new nvidia driver released today! (4496)

neenee · 07-29-2003, 04:51 AM

click here to go to the download page on nvidia.com

Release Highlights

* GeForce FX 5900 support
* Support for Active Stereo + TwinView
* Initial support for APM power management
* Improved OpenGL performance when rendering to multiple
buffers (such as when using a stereo visual and rendering to
GL_LEFT_AND_RIGHT).

enjoy.

moeminhtun · 07-29-2003, 04:57 AM

Should I need to upgrade my old driver?

MasterC · 07-29-2003, 05:03 AM

If it's doin something funny or not performing up to par, yes. If it's working great, it's not like it's a security fix

So probably not.

Cool

Vlad_M · 07-29-2003, 06:09 AM

just checked the bug-fix list, nothing remarkable if you don't own one of the FX cards....so no updating for me, esp not on this crappy dialup that I am on.

Mega Man X · 07-29-2003, 07:45 AM

I've heard somewhere in this forum, or was it a clever signature?

. Well, it stands "If it's not broken, don't fix it..."

That's so true

contrasutra · 07-29-2003, 03:09 PM

I dont know, I have a Geforece4MX440, and Unreal Tournament 2003 gave me 5-7 FPS more from the earlier Nvidia drivers. And I got 150FPS more in glxgears.

nxny · 07-29-2003, 03:41 PM

I've a GeForce2 MX and I was using release 4191 when it used to freeze my display just trying to open any KDE app. KWord, Konqueror.. anything. None of the virtual terminals work either. SSH-ing into it from my laptop would be only way to safely power it down, if you dont want to pull the plug on it. Upgrading to 4363 fixed it.

If you have an nvidia card and you're using a really old nvidia driver, I would recommend upgrading.

chrismiceli · 07-29-2003, 03:55 PM

I juist upgraded my geforce 3 ti 200 and look at the difference from glxgears

on 4363 version
9189 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1837.800 FPS
11005 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2201.000 FPS
11034 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2206.800 FPS
11075 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2215.000 FPS
11053 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2210.600 FPS
11012 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2202.400 FPS
11028 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2205.600 FPS
11072 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2214.400 FPS
11076 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2215.200 FPS
11045 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2209.000 FPS
11013 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2202.600 FPS
11018 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2203.600 FPS
11051 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2210.200 FPS
11060 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2212.000 FPS
11035 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2207.000 FPS
10984 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2196.800 FPS
11039 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2207.800 FPS

on new 4496
11235 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2247.000 FPS
12579 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2515.800 FPS
12583 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2516.600 FPS
12607 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2521.400 FPS
12589 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2517.800 FPS
12552 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2510.400 FPS
12605 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2521.000 FPS

that is good enough for me, installation was painless, just sh NVIDIA.. --uninstall
then on new one
sh NVIDIA...

linuxlah · 07-29-2003, 06:34 PM

my 4363 got some issues with glut.h. I've to unistall nvidia driver inorder for me to compile openGL programs... these are the errors:

/usr/lib/libglut.so: undefined reference to `glXBindChannelToWindowSGIX'
/usr/lib/libglut.so: undefined reference to `glXQueryChannelDeltasSGIX'
/usr/lib/libglut.so: undefined reference to `glXChannelRectSyncSGIX'
/usr/lib/libglut.so: undefined reference to `glXChannelRectSGIX'
/usr/lib/libglut.so: undefined reference to `glXQueryChannelRectSGIX'

I hope the new one have to the fix for this... Is kinda pain to uninstall nvidia diriver every time I want to compile stuffs and reinstall it again to play the stuffs...

linuxlah · 07-29-2003, 06:52 PM

Yupe... the new driver fix this...!!! The method I used to install new dirver is to use the old driver like this..
./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4363.run --update
and the magic begins........

rooman · 07-30-2003, 02:01 PM

I have not been able to get my GeForce 4mx 440 working with ANY of the new or older nvidia drivers, (mdk9.1). Can I see sample xf86 config files please? & any other file entries...

Also, what's needed in the mouse device section to make a ps2 wheel mouse work?

yowwww · 07-30-2003, 02:24 PM

1 - I have the exact same card and it works perfectly for me using both drivers, although i don't use mdk, I used rh and now I have jamd.

2 - make sure it says imps/2 in the file. You should be able to pick a generic wheel mouse and it should work though.

*maybe mdk doesn't like you, it sure didn't like me, lol.

linuxlah · 07-30-2003, 06:41 PM

I'm using the same card too. For graphics card and mouse config you need to edit the XF86Config... RH9 puts it at /etc/X11/XF86Config

For nvidia this is what I have done to my XF86Config...

PHP Code:



Section "Module" 
        Load  "dbe" 
        Load  "extmod" 
        Load  "fbdevhw" 
        Load  "glx" 
        Load  "record" 
        Load  "freetype" 
        Load  "type1" 
#       Load  "dri"      <------comment this out 
EndSection

PHP Code:



Section "Device" 
        Identifier  "Videocard0" 
        Driver      "nvidia"    #<---- change this form whatever (mine was nv) to nvidia 
        VendorName  "Videocard vendor" 
        BoardName   "NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX (generic)" 
        VideoRam    65536 
EndSection

PHP Code:



#Section "DRI"         <-----comment all of these 
#       Group        0 
#       Mode         0666 
#EndSection

This is my setup for my scroll mouse..

PHP Code:



Section "InputDevice" 
        Identifier  "Mouse0" 
        Driver      "mouse" 
        Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2" 
        Option      "Device" "/dev/psaux" 
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" 
        Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "no" 
EndSection

rooman · 07-31-2003, 01:10 PM

My scroll mouse is working fine now, I use Buttons 5 and the zx thingy, it's great.
As for XF86Config-4, I've tried all that more than 6 months ago and I've never had working 3d graphics on this card (with Linux).