NVidia 53.41 HowTo

PrakashP · Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 12:05 pm Post subject: NVidia 53.41 HowTo

If you haven't noticed: At
http://www.pny.com/support/drivers/?prod=quadro
you can get a newer nvidia binary driver which seems to be more stable under 2.6.x kernel.

Here is a short how-to make your own ebuilds for it (pretty straight-forward):

Unzip above archive and copy the "bla.run.txt" file to your distfiles folder and rename to "bla.run".
copy media-video/nvidia* to your local portage overlay
copy the 5336-r1 ebuilds over to 5341 (you know what I mean...)
in the nvidia-kernel case:
get into the files subdir and copy over the 1.0.5336 dir to 1.0.5341, get into this subdir and rename that patch.

That should be it. Then you can cleanly emerge both nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx when you are on ~x86.

Will test whether the driver is also more stable then older one, if framebuffer is activated...ususually I got the badness in bla message after some time...

BTW, something else I seem to have found out - must test further whether I found the bugger:

If you have a nforce2 mobo, you could probably lower your CPU temp, by NOT using nvidia agp, but agpgart and CPU Disconnect on. In case of APIC (not ACPI, but ACPI does no harm), deactivate the nforce2 quirk (or use athtool to put disconnect back on), if the quirk is included in the kernel, like in the 2.6.5_rc2-love3 kernel I use, and use Ross' tack patches or C1halt (less cool than the tack patch) patches to get APIC stable again. (If you don't use APIC, it is stable an cool.)

I know have idle temps of about 45°C (or downto 42°C) while typing this post with Athlon XP @ 2.2GHz. Whith "broken" C1 halt, idle temp is around 49-52°C...

NumaSan · Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 8:50 pm Post subject:

Question is how relevant it is, since PNY states it's "QuadroFX 3000G only"
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PrakashP · Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 9:05 pm Post subject:

floam · Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 10:38 pm Post subject:

I probably should have posted this to the forums earlier, but I made an ebuild a couple days ago. It'll handle downloading the zip and stuff. http://floam.ascorbic.com/gentoo/nvidia-5341.tar.bz2
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PrakashP · Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 9:26 am Post subject:

BTW, this driver seems really to be more stable. I activated framebuffer and bootsplash and so far no lock-up yet.

IntergalacticWalrus · Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 1:21 am Post subject:

PrakashP · Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 7:02 am Post subject:

vesa, one shouldn't use riva.

PrakashP · Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 11:16 am Post subject:

minion.de now has a patch for 53.41 for use with kernels with regparm enabled. I haven't tested it though.

Insanity5902 · Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 8:18 pm Post subject:

Insanity5902 · Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 9:13 pm Post subject:

Well it is slow at work so I have been playing with X over ssh

, not the prettiest of ways to do it but it does give me a log.

I was doing cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status , that was giving me disabled. I even tried to run startx and get in another ssh terminal and try it there, and it still said disabled.

I was going through the xf86 logs and noticed it was trying to load nvagp (I had nvagp "1" in my config) and it woudl fail. I switch it to "2" and it seems to of loaded just fine. So apperently my GeForceFX5700, Nforce2 chipst, NvAGP and the driver 53.41 don't like each other.

But everything else seemed to work okay. I will compare it with my old scores of glxgears when I get home.

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IntergalacticWalrus · Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 12:15 am Post subject:

Insanity5902 · Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 1:34 am Post subject:

not only do you have to enable it in the BIOS but you hve to uncomment a line in /etc/modules.d/nvidia

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NumaSan · Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 4:03 pm Post subject:

PrakashP · Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 4:14 pm Post subject:

Still no lock-up. Before I got a ock-up with vesa-framebuffer enabled within a few hours. So I am happy.

Insanity5902 · Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 6:34 pm Post subject:

I played with it a lot last night and testing it out using glx gears.

In full screen (1280x768x24) w/ 5341 and w/o fast write I got about 110 fps
In full screen (1280x768x24) w/ 5341 and w/ fast write I got about 110 fps

I need to run it with 16 bit color b/c that is what I testing glxgeers with 5336-r1, I will do that tonight, but the results for the 16 bit color was ...

In full screen (1280x768x16) w/ 5336-r1 and w/o fast write I got about 170 fps

This is all with a FX5200. But one problem I was having is my screen would flash every so often like it was turning off. Since I updated to 5341 and enabled fast writes, no flashes. Last night I was on my comptuer from about 6:30-10:30 and it didn't flash once. That is very good b/c that was beginning to get very very annoying.

So even if performance dropped. I am still keeping the drivers just b/c of that stability issue I have with my dell monitor.
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PrakashP · Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 7:24 pm Post subject:

Well, just as if I asked for it: I got the infamous badness in pci-search bla error "locking up" my system. At least this driver version seems to be much better. So I disabled frambuffer again.

Insanity5902 · Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 8:26 pm Post subject:

have you tried adding pci=noacpi in your grub.conf

If you are lilo then I don't know what the command is. From what I understood this is suppose to help with some lockups?!?
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PrakashP · Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 10:05 pm Post subject:

Well, I could try if disabling ACPI helps.

azlan · Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2004 2:04 am Post subject:

I tried this just for the heck of it but I still have a problem that started last night :

X was telling me that the version # of the nvidia module I was loading is 4088 (I think) and then telling me it was supposed to be 5XXX, (the correct #).

Of course I reinstalled the nvidia-kernel, same, same. Then tried this kernel module, same, same.

Of course I even tried unloading and reloading the module by hand with, --force-modversion, and still I get the error.

I am now using nv. any Ideas????
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Insanity5902 · Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2004 3:33 am Post subject:

make sure you do both nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx

What I do when I am upgrading my nvidia drivers. I will do a rmmod nvidia then a emerge -C nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx, then I will emerge the version I want.

I haven't had any problems doing it this way.
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Moloch · Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2004 8:40 am Post subject:

Lately I've had to delete /lib/modules/<current kernel>/video/* when installing the nvidia driver over the same kernel.

Redeeman · l33t Joined: 25 Sep 2003 Posts: 958 Location: Portugal

can anyone tell me if this is worth it...

and one huge question i have got: how come nvidia.com doesent list the driver?

thanks!

Insanity5902 · Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2004 10:35 pm Post subject:

don't know why nvidia doesn't list the driver.

But I think it is a bit slower but a lot more stable.

My dell monitor used to flash, since I have had 5341 in it hasn't flashed once. So unless you are a intense gamer, I would say it is worth it
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floam · Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2004 11:46 pm Post subject:

Insanity5902 · Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 3:44 am Post subject:

okay I guess I bragged too much about my monitor not flashing b/c I havn't been home 30 minutes and has already flashed about 5 times.

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