nVidia driver 169.04, Beta

[plun]

32bit
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_...a32_169.04.html (http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_169.04.html)
64bit
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_...d64_169.04.html (http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_169.04.html)

Works great for me on a 7600GS card.

http://www.albertomilone.com/latest...dsf_feisty.html (http://www.albertomilone.com/latest_nvidia_udsf_feisty.html)
Method 2

Source Phoronix
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...m=918&num=1 (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=918&num=1)

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[Deciare]

Hoho, they changed the versioning scheme again. That's how you know they mean business. ;)

[plun]

Hoho, they changed the versioning scheme again. That's how you know they mean business. ;)

169..... Linux plays in the same division as Windows...;)

Nevertheless what I have seen in nVidias forum and other places is
that this driver is really good.

I can see with glxgears, Compiz benchmark and "look and feel" that
this one really works...

:)

[delfick]

/me looks at release highlights

Fixed a problem with Compiz after VT-switching.

that sounds promising :D

EDIT : WOAH !!!!!!! VT-switching just works now :D, that's brilliant
now I can play gtasa in tty1 and have whatever else in tty7 :D :D :D
(/me very happy now, lol)

edit 2 : I have antisotropic filtering on 16X, antialiasing setting on 4x bilinear, gaussian blur at full strength and radius, atlantis-0.6 with default settings and rotating the cube or wobbling some windows (or both :D) doesn't lag or become choppy or anything :D, this is brilliant :D
(on an Nvidia Geforce 6600GT 256Mb, PCIE)

does anyone know if ubuntu will put it in their repos ??

[enigma_0Z]

Works better on the 8400 GS card. But not entirely perfect--there's still some lag if the GPU has been idle for a while.

But it is better. And that's good.

[fldc]

I seem to get some graphic distortions in KDE when using this beta driver though.

[Deciare]

A post from the nvnews forum suggests that adding
Option "UseCompositeWrapper" "True"
to the Device section of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file may fix visual artefacts that you weren't seeing with earlier driver versions.

[Eck]

How are you guys getting Compiz to load with this driver? I replied to another poster in the package section under the OpenSUSE packages. He and I couldn't get Compiz running. He's using the GIT and I'm using the standard X11:/XGL Compiz Fusion released version.

All I did to get it back was uninstall the 169.04 and reinstall the 100.14.23 beta I was using previously. By the way, the 100.14.23 had the VT Compiz fix as well.

It's nice that the folks at nvnews.net are raving about how much improved the driver is but no one so far has complained that Compiz Fusion won't load. I got fine 3D reports from glxinfo and glxgears, but with Compiz running absolutely no Compiz functions, the cube, window decorations, window management, nothing would work. Substituting Metacity in Gnome or Kwin in KDE of course returned things to normal, but I want Compiz Fusion!

The xorg.conf didn't look any differently from the previous working version.

So, did it just work for you guys? Did you do anything differently? All I do after SaX2 sets up the NVidia driver is run nvidia-xconfig --composite so NVidia adds glx and the composite enable and removes the DRI section that SaX2 includes erroneously for NVidia.

[sgt-d]

other people are reporting problems too.
http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6502#post18395

same for me.

[Eck]

Yep, that post about Compiz has the same error messages I get too. Mine are in CyberOrg's OpenSUSE thread.

I guess a fix will be figured out shortly. I hope so! It will be nice to have that XV Video fix they have in this one. The VT fix I already had from 100.14.23 so that's nice that it's carried over, but there is a missing piece here. Some people are enjoying using Compiz Fusion with this new driver and some get those errors so it can't start at all.

[plun]

Well... it is a "dirty driver" and must be handled as is.

Ubuntu manual install, Method 2 .

http://www.albertomilone.com/latest_nvidia_udsf_feisty.html

I am running kernel 2.6.24-RC3 and must use this command to install/build it.

sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-169.04-pkg1.run -n -s --x-prefix=/usr/lib/xorg/ --kernel-source-path=/usr/src/linux-2.6.23
:)

[Deciare]

Yep, that post about Compiz has the same error messages I get too. Mine are in CyberOrg's OpenSUSE thread.
Can you please be more specific about which error message you were receiving? Is it this one?
compiz: Trying '/usr/$LIB/libIndirectGL.so.1'
ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/$LIB/libIndirectGL.so.1' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
compiz (core) - Fatal: No GLXFBConfig for default depth, this isn't going to work.
compiz (core) - Error: Failed to manage screen: 0
compiz (core) - Fatal: No manageable screens found on display :0.0
If so, try adding --no-libgl-fallback to your Compiz command line.

[Eck]

I do have the Trying 'usr/$LIB/libIndirectGL.so.1' line but I do not have the following ERROR line.

The last 3 lines do appear, just like the other fellow, starting with No GLX FB Config.

So I think that the libIndirect succeeds, but the problem is the FB Config of GLX. Absolutely no problems with either 100.14.19 or 100.14.23 drivers.

The moderator at nvnews requested an nvidia-settings --glxinfo report so if he still needs that at around 11PM when I get back I'll reinstall 169.04 and get that to him. And I'll try the alternative startup with no indirect fallback, however like I said I think the default method for that is not the problem. I am not getting a message that it failed there.

[scotsmist]

Sorry to bump an old thread, I had to roll back to the stable version, I just couldn't get the beta nvidia driver working on opensuse 10.3 with a 8600 GT card. Just wanted to be included in case anyone is counting numbers :)

[Eck]

As long as it's bumped, I've been breezing along with the 169.04 and including that --no-libgl-fallback in the /usr/bin/compiz-manager script where it has the compiz startup options. This, with a 6600GT. It is possible that my including a home: unofficial xorg74 repo, which is just xorg 7.3 with xserver version 1.4 and point fixes to compiz core stuff helped. Again, this is OpenSUSE 10.3 but upgraded like crazy with Build Service repo's.

All the Compiz Fusion stuff works great, even with that big jump from the stable release to the GIT packages that CyberOrg's repo did this week. It was nice to see the 3D Window plugin again, though I turned it off after a screensaver started hesitating. Other than that it was working fine and hadn't effected anything else. But with the 3D Window plugin turned off, there was no more hesitation in the screensaver so I'm guessing that was the problem.

I'm hoping NVidia gets an official release out soon so distro's who only package official versions can receive the many composite related fixes, among other things, that are in 169.04. They'll have to do something about that needing --no-libgl-fallback though, unless NVidia considers that an improvement? In that case all the distro's will need to adjust their startup methods for compiz to include that. It would be crazy to expect users to edit configuration files manually. That's the whole point of the distro's setting it all up so it works right away just by installing and activating it. As soon as their NVidia repo brings in the newer driver, as far as the user will know it will have broken Compiz, when actually it will have improved performance with Compiz and fixed driver related bugs. But if it won't turn on, the user won't be thinking that!

[enigma_0Z]

TV Out's broken on the 169.04 w/ my 8400 GS... Here's hoping the next one isn't.