NVIDIA drivers 1.0-3123: ebuild broken?

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Lasker · Post by **Lasker** » Thu Sep 12, 2002 1:33 am

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 · Post by **Kevlar** » Thu Sep 12, 2002 3:24 am

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.

IvoryTiger · Post by **IvoryTiger** » Thu Sep 12, 2002 4:27 am

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.

dbasinge · Post by **dbasinge** » Thu Sep 12, 2002 4:40 am

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 · Post by **Lasker** » Thu Sep 12, 2002 4:59 am

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 · Post by **Instinct** » Thu Sep 12, 2002 5:26 am

any noticable performance improvements with these?

zypher · Post by **zypher** » Thu Sep 12, 2002 5:48 am

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?

crashman · Post by **crashman** » Thu Sep 12, 2002 11:56 am

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

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 · Post by **kang** » Thu Sep 12, 2002 12:11 pm

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

zypher · Post by **zypher** » Thu Sep 12, 2002 6:33 pm

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

pdouble · Post by **pdouble** » Fri Sep 13, 2002 5:52 am

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:

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GL_IMPLEM="$1"

Now I've had trouble using

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CXXFLAGS="$CFLAGS"

and had to use

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CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"

but I don't think this would apply to $1 since it is a single character. It may however, so I will probably test it. Getting late, so I'm happy my OpenGL screen saver works again...

n0n · Post by **n0n** » Fri Sep 13, 2002 1:54 pm

Kevlar wrote: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.

I had basically the same problem, here's what worked for me. Quit out of X, do an "rmmod NVdriver" (and make sure it doesn't show up in lsmod anymore), then UNMERGE your previous versions completely (make sure there's no nVidia stuff anywhere), and then merge in the new versions. Worked for me, anyway. Oh, and I did an "opengl-update nvidia" too, but I don't know if that was necessary or not. No computer restart required. Emerging without doing that unmerge didn't work for me . . .

NVIDIA drivers 1.0-3123: ebuild broken?

NVIDIA drivers 1.0-3123: ebuild broken?

Ebuild worked fine for me (with caveat)...

No noticable performance increase with GeForce 3 Ti500