NVIDIA Linux Display Drivers 1.0-8774
August 24th, 2006 by TimeDoctorA Slovakian man with a house and a goat let us know he hates Debian users and about the latest NVIDIA Linux driver release, version 1.0-8774 (x86 README / x86-64 README). This is the release we discussed in our podcast. Some highlights:
- Added support for X.Org 7.1.
- Added support for XVideo with the Composite X extension when using X.Org 7.1.
- Improved interaction with newer Linux kernels.
August 24th, 2006 at 10:14 pm
nvidia : the way it’s meant to be paid.
August 24th, 2006 at 11:36 pm
get with the games nvidia, you’re falling behind
August 25th, 2006 at 1:48 am
wtf?!
August 25th, 2006 at 2:59 am
I have a Dell 30″ monitor and an x1900 xtx on an AMD64 system. I still have no freaking Xv support. Also, I’m getting _less_ than 60fps in 2d mode. And vsync doesn’t work.
Seriously, this is pathetic. I award mild props to NVIDIA for not sucking as badly as ATI does right now.
wtf, I’d work for ATI free if it meant I could have working video drivers.
August 25th, 2006 at 4:55 am
but it was quite long ago since i installed nvidia’s until 3 days ago ….
pardon me, but at least ati is capable of setting up a sensible xorg.conf, nvidia-xconfig even tried to tell me i had a radeon instead of configuring it for the 5600fx which was installed
i had to rewrite the xorg.conf in many areas, it even changed the localisation from de to us! wtf?
and having nvidia-settings as a redundant package in ubuntu which collides with the nvidia-glx package …. thx, ati is easier to install – but there the support for up to date hardware sucks badly ….
plz, someone bring us a generic cpu optimised hardware board for gfx display, where we can upload mesa to and which should give us decent performance quickly plz …. and with low power consumption and size of course too … and quick
August 25th, 2006 at 5:45 am
If you have a problem with nvidia-xconfig and want it fixed, report it via the appropriate channels instead of complaining about it in a random comments thread. As to Ubuntu’s packages, you ought to take t hat up with the package maintainer.
August 25th, 2006 at 11:24 am
thats a good hint, although i don’t believe that i would be first with nvidia setup on ubuntu …
August 25th, 2006 at 12:50 pm
that’s what you guys or ladies sound like. Let me be the first to apologize for such immaturity to anyone from nvidia, ati, or ID software. I remember how it use to be and am very thankful for everything these companies have done and continue to do.
August 25th, 2006 at 2:31 pm
i am not unthankful for getting at least some 3d performance, i just note that both are neither perfect or complete and that i would love it to be better when i am doing my next hardware upgrade …
actually in the beginning of the 3d times with glide – linux had full support from nearly day one .. the sdk was released early and free of charge, although not open source
ok, configuration scripts where not that savvy then, but at least support was 100%, and not half assed as today
August 25th, 2006 at 11:06 pm
Last I looked packed ports were unofficial and not done by Nvidia, moan to the package maintainer if you have problems with debs and the like
August 26th, 2006 at 4:54 am
i don’t believe that the closed source config tool from nvidia is a thing which is changed by a package maintainer of whatever distribution …. and i can’t see reasons why a gfx driver config tool should change something like localisations or other settings except the device section …
anyway it wasn’t my intention to flame around, although i miss that guy from the early ati driver discussion times …. ;)
i’ll promise i look deeper into and will sent a bug report where i believe it is appropriate – but i really don’t believe that this is only an ubuntu problem
please increase my knowledge about that, as it would improve any bug report about that
and surely, i could have made a lot of mistakes on my own trying to install it, there isn’t really lot of up to date information about dapper and propr. drivers and there proper installation,
often i try do install without package management tools, but this time i had done the “normal” way, as it is easier for that guy i had installed it for to keep it uptodate then
nevertheless after sorting out existing packages, its not difficult to install the driver – i may should have tried to find another way to configure the xserver, but hadn’t noticed any sane way to change the driver section except the nvidia-xconfig tool – which probably is where i am totally wrong
so enlighten me or flame me and have a nice weekend
August 27th, 2006 at 5:39 am
The various installation/configuration tools are GPL’d, actually, and their source files are available for everyone who wants them:
ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/nvidia-installer
ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/nvidia-settings
ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/nvidia-xconfig
So if you were so inclined, you could help fix the bugs in these utilities. I don’t think anybody implied it was your or the package maintainers’ job to do this, but they’re the people to talk to about Ubuntu/Debian/… specific packaging issues.
AFAIK, nvidia-xconfig generates a new configuration file from scratch and hasn’t been around for very long, so problems such as those you describe presumably are just bugs and not part of some theme to bereave users of their localization settings.
August 28th, 2006 at 10:55 pm
For the record, I’ve reported a bug on the nvidia-glx and nvidia-settings packages being redundant in Ubuntu. The problem is that the nvidia-glx-legacy package does not have the nvidia-settings.