has anyone installed the new nvidia driver 1.0-5328 on slackware 9.1 kernel 2.4.22? the install goes fine but when i run a 3d game or select a GL screensaver (like euphoria, my favorite) it is extremely slow. if i uninstall the 5328 driver and reinstall the 4496 driver, everything works fine.

i have an nvidia geforce2

has anyone else experienced this issue?

I too have a GeForce2 GTS card......gonna stay with .4496
for now, it works fine on Both my P3 and P4 boxes.......
if it ain't broke, why mess with a good thing.

I got a GeForce FX 5200 on this comp running Slack 9.1 kernel 2.4.23. The NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run works, and my opinion is that "latest isn't the greatest." Support for my card is there, and I can top 3,000 FPS so I'll stay with it. If I change it'll be to get another ATI card. Nvidia may be better for games (which I don't play), but ATI is better for displaying text and graphics. In Win2K the Nvidia display is awful compared to the ATI.

My wife and daughter's comp has a Nvidia GeForce4 MX 440 8X, Slack 9.1 and kernel 2.4.23 and the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5328-pkg1.run driver did not work, so I removed it and installed the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run which works okay.

Run glxgears in a terminal with X going and see what you get. If your FPS gets around 3,000 you're getting about all you can expect - from what I've read about these drivers and *nix.

currently, is there any official driver from nvidia for kernel 2.6?

Read this ->

ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Li....0-5328/README

Then read the posts here in LQ and see how much trouble everyone has been having with the new "stable" 2.6.0 kernel.

i also had the same thing with geforce4mx440 32mb almost stopped rendering any frames at all :/ one step back for nvidia, still havent tried older drivers, the 2nd thing i noticed was that fonts look now worse than with 'generic' 'nv' driver from XFree and that is the mystery

thank you all for your replies and i have to say i agree...newer isnt always better.

have reinstalled the 4496 driver on my machine with a quadro.
ran the glxgears and i am getting frame rates above 8000. one low of 5138fps and a high of 9260fps. most others are in the 8000 range. i am running at 1152x864 16 bit on a P4 1.8 gig machine with 512 ram. i guess i can get more than 3000 out of this driver huh? is it the quadro card?

jsmarshall85

I don't know if it's the quadro or what, since these are my first 2 Nividia cards and I've always been an ATI guy. But, whatever you've done, don't change it!

If it ain't broke, don't fix it!

so it is true and not just me....

the new nvidia drivers are no good, don't upgrade, pkg1 and pkg2 versions will probably be out soon for those drivers

as for running in 2.6 kernel, couldn't have been better

look around for posts about compiling the nvidia drivers in 2.6 kernel; sounds hard but it's not half bad, and they work great

I didn't quite understand your post. Are you saying that NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5328-pkg1.run works with the 2.6.0 kernel?

actually, i didn't try compiling the new drivers on linux 2.6, only on my 2.4.23 and they weren't too great

however, i have successfully installed 4496 drivers on the 2.6 kernel without any problems and they work like a charm (i needed to patch the installer of course)

try this thread
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...iver+kernel+.6

Thanks for the clarification. I haven't tried 2.6.0 yet, and am using 2.4.23 on both comps here with Slack 9.1. They both have Nvidia cards and use the 4496 pkg2 drivers, also.

http://minion.de for the NVIDIA 2.6 kernel patches... for me I'm using NVAGP over AGPGART with 5328 and notice no difference at all from 4496

From reading other posts, some have success with drivers off that site, and others have failure.

in my case, things became even worse than the default nv driver. by the way, i am using rh 9.0

i am now stepping back to 4496