Comments on: New NVIDIA Drivers

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Sat, 07 Jun 2003 18:49:36 +0000

I have a GFXF5200 and with the new drivers is a no go. The older drivers won’t work because it’s a new chipset. It seems that just Red Hat users are getting the new drivers to work!!
Anyone out there that has figured it out, please post.

By: epostma

epostma — Wed, 02 Apr 2003 19:42:21 +0000

Hi there,

on my configuration quite a serious bug turned up: the installer replaces /dev/null with a [i]regular file[/i], completely screwing up the system. In my case, I couldn’t log in [i]at all[/i], not even to a text console — let alone that any network component or X would start. In other words, the only thing I could do was reboot.

Once I found out what was the problem, it was easy to fix. For the less tech-savvy: find a rescue disk somewhere, then as root do
[q]mknod -m 666 /dev/null c 1 3 [/q]
and then reboot; it should work again. Don’t know yet why it failed for me and (apparently) not for anybody else.

By:

Tue, 01 Apr 2003 20:07:07 +0000

Debian sid/unstable user here. 2.4.20 kernel and all I have to say is the last two releases of the Nvidia drivers are crap.

They need to split it back into NVdriver and nvidia….

By:

Mon, 31 Mar 2003 23:00:02 +0000

Crashes….. easy to reproduce too…. go to http://www.thehun.net and move the cursor over the links, after a few minutes X freezes, and I have to use SysRQ keys to reboot the machine (or ssh from another box) I’ve had this problem with the whole 4xxx series… sticking with 3123 here. Oh, its not a distro problem, same problem with Slack 7.x 8.x Redhat 8.0 and Gentoo 1.4 all w/ versions of X ranging from 4.2.1 to 4.3 and glibc 2.95 through 2.3.2….. Really disappointed here. Oh, drivers work fine w/ Gnome, and KDE < 2.99. I’m so fed up with this crap, is anyone else having this problem?

By: Dougst3r

Dougst3r — Mon, 31 Mar 2003 17:38:45 +0000

It compiled itself and seemed to do everything it is supposed to do, and it works. My impression is that X is running a bit speedier. My Neverwinter Nights framerate didn’t seem to change much one way or the other.

By:

Mon, 31 Mar 2003 17:12:26 +0000

I’d like to know when they will support 2.5.x… I have been enjoying it since 2.5.60 and I’d hate to have to reboot into 2.4.20.

By:

Mon, 31 Mar 2003 16:56:20 +0000

uhm, I hope 2d slowness was fixed. it wasn’t just restricted to obscure stuff that nautilus did…

By:

Mon, 31 Mar 2003 16:55:12 +0000

A few weeks ago, I was hoping that it wouldn’t take NVidia too long after RH9 was released to release their own drivers. Now, not only have they released their drivers for RH9 a week before RH9 itself is available to the greater public, they’ve also added a lot of bleeding-edge (well, for XF86, at least) features to it.

Just reading the README file, i see that they have support for Thread-local storage (TLS) in the latest glibc’s, hardware-accelerate XRENDER support(!), X-Video Motion Compensation (XvMC)

Exciting stuff

By:

Mon, 31 Mar 2003 14:55:43 +0000

I was just going through the README file of the new driver and I must say it gave me the impression that NVidia has at least one guy working for them that’s pretty Linux-savvy. I like the options they’ve put on their version of the installer (Loki-based?) and their documentation is pretty complete.

Nice to know there’s someone there seriously looking out for Linux and has the capacity to do so.

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Mon, 31 Mar 2003 14:25:17 +0000

great, now i have to download 6.2MB’s of crap instead of 2.7MB’s just to have the installer download even more crap to get it going…..this is not progress.