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I'm quite fond of this driver set. Previous driver releases had more issues with xcompmgr than this one; e.g. Blender crashed the whole X server when starting with xcompmgr enabled. Not any longer; support for the composite extensions seems a lot more stable than before.
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My KDE 3.4 also freezes with nvidia, no im running kde with the default nv driver, but it would be nice if opengl is working
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for those with freezing/crashing X:
it would help if you post your card and if you use composite or not.
then i can fill the known issues section in nvidia wiki.
and please post stuff only if you use my package, because i add patches to the drivers and plain drivers don't have those.
atm it looks like again that gf4 mx cards are affected and one was with a gf2 card, but was this mx or something else?
btw are tnt2 card working again they were also broken in last release.
thanks for helping me collecting info.
greetings tpowa
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I've had trouble with a GF 2, but only when browsing sourceforge download sites, go figure. When it happens, it crashes hard, keyboard doesn't work (no ctrl-alt-backspace!!!!). Mouse moves, but does not respond to clicks. Have to reset it to get anything working again.
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hudson: Thanks, that worked. Guess I'll have to keep an eye on whether new groups are added. I remember having to do the same with audio not that long ago.
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hi i read on nvidia forum that disabling render accelaration can help to prevent those crashes, can anybody confirm this?
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hi i read on nvidia forum that disabling render accelaration can help to prevent those crashes, can anybody confirm this?
Yes!
I was having a recurring problem with one script I was running in an xterm. Commenting out the RenderAccel "true" line and rerunning X allows the script to run.
I have no idea what was wrong with it, however.
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Dusty, from my experiences since the 4xxx versions, the hardware render acceleration seems to get 'schitzo' because of certain fonts (and don't ask me which ones).
In one NVIDIA version I remember (in conjunction with a certain X/freetype release), everything worked fine until I pulled up openoffice's font selection menu or from 'xfontsel'. Then, the sh$t would hit the fan. For everything else, and I mean everything else, it would work flawlessly....
I think I kept everything else the same, and only updated 'freetype' lib. Then, I didn't have those crashes anymore. That's my best guess from my own experiences using the hardware render acceleration.
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Strange, I have update my nvidia and I have no such problems at all, but I do not use composite since I have bad experiance of it. I tried to add an "Extensions" section in my xorg.conf with nothing in it and when i restarted xdm all frozed like a f***ing snow bitch. I guess you have to use gdm, but im not sure. Anyway, I have a Geforce 6800 le.
However, I got one thing that bothers me and that is I can not use vc/1,2,3..etc. When I try to switch to one of the VCs I only see lots of pixels like, red, green etc all over the screen. Why is that and how can I get rid of it.
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Oh, I almost forgot I have no nvidia logo either when I boot up, is not that I have disable it in xorg.conf, I want it but it does not shows up.
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This release is very buggy considering what it takes to crash your system (just running firefox). I've downgraded to 1.0.6629-2.
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KDE 3.4 doesn't like xcompmgr on my system--crashes often, sometimes already when opening a file browser window.
No problems with GNOME 2.10, mind. The driver is far more stable for me, with xcompmgr enabled, than the old one.
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update to new version
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again update to new version.
Does this X-server hangs still appear on certain chipsets?
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uff i had had many problems with the lasts nvidia drivers versions ( 7xxx). I prefer keep the old version 6xxx for a long time
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i am using the new driver, workes perfect on my geforce4200go
but then again, I have never had any problems at all with nvidia drivers ...
http://www.linuxportalen.com -> Linux Help portal for Linux and ArchLinux (in swedish)
Dell Inspiron 8500
Kernel 2.6.14-archck1 (selfcompiled)
Enlightenment 17
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i am using the new driver, workes perfect on my geforce4200go
but then again, I have never had any problems at all with nvidia drivers ...
but the problem is with my motherboard, my videocard is integrated ( gforce2 w/ asus a7n266-vm)
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ahh..ok I see..
mine is a laptop (well, not the card but it is in a laptop *smile* )
http://www.linuxportalen.com -> Linux Help portal for Linux and ArchLinux (in swedish)
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Kernel 2.6.14-archck1 (selfcompiled)
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MSI Delta2
1 GB RAM
GF-FX-5500
I have tried everything I can think of to get the new drivers to stop craching my system. Disabled rendering in xorg, disabled fastwrites in BIOS and in modprobe.conf, Lowered the AGP to 4x instead of 8x in BIOS and still I get lockups. Dmesg always has the NVRM errors listed. Sometimes I can get out of the freeze, other times not. Think I'm going to go back to a older ver. with some stability.
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you are affected by the nvidia not supporting too old GPU's anymore
please stay with old driver until the legacy drivers will be released.
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EDIT: Moved to separate thread.
Last edited by KomodoDave (2007-04-22 13:41:37)
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Hi everyone... I'm using a:
Nvidia GeForce4 440 Go in a
Dell Inspiron 8200 with
kernel 2.6.21-ARCH from current repository
and I get low FPS with the pkg from repository
nvidia-96xx 1.0.9639-1
NVIDIA legacy drivers for kernel26, 96xx branch
I tried what it was posbile for me... I'm not really good with nvidia drivers, I just intall the pkg's from the repository, I will thank any help.
This is mi install-log:
nvidia-installer log file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log'
creation time: Tue Dec 12 09:27:48 2006
option status:
license pre-accepted : false
update : false
force update : false
expert : false
uninstall : false
driver info : false
precompiled interfaces : true
no ncurses color : false
query latest version : false
OpenGL header files : true
no questions : false
silent : false
no recursion : false
no backup : false
kernel module only : false
sanity : false
add this kernel : false
no runlevel check : false
no network : false
no ABI note : false
no RPMs : false
no kernel module : false
force SELinux : default
no X server check : false
force tls : (not specified)
X install prefix : (not specified)
X library install path : (not specified)
X module install path : (not specified)
OpenGL install prefix : (not specified)
OpenGL install libdir : (not specified)
utility install prefix : (not specified)
utility install libdir : (not specified)
doc install prefix : (not specified)
kernel name : (not specified)
kernel include path : (not specified)
kernel source path : (not specified)
kernel output path : (not specified)
kernel install path : (not specified)
proc mount point : /proc
ui : (not specified)
tmpdir : /tmp
ftp mirror : ftp://download.nvidia.com
RPM file list : (not specified)
Using: nvidia-installer ncurses user interface
-> License accepted.
-> No precompiled kernel interface was found to match your kernel; would you li
ke the installer to attempt to download a kernel interface for your kernel f
rom the NVIDIA ftp site (ftp://download.nvidia.com)? (Answer: Yes)
-> No matching precompiled kernel interface was found on the NVIDIA ftp site;
this means that the installer will need to compile a kernel interface for
your kernel.
-> Performing CC sanity check with CC="cc".
-> Performing CC version check with CC="cc".
-> Kernel source path: '/lib/modules/2.6.19-ARCH/build'
-> Kernel output path: '/lib/modules/2.6.19-ARCH/build'
-> Performing rivafb check.
-> Performing nvidiafb check.
-> Cleaning kernel module build directory.
executing: 'cd ./usr/src/nv; make clean'...
rm -f -f nv.o nv-vm.o os-agp.o os-interface.o os-registry.o nv-i2c.o nv.o nv
-vm.o os-agp.o os-interface.o os-registry.o nv-i2c.o nvidia.mod.o
rm -f -f build-in.o nv-linux.o *.d .*.{cmd,flags}
rm -f -f nvidia.{o,ko,mod.{o,c}} nv_compiler.h *~
rm -f -f stprof stprof.o symtab.h Modules.symvers
rm -f -rf .tmp_versions
-> Building kernel module:
executing: 'cd ./usr/src/nv; make module SYSSRC=/lib/modules/2.6.19-ARCH/bui
ld SYSOUT=/lib/modules/2.6.19-ARCH/build'...
NVIDIA: left KBUILD.
-> done.
-> Kernel module compilation complete.
-> Kernel messages:
slamr: SmartLink AMRMO modem.
slamr: device 8086:2486 is grabbed by another driver
ohci_hcd: 2006 August 04 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
pcmcia: Detected deprecated PCMCIA ioctl usage from process: lshwd.
pcmcia: This interface will soon be removed from the kernel; please expect
breakage unless you upgrade to new tools.
pcmcia: see http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/pcmcia.html
for details.
eth0: setting full-duplex.
NET: Registered protocol family 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
Mobile IPv6
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode
NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel Module 1.0-9631 Thu Nov 9 17:38:10
PST 2006
agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode
agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode
agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode
NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel Module 1.0-9631 Thu Nov 9 17:38:10
PST 2006
-> Installing both new and classic TLS OpenGL libraries.
-> Searching for conflicting X files:
-> done.
-> Searching for conflicting OpenGL files:
-> done.
-> Installing 'NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86' (1.0-9631):
executing: '/sbin/ldconfig'...
executing: '/sbin/depmod -aq'...
-> done.
-> Driver file installation is complete.
-> Running post-install sanity check:
-> done.
-> Post-install sanity check passed.
-> Shared memory test passed.
-> Running runtime sanity check:
-> done.
-> Runtime sanity check passed.
-> Would you like to run the nvidia-xconfig utility to automatically update you
r X configuration file so that the NVIDIA X driver will be used when you res
tart X? Any pre-existing X configuration file will be backed up. (Answer: Y
es)
-> Your X configuration file has been successfully updated. Installation of
the NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86 (version: 1.0-9631) is
now complete.
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