nVidia Driver
 

I wanted to let everyone know that a new nVidia driver is available, just released today. I will post my results as soon as I get home and get that module built.

It seems to work fine. No problem building for linux 2.6.11.6.

How do you judge your graphics card's performance? I just check out xScreensaver, and count my FPS. What do the rest of you do?

Well, I use glxgears and/or play doom3!!!:D

UT2004 is about the only game that I play. Can Doom 3 be installed in linux? Or does it take Wine? If so, how hard to set up is it?

Try flightgear, a good open source flight simulator for linux,
and slackware package is available :

http://www.flightgear.org/Downloads/binary.shtml#linux

Yes. No. Not hard at all.

installing nvidia driver without reboot
 

You can install nvidia driver without reboot.

Requirements:
0: Module unloading is compiled into the kernel.
Loadable module support --->Module unloading

1: init 3, you do not boot-up to Xwindows.

2: agpart - compiled as module, this seems to be a requirement with 71** drivers.

edited:
"3: I guess it is quite obvious you need root access. :D"


Steps:
1. Download latest nvidia driver.

2. modprobe -r nividia

3. cd /path/to/NVIDIA-driver

4. sh NVIDIA-driver and follow through the normal compilation/installation procedure

5. startx

6. in a terminal, nvidia-settings &
The NVIDIA X Server Settings window will appear and you can see the NVIDIA Driver Version: 1.0-7174(latest)

Hope this helps.

Edited:
Works fine with Slackware-currrent, 2.6.11.6 kernel.

Edited again:
Beat the hell out of windoze, huh.. who says installing new driver needs rebooting?