[arch-dev-public] New NVIDIA legacy drivers compatible with our latest xorg-server
NVIDIA released new prereleases of their 173.xx.xx and 96.xx.xx drivers ([1], [2]). Driver packages and kernel modules for the 2.6.31-ARCH kernel are being uploaded now, they should start to appear on mirrors soon. Please test them and report. [1] http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=2122688 [2] http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=2122691
On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 18:23 +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote:
NVIDIA released new prereleases of their 173.xx.xx and 96.xx.xx drivers ([1], [2]). Driver packages and kernel modules for the 2.6.31-ARCH kernel are being uploaded now, they should start to appear on mirrors soon. Please test them and report.
[1] http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=2122688 [2] http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=2122691
Ah good, so that solves issues with people unable to use nvidia drivers with X.Org 7.5. To solve all problems, we just have to wait for a new nvidia driver that fixes the awful slowdowns with an xorg-server package that has the fedora patch applied. Fedora claims the patch isn't the fault here and forwarded this issue to Nvidia. I don't know when we can expect a new driver with the fix though. To sidestep a bit more: we have had many requests for VDPAU support in packages like Xine and mplayer. 2 months ago, nvidia released a standalone libvdpau library released with BSD-style license. We should package that library and remove the conflicting files from nvidia-utils.
Jan de Groot schrieb:
To solve all problems, we just have to wait for a new nvidia driver that fixes the awful slowdowns with an xorg-server package that has the fedora patch applied. Fedora claims the patch isn't the fault here and forwarded this issue to Nvidia. I don't know when we can expect a new driver with the fix though.
Really? That sucks. If it was just a problem in Xorg, we could fix it and not care about nvidia.
On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 18:55 +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote:
Jan de Groot schrieb:
To solve all problems, we just have to wait for a new nvidia driver that fixes the awful slowdowns with an xorg-server package that has the fedora patch applied. Fedora claims the patch isn't the fault here and forwarded this issue to Nvidia. I don't know when we can expect a new driver with the fix though.
Really? That sucks. If it was just a problem in Xorg, we could fix it and not care about nvidia.
Without the patch, we have segfaults in multiple drivers. With the first version of the patch, nvidia works more or less, but all other drivers have problems. With the last version of the patch, everything works, but Nvidia is dead slow in KDE, with or without desktop effects. Fedora closed the bug with CANTFIX and forwarded it to nvidia. The event overflow stuff that causes the slowdowns only happens with nvidia, not with nv or nouveau.
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