New Nvidia 5336 Drivers -- 1/26/04

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The new driver is out. I hope this fixes some of the problems everyone has been having! :evil:

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taskara · Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 10:49 pm Post subject:

any news? how does it run?
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Drewgrange · Guru Joined: 29 Mar 2003 Posts: 483 Location: Ohio, US

I had to downgrade from the earlier release. Hopefully this one fixes it. I'll have to give it a go

eolson · Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 4:46 am Post subject:

Sweet, I was having problems with the black screen, Hope this works.

edit: Nope, still the same black screen. And you can't just overwrite the kernel module now with the older one. You have to uninstall it. :cry:

dkaplowitz · Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 8:26 am Post subject:

I wonder if it'll help with the gibberish in my dmesg output. I've seen a lot of other people having that problem as well. I'm guessing if it's not mentioned in the changelist, it's probably not gonna happen.
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EricC · n00b Joined: 05 Mar 2003 Posts: 41 Location: Sweden

Emerging the new driver gave me this:

neenee · Veteran Joined: 20 Jul 2003 Posts: 1786

you tried to emerge 5332, which is 64-bit.

this thread is about 5336, which for as far
as i know, does not have an ebuild yet, but
works fine if you unmerge your existing glx
+ kernel, and run the install package from
nvidia.com.

good luck.

EricC · n00b Joined: 05 Mar 2003 Posts: 41 Location: Sweden

*DOH*

I seem to have severe problems with numbers. =)

Thanks mate.

neenee · Veteran Joined: 20 Jul 2003 Posts: 1786

i did it too once, thinking i had found
some hardmasked ebuilds which did not
show up with an emerge -UDp world :wink:

TheCoop · Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2004 10:11 am Post subject:

i tried emerging 5336, but X complains about a glx/kernel mismatch, says the module is version 4480 (which doesnt exist...). Also the number seems to change each time I emerge nvidia-kernel
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taskara · Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2004 1:08 pm Post subject:

try un-emerging previous versions of both nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel

then try the new one..
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TheCoop · Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2004 6:48 pm Post subject:

same error
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timmfin · Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2004 7:18 pm Post subject:

I get the error two after ensuring all versions of nvidia-kernel and nvida-glx are removed.

Seymour · Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2004 10:16 pm Post subject:

Make sure to kill X and "rmmod nvidia" before restarting X.

TheCoop · Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2004 10:24 pm Post subject:

working now after the kernel -r1 update
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taikuri · Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2004 10:59 pm Post subject:

I'm having a *strange* problem related to the 5536 drivers (-r1).

I emerged those, shut down X, and rebooted. However. the new nvidia module could not be inserted during the bootup. I tried to modprobe it, but it gave me an error message (unknown symbol).

I rolled back to the old 5328 (and eventually, 4***) drivers, that were working just fine before - but now I cannot load them either (!?)

Dows anyone have a clue what might be going on?

EDIT: Ok, I got the older ones working again by manually removing nvidia.o/.ko in /lib/modules and re-emerging.

The 5336 drivers still don't work. Here are the kernel messages:

Vidar · Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 2:00 am Post subject:

Nothing > than the 4620's has a working frame buffer for me. I'm running a 1280x1024 bootsplash (slient mode) framebuffer and anything above 4620 displays low-res gibberish. Anyone have a fix for this?
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taikuri · Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 5:16 pm Post subject:

Norick · n00b Joined: 12 Sep 2003 Posts: 31 Location: Prague

I had same problem with gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.1-r1. I upgraded to /usr/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-dev-sources/gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.2_rc1.ebuild and everything is ok now.

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taskara · Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2004 3:21 am Post subject:

loads X fine, 3d works fine, but logging out of xfc4 and restarting xdm dies.

changing to other terminals shows the whole screen in box colours. I see mostly black, and a few grey squares, and some green ones on teh right (from [OK] message on boot services) alt+ctrl+del reboots and then X is fine, until I log out of an Xsession to log back in...

any ideas? other versions worked fine.

I have p4 3.2 system with fx5900, and xfree 4.0.3.1 (I think.. - whatever is latest - I emerged it yesterday), 2.6.2-mm sources

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t0mcat · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 10:52 pm Post subject: