new nvidia drivers, both wintel and linux

verbatim · 12-04-2001, 09:58 PM

has anybody else upgraded to the new NVIDIA drivers for linux?

anybody have any problems?

im wondering cause i got royally screwed over by their linux drivers. i had the right os, right card, but now X wont start. Xconfigure just chooses the driver that phuckd my system to begin with, and when i force it to use VGA16 or something low of the like, it errors. now im forced to back up my valuable stuff to a server and re-install. i tried to re-install the existing drivers, but to no avail. my system was screwed up in other areas, so im gonna reinstall anyways, but does anybody have a clue?

one of my friends tried the new drivers for windows and he said it messed up his pc, but he could recover.

oh, and for reference: redhat 7.2, upgraded from 7.1 so the system thought it was 7.1, amd athlon 1.4ghz, 512mb ram, leadtek geforce2pro, 40gig ibm 60gxp, and nothing else out of the ordinary. thanks in advance.

MaggieL · 12-05-2001, 10:04 AM

Wow...thanks for the warning. I've got RH 7.1 in my machine, 7.2 sitting on my desk, and a TNT2 card. The current nVidia driver works mostly OK (execept it pees itself sometimes when you terminate X.

Sounds like maybe they have some work to do yet. I've become leery of some vendor-supplied Linux drivers, especially the skanky way nVidia supplies a binary that's masquerading as source code.

12-05-2001, 10:23 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by MaggieL
especially the skanky way nVidia supplies a binary that's masquerading as source code.

Explain.

verbatim · 12-05-2001, 06:53 PM

seems like im not the only one getter plastered by these drivers. from hardocp.com:

Quote:

On a more serious note it seems as if some NVIDIA VidCard and VIA chipset board owners are having problems with the newest NVIDIA Drivers according to LittleWhiteDog and that is straight from the horses mouth. Thanks Todd Benore.

its about a quarter of the way down the page right before the picture of the dual-athlon mobo at littlewhitedog

12-12-2001, 09:41 AM

Red Hat 5.0 -> 5.1 -> 5.2 -> 6.0 -> 6.1, then all hand-upgraded from there. nVidia drivers run fine

I bet you're all using KDE; try switching to GNOME. Some friends of mine in Mississippi were having the same problem, except their systems were hard freezing (no ssh/telnet in). Theirs was happening mainly during Q3. I set up a little .xinitrc just to run X and an Xterm, then we started running stuff from there. Never had a problem. I remember reading that some 3D cards & apps were having trouble with Enlightenment & KDE (that's actually why I first switched to WindowMaker under GNOME, then to Sawfish). Might be worth a try.

juju · 12-24-2001, 12:48 PM

I've been using nvidia drivers (currently version 1.0-1251) for over a year on my Linux machine, and have never had any problems at all. I'm using an Nvidia Geforce MX (w/ 32mb RAM) with Enlightenment as my window manager. Also, I have a VIA chipset on my motherboard.

Perhaps the problems are only with certain video cards?

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addendum: a very good resource for this topic is the #nvidia channel on irc.openprojects.net. I cannot speak highly enough of those folks. Very helpful.

12-24-2001, 01:22 PM

on my new box, i have been using the latest drivers (whatever they are) for my geforce3 ti 500. really stressing the system (q3 @ 1600x1200) and it's been solid as a rock. under linux, of course - can't speak for windows.

01-21-2002, 01:51 PM

I started getting hard locks recently. Found out today, it's attributed to a <b>bug in the processor</b>. If you're getting freezes and you have an Athlon, boot the kernel with

mem=nopentium

and this will fix it for now. I did it and it's been working fine for me so far. But I'll give it a few weeks and see where it goes.

As for W2K, there's a patch. Search Microsoft or AMD's page for it.

12-04-2001, 09:58 PM	#1
verbatim Vice-President of Resentment Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Pennsultucky Posts: 199	new nvidia drivers, both wintel and linux has anybody else upgraded to the new NVIDIA drivers for linux? anybody have any problems? im wondering cause i got royally screwed over by their linux drivers. i had the right os, right card, but now X wont start. Xconfigure just chooses the driver that phuckd my system to begin with, and when i force it to use VGA16 or something low of the like, it errors. now im forced to back up my valuable stuff to a server and re-install. i tried to re-install the existing drivers, but to no avail. my system was screwed up in other areas, so im gonna reinstall anyways, but does anybody have a clue? one of my friends tried the new drivers for windows and he said it messed up his pc, but he could recover. oh, and for reference: redhat 7.2, upgraded from 7.1 so the system thought it was 7.1, amd athlon 1.4ghz, 512mb ram, leadtek geforce2pro, 40gig ibm 60gxp, and nothing else out of the ordinary. thanks in advance.

12-05-2001, 10:04 AM	#2
MaggieL in the Hour of Scampering Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Jeffersonville PA (15 mi NW of Philadelphia) Posts: 4,060	Wow...thanks for the warning. I've got RH 7.1 in my machine, 7.2 sitting on my desk, and a TNT2 card. The current nVidia driver works mostly OK (execept it pees itself sometimes when you terminate X. Sounds like maybe they have some work to do yet. I've become leery of some vendor-supplied Linux drivers, especially the skanky way nVidia supplies a binary that's masquerading as source code. __________________ "Neither can his Mind be thought to be in Tune,whose words do jarre; nor his reason In frame, whose sentence is preposterous..."

12-24-2001, 12:48 PM	#6
juju no one of consequence Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Arkansas Posts: 2,839	I've been using nvidia drivers (currently version 1.0-1251) for over a year on my Linux machine, and have never had any problems at all. I'm using an Nvidia Geforce MX (w/ 32mb RAM) with Enlightenment as my window manager. Also, I have a VIA chipset on my motherboard. Perhaps the problems are only with certain video cards? ------- addendum: a very good resource for this topic is the #nvidia channel on irc.openprojects.net. I cannot speak highly enough of those folks. Very helpful. Last edited by juju; 12-24-2001 at 12:56 PM.

12-12-2001, 09:41 AM	#5
dave Guest Posts: n/a	Red Hat 5.0 -> 5.1 -> 5.2 -> 6.0 -> 6.1, then all hand-upgraded from there. nVidia drivers run fine I bet you're all using KDE; try switching to GNOME. Some friends of mine in Mississippi were having the same problem, except their systems were hard freezing (no ssh/telnet in). Theirs was happening mainly during Q3. I set up a little .xinitrc just to run X and an Xterm, then we started running stuff from there. Never had a problem. I remember reading that some 3D cards & apps were having trouble with Enlightenment & KDE (that's actually why I first switched to WindowMaker under GNOME, then to Sawfish). Might be worth a try.

12-24-2001, 01:22 PM	#7
dave Guest Posts: n/a	on my new box, i have been using the latest drivers (whatever they are) for my geforce3 ti 500. really stressing the system (q3 @ 1600x1200) and it's been solid as a rock. under linux, of course - can't speak for windows.

01-21-2002, 01:51 PM	#8
dave Guest Posts: n/a	I started getting hard locks recently. Found out today, it's attributed to a <b>bug in the processor</b>. If you're getting freezes and you have an Athlon, boot the kernel with mem=nopentium and this will fix it for now. I did it and it's been working fine for me so far. But I'll give it a few weeks and see where it goes. As for W2K, there's a patch. Search Microsoft or AMD's page for it.

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