With the delays in F9 and X, I was wondering if there was anything new on updated nVidia drivers. I frankly got lost trying to peruse nvnews.net and with my job load lately, haven't had much time anyway.
Can anyone in the know give an update? I'm hopeful we'll see something shortly after F9 releases in a few days...
Cheers,
Chris
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On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 08:00 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
With the delays in F9 and X, I was wondering if there was anything new on updated nVidia drivers. I frankly got lost trying to peruse nvnews.net and with my job load lately, haven't had much time anyway.
Can anyone in the know give an update? I'm hopeful we'll see something shortly after F9 releases in a few days...
Cheers,
Chris
nVidia has yet to release new drivers and the latest beta drivers (173.08) are incompatible with F9.
- Gilboa
Any guess on how long after F9 come out that they will appear?
Arch
-----Original Message----- From: fedora-test-list-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:fedora-test-list-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Gilboa Davara Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 11:23 AM To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases Subject: Re: Anything New on nVidia?
On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 08:00 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
With the delays in F9 and X, I was wondering if there was anything new on updated nVidia drivers. I frankly got lost trying to peruse nvnews.net and with my job load lately, haven't had much time anyway.
Can anyone in the know give an update? I'm hopeful we'll see something shortly after F9 releases in a few days...
Cheers,
Chris
nVidia has yet to release new drivers and the latest beta drivers (173.08) are incompatible with F9.
- Gilboa
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On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 16:18 -0400, Arch Willingham wrote:
Any guess on how long after F9 come out that they will appear?
Arch
Given nVidia's past behavior, I'd venture and guess that a new driver will be released shortly after the X.org R7.4 release. (Which hopefully be before July.)
However, given that fact that nVidia has released a number of new graphics card (9500/9600/9800) - that require the beta driver (173.08, using it here on my 9800GTX, has horrible 2D performance), a new beta driver can be expected any day now. (Hopefully with preliminary r7.4 support.)
- Gilboa
2008/5/10 Gilboa Davara gilboad@gmail.com:
On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 16:18 -0400, Arch Willingham wrote:
Any guess on how long after F9 come out that they will appear?
Arch
Given nVidia's past behavior, I'd venture and guess that a new driver will be released shortly after the X.org R7.4 release. (Which hopefully be before July.)
However, given that fact that nVidia has released a number of new graphics card (9500/9600/9800) - that require the beta driver (173.08, using it here on my 9800GTX, has horrible 2D performance), a new beta driver can be expected any day now. (Hopefully with preliminary r7.4 support.)
I did a little bit of research and it turns out the 183.08 driver has experimental support for the X version we ship in F9.
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=111460
- David
On Saturday 10 May 2008 10:08:19 am David Nielsen wrote:
2008/5/10 Gilboa Davara gilboad@gmail.com:
On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 16:18 -0400, Arch Willingham wrote:
Any guess on how long after F9 come out that they will appear?
Arch
Given nVidia's past behavior, I'd venture and guess that a new driver will be released shortly after the X.org R7.4 release. (Which hopefully be before July.)
However, given that fact that nVidia has released a number of new graphics card (9500/9600/9800) - that require the beta driver (173.08, using it here on my 9800GTX, has horrible 2D performance), a new beta driver can be expected any day now. (Hopefully with preliminary r7.4 support.)
I did a little bit of research and it turns out the 183.08 driver has experimental support for the X version we ship in F9.
Maybe you had a typo, 183.08 does not exist (yet) the last nvidia beta driver is 173.08 (10-apr)
That said, you need to apply a patch to the driver in order to build the driver with a 2.6.26+ kernel:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=112007&page=3
However, this driver has not 3D support (you need to 'Disable "glx"' in the Module section of the xorg config file) and also has not ABI support for the current X server version, so you need to start the X server with the --ignoreABI command line parameter.
Seems that the folks at nVidia are waiting for the final 1.5 xorg server to be released.
best regards
Teo Fonrouge
On Sat, 2008-05-10 at 11:12 -0500, Teo Fonrouge wrote:
On Saturday 10 May 2008 10:08:19 am David Nielsen wrote:
2008/5/10 Gilboa Davara gilboad@gmail.com:
On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 16:18 -0400, Arch Willingham wrote:
Any guess on how long after F9 come out that they will appear?
Arch
Given nVidia's past behavior, I'd venture and guess that a new driver will be released shortly after the X.org R7.4 release. (Which hopefully be before July.)
However, given that fact that nVidia has released a number of new graphics card (9500/9600/9800) - that require the beta driver (173.08, using it here on my 9800GTX, has horrible 2D performance), a new beta driver can be expected any day now. (Hopefully with preliminary r7.4 support.)
I did a little bit of research and it turns out the 183.08 driver has experimental support for the X version we ship in F9.
Maybe you had a typo, 183.08 does not exist (yet) the last nvidia beta driver is 173.08 (10-apr)
That said, you need to apply a patch to the driver in order to build the driver with a 2.6.26+ kernel:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=112007&page=3
However, this driver has not 3D support (you need to 'Disable "glx"' in the Module section of the xorg config file) and also has not ABI support for the current X server version, so you need to start the X server with the --ignoreABI command line parameter.
Seems that the folks at nVidia are waiting for the final 1.5 xorg server to be released.
...Which in turn makes this beta driver harder to set up, as well as no more functional, than the default nVidia driver that comes with F9 now. Perhaps the beta nVidia driver is arguably even less functional.
I guess we will just have to wait (albeit a bit impatiently in my case).
Cheers,
Chris
-- =========================== "If you are calm while all around you is chaos, then you probably haven't fully understood the magnitude of the situation."
--Unknown
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 7:41 PM, Christopher A. Williams chriswfedora@cawllc.com wrote:
On Sat, 2008-05-10 at 11:12 -0500, Teo Fonrouge wrote:
On Saturday 10 May 2008 10:08:19 am David Nielsen wrote:
2008/5/10 Gilboa Davara gilboad@gmail.com:
On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 16:18 -0400, Arch Willingham wrote:
Any guess on how long after F9 come out that they will appear?
Arch
Given nVidia's past behavior, I'd venture and guess that a new driver will be released shortly after the X.org R7.4 release. (Which hopefully be before July.)
However, given that fact that nVidia has released a number of new graphics card (9500/9600/9800) - that require the beta driver (173.08, using it here on my 9800GTX, has horrible 2D performance), a new beta driver can be expected any day now. (Hopefully with preliminary r7.4 support.)
I did a little bit of research and it turns out the 183.08 driver has experimental support for the X version we ship in F9.
Maybe you had a typo, 183.08 does not exist (yet) the last nvidia beta driver is 173.08 (10-apr)
That said, you need to apply a patch to the driver in order to build the driver with a 2.6.26+ kernel:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=112007&page=3
However, this driver has not 3D support (you need to 'Disable "glx"' in the Module section of the xorg config file) and also has not ABI support for the current X server version, so you need to start the X server with the --ignoreABI command line parameter.
Seems that the folks at nVidia are waiting for the final 1.5 xorg server to be released.
...Which in turn makes this beta driver harder to set up, as well as no more functional, than the default nVidia driver that comes with F9 now. Perhaps the beta nVidia driver is arguably even less functional.
I guess we will just have to wait (albeit a bit impatiently in my case).
"As for OpenGL, GLX support was not ready in time for this release. It's working now, so it should be available in the next release." http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=1625935&postcount=12
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