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Old 03-12-2005, 03:34 PM   #1
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Talking New nVidia drivers 1.0-7167 woohoo!

I just thought you boys and girls would like to know that yesterday nVidia released their 1.0-7167 drivers for linux. I installed them on Slackware 10.1, Kernel 2.6.11 without any mucking around with patches to get the drivers installed. They work great for me. Woohoo!

http://www.nvidia.com

Enjoy!
 
Old 03-12-2005, 03:36 PM   #2
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Thanks for the info. I'll try it out right now :-)

Edit:

Done. Seems to work fine. No hassle at all (kernel 2.6.10, own build, kernel-headers-2.6.10 from testing/ installed). Will report troubles here.
Last edited by Seppel; 03-12-2005 at 03:43 PM.
 
Old 03-12-2005, 04:38 PM   #3
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I still get the "/sbin/depmod -aq" error, like I did with the 6629 drivers, but I just told it to continue anyway and they seem to work (I haven't tried anything that actually uses OpenGL yet).

Here's a snippet from the end of my nvidia-installer.log:
Code:
-> Installing 'NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86' (1.0-7167):
   executing: './usr/src/nv/makedevices.sh'...
   executing: '/sbin/ldconfig'...
   executing: '/sbin/depmod -aq'...
   depmod:  multiply defined
   depmod:  multiply defined
   depmod: 
    multiply defined
   depmod:  multiply defined
   depmod:  multiply defined
   depmod: vut multiply defined
   depmod:  multiply defined
   depmod:  multiply defined
   depmod:  multiply defined
   depmod:  multiply defined
ERROR: Failed to execute `/sbin/depmod -aq`: depmod:  multiply defined
       depmod:  multiply defined
       depmod: 
       multiply defined
       depmod:  multiply defined
       depmod:  multiply defined
       depmod: vut multiply defined
       depmod:  multiply defined
       depmod:  multiply defined
       depmod:  multiply defined
       depmod:  multiply defined
-> The installer has encountered the following error during installation: 'Fail
   ed to execute `/sbin/depmod -aq`'.  Continue anyway? ("no" will abort)? (Ans
   wer: Yes)
-> done.
-> Driver file installation is complete.
-> Running post-install sanity check:
-> done.
-> Post-install sanity check passed.
-> Shared memory test passed.
-> Running runtime sanity check:
-> done.
-> Runtime sanity check passed.
-> Installation of the NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86
   (version: 1.0-7167) is now complete.  Please update your XF86Config or
   xorg.conf file as appropriate; see the file
   /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README for details.
I did run "sh NVIDIA-etc.run" as root.
 
Old 03-12-2005, 06:28 PM   #4
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Quote:
Originally posted by Seiken
I still get the "/sbin/depmod -aq" error, like I did with the 6629 drivers, but I just told it to continue anyway and they seem to work (I haven't tried anything that actually uses OpenGL yet).
Seiken, I noticed that you had this problem before...
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...5&pagenumber=2

Hmmm, strange... I upgraded to 7167 from 6629 without a hitch (less than three minutes). When I installed 6629 long ago I didn't have any trouble installing it either (once I had applied the necessary patches).

I'm running my own custom compiled vanilla 2.6.11 kernel and am not running any of the precompiled kernels included with Slackware.
 
Old 03-12-2005, 07:08 PM   #5
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I am running the 2.4.29 that came with 10.1.
 
Old 03-12-2005, 08:52 PM   #6
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Coolness, Thanks. I just installed the new drivers and they work, unlike the other ones. Thanks alot for the info. by the way, I did glxgears after configureing and am getting around 3000 fps. Before I had 265, lol.
 
Old 03-12-2005, 10:16 PM   #7
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I am running the 2.4.29 that came with 10.1.
I'll have to install the 2.4.29 kernel that comes with 10.1 and see if I can reproduce your problem. Do the new drivers work for you now or are you having problems?

Which of the 2.4.29 kernels are you using? (bare.i, bareacpi.i, etc?)
 
Old 03-13-2005, 05:25 AM   #8
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bare.i, I think. I didn't specify anything different. and yes, they are working now. I ran glxgears, and get around 820fps windows, and 120 fullscreen (geforce2 mx400 on a p4 1.6)... so I'm assuming that means they work
 
Old 03-13-2005, 09:13 AM   #9
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bare.i, I think. I didn't specify anything different. and yes, they are working now. I ran glxgears, and get around 820fps windows, and 120 fullscreen (geforce2 mx400 on a p4 1.6)... so I'm assuming that means they work
Great to hear that they're working! On my PIII 600 192MB RAM (with a geforce2 mx400 32MB AGP adapter) I'm getting 865fps on the default window size that glxgears starts with and somewhere around 184fps in full screen (1280x1024).

Cheers!
 
Old 03-13-2005, 09:48 AM   #10
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holy... why are my fps rates so low in comparison to yours? is there some tweaking I should be aware of?

all I did was change my driver in xorg.conf to "nvidia", and uncomment the Load glx line.
 
Old 03-13-2005, 10:35 AM   #11
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holy... why are my fps rates so low in comparison to yours? is there some tweaking I should be aware of?
I think you said you were using kernel 2.4.29, remember...I'm using 2.6.11 -- which "may" be the difference. Of course, I don't know if the default 2.4.29 kernel in Slackware 10.1 has SMP compiled into it, if not...you might want to look at compiling a new kernel with SMP (multiple processor support) option enabled. Linux sees all P4 processors with hyperthreading as dual processors. However, if it is turned on in 2.4.29 you may want to compile a 2.6.11 kernel for use on your system and see if you gain any speed increases.

FYI a quick summary of some hardware in my system:
PIII 600
192MB RAM PC 100
geForce mx400 32MB RAM (AGP)
Motherboard with an Intel 820 Chipset with integrated audio.
Lite-On 8x4x32x CDRW
 
Old 03-13-2005, 11:08 AM   #12
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Something else I just thought of, have you set the amount of "VideoRam" in your xorg.conf file? It defaults to 4096 (4mb). You might also want to lower the DefaultDepth from 24 or 32 to 16 unless you really need that many colors. I happen to use DefaultDepth 16 and not 24 or 32 because I don't need that many colors. Lowering the DefaultDepth also helps performance at the cost of the number of colors displayed to the screen.
 
Old 03-13-2005, 11:21 AM   #13
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For me new drivers don't compile. They complain about missing the kernel source, but even if I specify the path to the soruce, ti complains again. The only solution is to load agpgart module, and then, drivers compile. This is weird, cause I don't use agpgart, but nvidia. The new drivers worked poorly compared with 6629, so I switched back to them.
 
Old 03-13-2005, 11:24 AM   #14
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I am running at 24 bit... I guess I don't NEED that many colours. Perhaps I'll try 16 bit and see if I care (or even notice.)

In xorgconfig I set my VideoRAM to 64MB, but in my xorg.conf the line is commented out. Should I uncomment it?
 
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From my experience 6629 didn't work with my nVidia Riva TNT2. Does this new one (7167) work with TNT2's or do I have to stick with 6111 still?
 
  


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