Comments on: Linux 2.6.9 and NVIDIA

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Mon, 25 Oct 2004 18:44:31 +0000

… I’m running it (nvidia-kernel-1.0.6111-r2) and I’m having the kswapd issue.

I’ll retry after I’m done building gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.9-r1..

By: feendster

feendster — Sun, 24 Oct 2004 22:42:37 +0000

I was having a devil of a time w/ Nvidia’s drivers and 2.6.9. I said hell w/ it and went back to 2.6.8.1.

By: ashridah

ashridah — Sun, 24 Oct 2004 18:51:20 +0000

The scheduler in 2.6.9 sucks balls anyway, because of a mistake linus made when applying a patch or something. There are fixes around, naturally.

UT, UT2xxx, and to a lesser extent doom3, all run like crap on linux 2.6.9 here, with kswapd taking up huge chunks of cpu but not actually moving any swap around.

it’s particularly noticable in UT, where the game has a fantastic framerate, but only actually renders anything for about half a second, every second. :)

By: Dweebs

Dweebs — Sun, 24 Oct 2004 17:05:03 +0000

Looks like the original post was edited to say that Gentoo’s nvidia-kernel packages already have this patch applied. So, that explains why this has not been an issue for me at least.

By: MNKyDeth

MNKyDeth — Sun, 24 Oct 2004 16:28:22 +0000

I always download my kernels from kernel.org and this problem is very real. I have tried the patched nvidia drivers and they work.
I also know that using the ck1 patch for the kernel will allow you to install the regular unpatched nvidia drivers.

By:

Sun, 24 Oct 2004 16:19:16 +0000

hmmm, is there another 2.6.9 that i don’t know about ?, unless the patch is part of an option i did not enable in the kernel ?.

By: Dweebs

Dweebs — Sun, 24 Oct 2004 16:00:43 +0000

Thats weird. I primarily use gentoo-dev-sources but I also have the vanilla sources installed and running and I haven’t had any problems with nvidia drivers. Anyone here have the problems the are talking about?

[q]ls /usr/src
linux linux-2.6.9 linux-2.6.9-gentoo
[/q]

–Dweebs0r