nVidia Drivers 6106

isnan · n00b Joined: 22 Jun 2004 Posts: 15

New drivers out! They have finally solved the 4K stack problem. Anyone tested them yet?

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-6106.html

k1ll1nt1m3 · Apprentice Joined: 02 Jun 2004 Posts: 196

I cant seem to get it to load glx. But other than that, it installed fine with 4k.

Anyone else have a glx problem with it?

k1ll1nt1m3 · Apprentice Joined: 02 Jun 2004 Posts: 196

Got it... Had to remove the old nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel. I had to nvidia-installer --unistall the 6106 to remove its kernel too.

LeTene · Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 9:06 am Post subject:

ebuild overlays available in Bugzilla:

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55714
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IntergalacticWalrus · Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 6:27 pm Post subject:

Speaking of 4K stacks, what are they for anyway? What are the advantages over the old default (8K)? I've always wondered, but never asked.

Anyway I'm going to try the new drivers now. Yay. Nice to see they finally included the config utility that was in that old leaked beta.

floam · Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 6:46 pm Post subject:

This thread is a duplicate.

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=192634
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IntergalacticWalrus · Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 6:54 pm Post subject:

Technically, no, as this one was started a few hours before that other one. It's that other one that's a dup.

tatesworld · n00b Joined: 25 Oct 2003 Posts: 67

I had problems with glx with it

got this from duplicate forum!

ldconfig
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib32
ldconfig
opengl-update nvidia
CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE, log back in and hey presto it now works

Flammie · Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 7:10 pm Post subject:

firephoto · Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 8:41 pm Post subject:

Installed ok with ebuild from the bug report, normal quirks, rebuilt kernel with 4k stacks, KDE started fine. Started armyops and things looked good..... froze up when I clicked refresh but it's done that before. Killed it and ran it again from a konsole, refreshed fine, went to sandstorm fine, selected team fine, selected weapon fine, hit f2 and went to the northern view area.... screen starts to "jiggle", f2 back and "jiggle" stops. Game starts.... major jiggle, but the FPS are better than the old driver!

lol Anyway, that's playing in a 1024x768 window. Alt enter to fullscreen and jiggle is gone but then I'm stuck their because apparently KDE remebers the window/screen/fullscreen setup but wouldn't return it to the window. lol I have some null options in my xorg.conf because I have dual displays and saw that helpful tip by someone here I belive.

Overall it works good, something strange with the windowed mode though but that could be KDE but I'm not sure, never spit out any errors except for when I tried to alt-enter back to a window. Performance is good, much better than before.

k1ll1nt1m3 · Apprentice Joined: 02 Jun 2004 Posts: 196

Humm... I had it working fine with kde-3.2.2, then I installed kde-3.2.3. Now I cant get glx to work. Ive reinstalled the nvidia driver three times with no luck.

I tried opengl-update xfree (just for fun). It switched fine. I couldnt get it to switch back to nvidia. It says there are five opengl to choose from but mine was stuck in xfree. Reinstalled again, and still no glx.

I am going back to kde-3.2.2 to see if can get glx back. Anyone else having these problems? Or know a way around them?

This is all I get with opengl-update nvidia...

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k1ll1nt1m3 · Apprentice Joined: 02 Jun 2004 Posts: 196

Is there one newer than 1.7.2? I cant get the opengl web page to open and thats all thats in my portage.

markfl · Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 9:38 pm Post subject:

is the ebuild in portage yet?

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firephoto · Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 9:44 pm Post subject:

There's an overlay here:
http://dev.gentoo.org/~cyfred/overlay/nvidia-overlay-20040702.tar.bz2

Dr Gonzo · Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 12:09 am Post subject:

It appears that the ebuild from the overlay is broken for nvidia-settings. This is a minor problem for me, really, so I can wait until portage is updated with the official ~x86 ebuilds.

Anybody else experience this?
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eNTi · Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 3:25 pm Post subject:

getting access violation with 2.6.7-mm4 (4k stacks) and warcraft 3 (winex/cedega).
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cyfred · Retired Dev Joined: 23 Aug 2002 Posts: 596

There in portage now.

bennettp · Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 5:01 pm Post subject:

I had a problem getting neverball-1.3.1 to compile, I switched to opengl-update xorg-x11, and it compiles fine. I'll switch to nvidia back afterwards, and hopefully it will work!

The errors were:

warning: implicit declaration of function "glActiveTexture"
warning: implicit declaration of function "glBlahBlahBlah"

I'm not so sure about the second one.

EDIT: It worked!

That game just keeps getting better!

() · l33t Joined: 25 Nov 2002 Posts: 610

Hmm .. Neverball segfaults here (along with xine btw).
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fourwood · Apprentice Joined: 17 May 2003 Posts: 197

Since installing the new drivers, UT2k4 won't run. Here's the UT2004.log.

pvk · n00b Joined: 10 Feb 2004 Posts: 24 Location: Germany

5200FX approx. 1.5 times slower than nvidia-1.0.5336
tested with Americas Army

bennettp · Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2004 5:01 am Post subject:

John5788 · Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2004 5:51 am Post subject:

drivers work perfectly fine for me
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