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tim

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2006-10-29

Posts: 98

KDE 4.2 with NVIDIA now perfect.

OK I just thought I'd post this in case others with nvidia gfx cards are experiencing crashes with KDE 4.2 and are looking for something to try.

I was experiencing artifacts and then a few seconds later a blank screen. No virtual terminals were accessable and I couldn't restart xorg with ctrl alt backspace. This would happen every 5 minutes or so. I had the 180.22 drivers.

So following the suggestion in: http://bbs.archlinux.org:80/viewtopic.php?id=63993 I installed the 180.25 driver and now I have a completely stable system. Just smooth and fast wobbly windows :-) No crashes AND suspend now works perfectly and very fast.

Here are the links if you want to try them out.

ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/180.25
ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/180.25

I used the x86_64 pkg2.

Last edited by tim (2009-01-29 11:54:09)

Slammer64

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From: Ozark Mountains of Missouri

Registered: 2007-07-28

Posts: 113

Re: KDE 4.2 with NVIDIA now perfect.

tim, I am using the 180.27 drivers, they came out late last night and mine's great.

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Hohoho

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Registered: 2007-06-23

Posts: 222

Re: KDE 4.2 with NVIDIA now perfect.

Looks like suspending really got fixed, thats a relief.
Yet scrolling still is jerky everywhere for a few seconds and then it gets fast.

tim

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2006-10-29

Posts: 98

Re: KDE 4.2 with NVIDIA now perfect.

tim, I am using the 180.27 drivers, they came out late last night and mine's great.

Awesome. Someone game enough to try 27. I wasn't. I had only just finished installing from scratch (new kernel broke UUID stuff me so I couldn't boot and gave up trying to fix it) when I found out about 25 and then that night 27 come out. So I left it alone. I wanted to finally enjoy KDE 4 for a little while before most likely breaking things again as I tend to do by playing with things I don't understand ;-)

Anyway, how does the nvidia release system work. Is 27 'beta' or is it 'release'? Most importantly I suppose is whether you used 25 and if so do you notice any difference with 27?

Slammer64

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From: Ozark Mountains of Missouri

Registered: 2007-07-28

Posts: 113

Re: KDE 4.2 with NVIDIA now perfect.

They said on NVNEWS that it was a release, I took all my tweaks out of my xorg.conf and it runs beatifully, one caveat, I run without compositing (it interferes with some games I like) and I have not testing that part.

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lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: KDE 4.2 with NVIDIA now perfect.

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=122606
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthr … ?p=1916380

It's a prerelease and the only change from .25 is the addition of OpenGL3 support.

Slammer64

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From: Ozark Mountains of Missouri

Registered: 2007-07-28

Posts: 113

Re: KDE 4.2 with NVIDIA now perfect.

Thanks for the info lucke

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zchira

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Registered: 2008-01-13

Posts: 32

Re: KDE 4.2 with NVIDIA now perfect.

I am planning to switch on kde4 (or kdemod4).
I have nvidia GF5700 and I am using nvidia driver from  nvidia-173xx package (http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra … dia-173xx/).
Is this driver is OK?
Will kde4 works OK with them?
I can not use drivers from nvidia (180.22-1) package because they are not proper for my card.

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tim

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2006-10-29

Posts: 98

Re: KDE 4.2 with NVIDIA now perfect.

I am planning to switch on kde4 (or kdemod4).
I have nvidia GF5700 and I am using nvidia driver from  nvidia-173xx package (http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra … dia-173xx/).
Is this driver is OK?
Will kde4 works OK with them?
I can not use drivers from nvidia (180.22-1) package because they are not proper for my card.

If you can't use the 180-22 drivers then you can't use the 180.25 or 180.27 drivers either.

1LordAnubis

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Registered: 2008-10-10

Posts: 253

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Re: KDE 4.2 with NVIDIA now perfect.

I am planning to switch on kde4 (or kdemod4).
I have nvidia GF5700 and I am using nvidia driver from  nvidia-173xx package (http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra … dia-173xx/).
Is this driver is OK?
Will kde4 works OK with them?
I can not use drivers from nvidia (180.22-1) package because they are not proper for my card.

I have a Geforce6800 with the 173 driver....
kde crashed at startup until i removed Option         "BackingStore" "True"
and I experienced messed up gtk fonts on my tabs in firefox, and other applications, but everything seems to work since I removed Option         "PixmapCacheSize" "300000"

zchira: works amazingly with the nvidia-173xx package; I use kdemod.
a couple of screenies... http://knightsofreason.org/forum/viewto … 178#p61178

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zchira

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Registered: 2008-01-13

Posts: 32

Re: KDE 4.2 with NVIDIA now perfect.

Thanks to all.
I installed kdemo4 and, almost everything seems to be ok

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