Comments on: NVIDIA Display Driver 1.0-9629

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Wed, 22 Nov 2006 09:16:59 +0000

…i had to switch back to 8776, because 9629 couldnt load the glx module on my amd64 with 6600gt on nforce3.

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Sat, 18 Nov 2006 01:19:12 +0000

PITA, NV chose to use a 7x.xx version series that has known defect in render accel (not working stable). Makes a person wonder if it was done intentionally (seriously) to force h/w upgrade, because this ‘unsupported feature’ works %100 stable in previous 6x.xx driver (tested on both nv15 and even gfFX), on not just Linux but FreeBSD also!

@ NVidia: MOO right back at ya!

By: Trizt

Trizt — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 15:28:04 +0000

Got an e-mail from nVidia, it’s just a bug that causes the NV2x chipset to segfault and it will be fixed in the next driver which should be released before the end of this month.

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Sun, 12 Nov 2006 13:22:20 +0000

phoronix has reviews of SLI, and its been shown to give little to no performance improvement on Linux.

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Sat, 11 Nov 2006 13:56:18 +0000

I build unofficial Xandros drivers, and I need the Device ID’s for the 8800 GS and 8800 GT cards.. It seems the info isn’t in the 9742 documentation for some reason, but it is claimed they are supported with the driver…

Anyone have that info handy?

By: Trizt

Trizt — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 01:27:08 +0000

According the supported hardware list for 9626 the NV28 cards are at least there.

The legacy drivers isn’t that great, missing a bit features and bugfixes from the 8xxx line.

Had been better if there been a open source version of thise driver…

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Fri, 10 Nov 2006 19:15:47 +0000

quad sli – baby

where’s ur crossfire? hahahha

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Fri, 10 Nov 2006 14:01:38 +0000

on the nvnews nvidia linux forum it was mentioned by the developers, and moderators that NVIDIA has dropped support for NV2x cards after driver release 1.0-9626. look for continued support in the Legacy drivers.

By: Trizt

Trizt — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 10:04:07 +0000

Had the same issue, have a NV28 card in mine too, anyonbe tested the new beta to see if it’s still there or if they fixed it?

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Fri, 10 Nov 2006 08:58:43 +0000

On any nVidia card in the NV2x series, OpenGL causes segfaults with that driver. There’s no known workaround. 9626 works, though.

I have a machine with a NV28 based card and only when I downgraded did it work correctly again. I hope it’ll be fixed soon…

Check it you might be affected via lspci.