13. This is the only issue that I'm currently aware of for this beta.

Rehto

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Re: nvidia 185.13 drivers available

I'm using now the latest beta drivers (185.19, noticed that their out today)
from nvidia with my 8800GT SLI and no problems so far \o/.
The real kicker is that with a recent build of mplayer-nogui-svn
(29119-1 & kernel 2.6.29.1-2) there's no tearing when using VDPAU output.
I used to test this with a couple of h264 720p and 1080p clips...
For more info check Phoronix:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=n … &px=NzE4Nw

Last edited by Rehto (2009-04-07 13:48:24)

Zariel

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Re: nvidia 185.13 drivers available

Im still pissed that my 8800GTS doesnt have VDPAU -_-

MoonSwan

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Re: nvidia 185.13 drivers available

Zariel, the 8800 GTS's don't support VDPAU at all?  That seems odd because I thought the hardware was pretty much identical to the GT or am I mistaken?

Teoulas

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Re: nvidia 185.13 drivers available

Unfortunately, the first 8800 GTS cards had a different chip (G80). The GT and later cards have a G92 chip. No VDPAU for us 8800 GTS owners...