NVidia: new BETA-driver [173.08]

[ejs76]

From:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthr ... a&t=111460

Release Highlights:

* Added support for the following new GPUs:
o Quadro FX 3600M
o GeForce 9800 GX2
o GeForce 9800 GTX
o GeForce 9600 GT
o GeForce 9500M GS
o GeForce 8400
o GeForce 8400 GS
* Added support for Quadro FX 5600/4600 SDI and Quadro G-Sync II.
* Fixed a problem that caused OpenGL to stop rendering to windows with origins at or beyond 4096 pixels (horizontally) on GeForce 8 and 9 GPUs.
* Fixed OpenGL rendering corruption with textures compressed using the DXT5 compression algorithm.
* Fixed a regression that caused invalid EDIDs to be detected for the internal display device on some notebooks.
* Improved hotkey switching and power management support on some GeForce 8 notebooks.
* Fixed a bug that prevented the console from being restored correctly in SLI mode on GeForce 6 and 7 GPUs.
* Fixed a problem that caused the synchronization signal polarity to always be positive for DVI devices on GeForce 8 and 9 GPUs.
* Fixed a problem that caused TV output on secondary TVs to be black and white on some GPUs.
* Restored compatibility with recent Linux 2.6 kernels.

Coppied and renamed the 171.06 ebuild (originally 169.12 I think ) and it compiled fine (against zen-2.6.25-rc8 that is).

I'm not gonna test it right now cause I need some sleep real bad

[darklegion]

UT2004 graphical corruption is fixed with this release, at least with my 8800gt.

[EasterParade]

I can't wait for the new driver to hit the portage tree because of this:

Fixed a bug that prevented the console from being restored correctly in SLI mode on GeForce 6 and 7 GPUs.

Since 169.12 I can't get back to console from X after CTRL-ALT-Backspace nor do I get a console after shutdown and reboot; Geforce 7600 gt 2x on sli mode with gentoo-sources 2.6.24* 64bit system.

[mathusael]

Hopefully, I got it working very quickly by setting a local overlay and copying the 169.12 ebuild.

The display with my 9600GT and the latest (keyworded) nv drivers was very unstable. (and not working at all with the 169 line)

[kmare]

Just wanted to report that these drivers really slow down 2D rendering (at least for me under kde). It's been acknowledged by a nvidia developer and hopefully we'll get it fixed in the next driver, but yeah.. the DXT5 bug is gone. For now i had to roll back to 171.06.
see here: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=111571

[dodo1122]

The high pitch noise is now gone from when my thinkpad ran on batteries (T61p, nvidia quadro fx 570). With these drivers it's nice and quiet


dodo

[NEOxAKIRA]

Iop, I'm french

I have a nvidia 9600GT too, I need ebuild 173.08 which works fine for arch amd64, please

I have error messages like : Cannot find $EPATCH_SOURCE!

Thanks

[ejs76]

Hallo! Ca va?

Sounds like you forgot to copy the "files" subdirectory from the "nvidia-drivers" directory in the portage tree to your overlay? This map contains the patch-files.

Salut

[PaulBredbury]

The high pitch noise is now gone

That's probably the nvidia driver waking up the CPU 60 times a second (refresh rate) and preventing the CPU from going into a deeper power-saving state

NEOxAKIRA, see ebuild guide.

[Dagger]

2D performance is really slow comparing to previous releases. I think I will wait a bit before I switch.

[NEOxAKIRA]

http://gpo.zugaina.org/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers?57389 here, there is an ebuild for nvidia-drivers-173.08-r10 from overlay sabayon.
I will try this tonight.

[alienvenom]

Please note, in order for this to work with kernel 2.6.26, vanilla-sources-2.6.26-git6 or greater is required. This will NOT work -rc1 which is currently in portage.

[kev009]

Works great here on gentoo-sources 2.6.25 amd64. No noticed 2d slowdown..

[EasterParade]

I've just installed nvidia-drivers-173.08. Its splash warns me in red letters about the beta status
but now I can get back onto the console with CTRL-ALT-Backspace again although I'm still missing the credits on shutdown. But may be the system shuts down so fast?
I can't confirm a slowdown in 2D performance here with KDE as WM.
Switching desktops seems to be a little slower but the driver IS beta.

All in all:

Parts of emerge --info

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emerge --info
Portage 2.1.4.4 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.25-gentoo-r3 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.25-gentoo-r3 x86_64 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.40GHz
Timestamp of tree: Sat, 17 May 2008 05:45:01 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p33
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r9
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0
sys-apps/openrc:     0.2.4-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.25-r3

Edit May 18:
The "credits" on shutdown are back again too. Even cpu load is less than before with the old driver!

[Eckos]

Allows me to link against zen-2.6.26-r2

[geburns]

odd... i still can't access my consoles with this driver.

i tried to go back to -100.14.19, but the compile fails.

is there anything special i need to do to get my console back?

-=g=-

[SeaTiger]

How can we test 2D performace? I feels my compiz-fusion effect are faster than before.