johnnyv Posted July 1, 2004 Report Share Posted July 1, 2004 (edited) New drivers version 6106. First new drivers since 4496 that work with my tv-out. Edited July 1, 2004 by johnnyv Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted July 1, 2004 Report Share Posted July 1, 2004 link for the uber-lazy!!! Note, this adds support for the 4kstacks kernel option - finally!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero0w Posted July 1, 2004 Report Share Posted July 1, 2004 Many changes go into this new version, the best support to Kernel 2.6 it seems from the Gentoo bugzilla report: http://www.linuxhardware.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/01/0418244 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55714 Glad I chose nVidia. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nggalai Posted July 1, 2004 Report Share Posted July 1, 2004 The new control panel (nvidia-settings) rocks big time. Almost all options that are found in the windows driver sets, including - color correction - anti-aliasing settings - anisotropic filtering settings - thermal monitoring - digital vibrance and DFP modes (scaled, fixed etc.) AND it seems to be quite a bit faster than the last version to boot. Yay! 93, -Sascha.rb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkelve Posted July 1, 2004 Report Share Posted July 1, 2004 I wonder if SuSe will include them through YOU. (Woops, wrong forum ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linux_learner Posted July 1, 2004 Report Share Posted July 1, 2004 yes Darkelve, they do. ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/suppleme...installer-HOWTO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted July 1, 2004 Report Share Posted July 1, 2004 Konquror is as fast as firefox! WOW! It never occurred to me that I was having a video problem. :o The new panel is awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
null Posted July 2, 2004 Report Share Posted July 2, 2004 what am I supposed to say after I run the installer and it says something like " No precompiled kernel sources for something or other, Do you want to download them from nvidia.com...?" Do I say Yes or No? If you say No, then it wants to compile something I already have. Last time I did this (with the prior driver) on my FC2 machine, it trashed my install - nothing worked right anymore - screensavers or anything... This is on an FC2 machine, as mentioned. thanks ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted July 2, 2004 Report Share Posted July 2, 2004 You must allow it to compile the new driver. Let it look for a precompiled driver, (it won't find one) and then allow it to compile. If nvidia is already running, then it should be a slam-dunk. (I have shadows on all my cursors, now!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
null Posted July 2, 2004 Report Share Posted July 2, 2004 (edited) Do I install this thing the way I've always done it? d/l driver change inittab to initdefault 3 reboot run the installer: sh blah blah edit your xorg.conf file from "nv" to "nvidia" startx and lastly edit your etc/inittab back to initdefault 5 Or is there a new way of doing it? dang - I guess I should have read-up on whatever instructions nvidia has... but I've done it several times over the past year the above way And when you say " let it compile" do I say Yes for the installer to download whatever it needs to compile from nvidia or do I say No to let it compile something I already have ?? :huh: sorry to be dense, but this'll probably help a few others who might a similar questions... edit: well, when I re-read Ix's above post more slowly - he says it wont find a precompiled kernel source for whatever it needs, so I guess that means to say Yes to allow it to download what it needs? Edited July 2, 2004 by null Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted July 2, 2004 Report Share Posted July 2, 2004 the easiest way to tell it to compile is sh NVIDIAblablabla.sh -ane a=skip the 'accept license agreement' n=no precompiled modules e=expert sh NVIDIAblablabla.sh -A (I think, for more goodies) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
null Posted July 2, 2004 Report Share Posted July 2, 2004 yay ! Tux races downhill fast again ! Thanks Ix & bvc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted July 3, 2004 Report Share Posted July 3, 2004 null, a faster way without reboot: log off, so you get the logon prompt, then hit ctrl-alt-F1 non graphical mode. logon as root then do telinit 3 which should shut down your display manager (dm shutting down message) then cd into the dir where you have the nvidia script cd /path/to/nvidia/script and execute it: sh NVIDIA... if all went well the installer was successful, so then you can do: telinit 5 which should bring back the graphical login prompt. Look ma, no reboot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dustpuppy Posted July 10, 2004 Report Share Posted July 10, 2004 Agh!!! Wretched thing's borked Quake3. I get gkxgears at super-speed, and no start-up locks, but I can't shoot things Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted July 10, 2004 Report Share Posted July 10, 2004 I'm having problems with Neverwinter Nights - the graphics are liney and fuzzy - like an old tv or like it's syncing wrong. It could be a problem with the Gentoo ebuild though, but I'd appreciate it if anyone having the same problem could let me know. Other than that the new drivers rocks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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