KEuphoria (GL) Screensaver

[AA]

I downloaded the new nVidia Drivers from their site.

I installed them and everything seemed to be going well until....

 

I then installed the KEuphoria (GL) Screensaver, because it looks very very pretty.

It now runs at like 1 frame per 2 seconds which does not make it look so pretty anymore.

Oh yes, and this is just after re-doing my WHOLE system. IE, brand new install of freeking everything.

 

So now my question is this: Is it the drivers or is it something else....?

 

Specs: GeForce4 mx440, Athlon XP1600+,256 DDR, MDK 9.0

 

Your help and comment with this regard will not go unNoticed...

 

Many thanx...

AA

[DragonMage]

I am having some problems with the newest nvidia driver also. Version 4.191 seems to make my GL screensavers very blocky instead of smooth.. Try downgrading to version 3.123 and see if it solve your problem.

[AA]

The new drivers seem to be much better though for games and stuff....

 

Did you switch back to the older ones... are the older drivers working better for you...!!

[DragonMage]

Yupper, the older one seems more stable for me. Since I don't play games that much, I prefer the stability of the old driver.

[AA]

To remove the old drivers can i simply install the old ones the same way as i installed the new ones.... ie, do i 1st have to remove the newer drivers first before i can install the old ones...?

 

if so... what command would i use to remove the old ones... i used the tar.gz 's to install my drivers.....??

[DragonMage]

Hmm.. not sure since I never installed the tarball version.. check the readme, maybe you can just overinstall it with the older driver.

[paul]

remove the new drivers first

 

cd /path/to/new_driver_src/

as root

make uninstall

should remove them then reinstall the 3.123 drivers

[afrosheen]

Just a tip: if you do all your installing of nvidia drivers via the rpms, removing the old ones is part of the task if you install the new ones with the command rpm -Uvh blabla.rpm. It's in the nvidia script to remove, move or rename any conflicting or old libs it finds. I suspect this is part of your problem.

[AA]

Well, it is not possible to just install the old tarballs over the new ones tried that... but the make uninstall does work. I remember doing that a while ago when i first started fiddling with the nVidia drivers...

 

Just one more question though... does any body know off hand where they are installed to...? Or where i should run the "make uninstall" command from to be more precise...???

[DragonMage]

If it's installed the same way as RPM (no reason to be different) Here is a listing.

[dmage@spitfire dmage]$ rpm -ql NVIDIA_kernel

/lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/video/NVdriver

[dmage@spitfire dmage]$ rpm -ql NVIDIA_GLX

/usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA.a

/usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA.so.1.0.3123

/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o

/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so.1.0.3123

/usr/lib/libGL.so.1.0.3123

/usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1.0.3123

/usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0

/usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/NVIDIA_Changelog

/usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README

/usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README.DE

/usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/XF86Config.sample

/usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/include

/usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/include/GL

/usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/include/GL/gl.h

/usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/include/GL/glx.h

/usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/include/GL/glxtokens.h

/usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/license.txt

 

Hope it helps.