NVIDIA drivers 1.0-3123: ebuild broken?

Lasker · Guru Joined: 17 Jul 2002 Posts: 445

Just tried to update the new Nvidia drivers the same way I usually did: This time both nvidia-kernel and -glx stuck on download with zero-byte files in /usr/portage/distfiles, without any message.
A minor problem only: I've got them from Nvidia homepage and copied them into /usr/portage/distfiles. Emerge worked then, the drivers too.

Kevlar · n00b Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 2

I was able to download the files and install them, but when I restarted my X server it failed. I unmerged nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx and then emerged them again. Same problem. Unmerged them and went back to the previous ebuild which worked perfectly. I believe the error upon running startx was something to do with being unable to load NVdriver and with screens being found but not configured correctly.
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IvoryTiger · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Jun 2002 Posts: 132

I had to stop the emerge 4 times when it hung downloading the package. Once I got through the download everything worked fine and X came up fine.
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dbasinge · Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2002 4:40 am Post subject:

I had the same problem. The 1.0.3123 drivers started working for me when I turns power completely off to the computer and restarted

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The old driver must had something stuck in memory?

Go figure.

Mike

Lasker · Guru Joined: 17 Jul 2002 Posts: 445

Hmm, reading about all your problems (which didn't occur here) makes me wonder what could I've made different?
I recalled 'opengl-update nvidia', just for sure. Could this be the difference? There also was an update on 'opengl-update'...

Instinct · n00b Joined: 02 Aug 2002 Posts: 74

any noticable performance improvements with these?

zypher · Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2002 5:48 am Post subject:

I downloaded the tarballs manually from nvidia and emerged te new glx/kernel combo.
Performance is about the same with my GeForce2MX, in glxgears (~1370fps) and quake3 (~130fps playing demo four).
I think my card is on it's maximum for a while now, new drivers don't have any effect.
Any one with a better card to report on performance?
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crashman

I didn't run an exhaustive series of benchmarks, I just ran glxgears. :wink:

I got roughly 2900 fps both before and after upgrading. I did have to reboot after emerging, got an error in loading NVdriver until I did. After rebooting I had no problems.

Make sure the kernel that is pointed to by /usr/src/linux is configured and also the kernel you are running.

kang · Retired Dev Joined: 17 May 2002 Posts: 60

can't get the package, their ftp hangs each time... waiting for ibiblio to mirror

zypher · Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2002 6:33 pm Post subject:

Download from nvidia and put the tarballs in /usr/portage/distfiles, then emerge again

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pdouble · Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2002 5:52 am Post subject:

I had very strange behavior when upgrading too. I manually unloaded the NVdriver, reloaded and everything but OpenGL stuff worked fine. Before I went back to the old nvidia driver, I unmerge opengl-update 1.4, merged opengl-update 1.3 and ran "opengl-update nvidia". OpenGL then worked. Just to be sure, I upgraded to 1.4 again, and ran the command, and OpenGL software failed. I went back to 1.3, ran the command, and OpenGL works again. I looked through the opengl-update script and could not figure out what would cause the problem. The only different I could see was the --use-old option and there is a line in there:

n0n · Guru Joined: 13 Jun 2002 Posts: 355