Guest ndeb Posted March 31, 2003 Report Share Posted March 31, 2003 http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=linux_di...y_ia32_1.0-4349 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadHattr Posted March 31, 2003 Report Share Posted March 31, 2003 i have just installed them i havent noticed too much of a improvment over the last one but there is a nice little installer witch should be nice for people who dont know how to edit there XF86Config and such. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOlson Posted March 31, 2003 Report Share Posted March 31, 2003 I have updated my tutorial. It now includes screenshots and stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Relic2K Posted April 1, 2003 Report Share Posted April 1, 2003 Yeah it looks like they really made life easier for the end user. Cewl, will be doing the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyv Posted April 1, 2003 Report Share Posted April 1, 2003 ok so it compiles the driver but will it use arch specific optimisations athlon etc or will it just do i586 or worse i386? I had recompilied my nvidia 4191 src.rpm's to athlon, i would like to do the same with future drivers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ndeb Posted April 1, 2003 Report Share Posted April 1, 2003 If u run ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4349.run --extract-only it will extract the archive. Then do cd NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4349/usr/src/nv/ and you will be in a directory where all precompiled binaries are present. Many of them optimized for various achitechtures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted April 1, 2003 Report Share Posted April 1, 2003 I just installed it using the installer and I notice a slight improvement in frame rates, but not much. Still have the annoying problem in harddrake of my video card showing up as Generic VGA and it blanking the screen until I hit Ctrl-Alt-F2 and back to Ctrl-Alt-F7, but otherwise okie dokie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyv Posted April 1, 2003 Report Share Posted April 1, 2003 If u run ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4349.run --extract-only it will extract the archive. Then do cd NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4349/usr/src/nv/ and you will be in a directory where all precompiled binaries are present. Many of them optimized for various achitechtures. cool thanks for the tip 8) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ndeb Posted April 1, 2003 Report Share Posted April 1, 2003 Very important: How to uninstall ? ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4349.run --uninstall Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOlson Posted April 1, 2003 Report Share Posted April 1, 2003 More imporant is upgrading to the next version of the drivers... nvidia-installer --update --update Connect to the NVIDIA ftp server 'ftp://download.nvidia.com' and determine the latest available driver version. If there is a more recent driver available, automatically download and install it. Any other options given on the commandline will be passed on to the downloaded driver package when installing it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ndeb Posted April 1, 2003 Report Share Posted April 1, 2003 More imporant is upgrading to the next version of the drivers... nvidia-installer --update I would always prefer uninstalling and then doing a clean install. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ndeb Posted April 1, 2003 Report Share Posted April 1, 2003 I installed the new drivers on LM9.1. Everything worked fine for about 2.5 hours and then suddenly my display got totally trashed with fine green lines. Switching to A virtual console failed. Ctrl-alt-backspace failed. Only way out was ctrl-alt-delete to reboot the machine. As usual, nvidia's "Linux advantage" ( http://www.nvidia.com/docs/lo/2867/SUPP/NV...x_Advantage.pdf ) has turned out to mean more instability. And all I have from my /var/log/XFree86.0.log.old is *** If unresolved symbols were reported above, they might not *** be the reason for the server aborting. Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the full server output, not just the last messages. This can be found in the log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log". Please report problems to xfree86@xfree86.org. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOlson Posted April 1, 2003 Report Share Posted April 1, 2003 More imporant is upgrading to the next version of the drivers... nvidia-installer --update I would always prefer uninstalling and then doing a clean install. What for? It will do that automatically anyhow... There's not much point to do that... That's defeating the whole purpose of their new utility.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JaseP Posted April 1, 2003 Report Share Posted April 1, 2003 I tried updating last night,... crash... I thought maybe that the new utility would be better at running on my system, but it was a small nigthmare getting back to a workable x-server... I think this is a big mistake on nVidia's part. They should maybe consider doing this, but they should not eliminate the RPMs and SRPMs for those that need to have more controll over the process. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyv Posted April 1, 2003 Report Share Posted April 1, 2003 well my glxgears seems about the same with the new drivers, but quake3 urban terror seems noticebly lower frame rate (50-70 fps compared to 90+ at 1152 * 864 24bit) and is quite jerky. Tactical ops seems the same as it was which was fine except i had crash to the desktop after about an hours play. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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