NVIDIA 180.22 x86/x86_64 Linux Driver Released

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NVIDIA 180.22 x86/x86_64 Linux Driver Released

Up to this point NVIDIA had released several betas in the 180.xx driver series that introduced VDPAU acceleration support, OpenGL 3.0, CUDA 2.1, and other Linux work. This afternoon all of these new features are finally supported by NVIDIA with the release of the first stable Linux driver in this latest series. The NVIDIA 180.22 Linux driver also officially adds in support for new GeForce and Quadro GPUs, workstation performance optimizations, glyph cache by default, improved X pixmap placement, and various bug-fixes...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=Njk3OA

[jdhore]

woot! I'm glad to see that all these awesome features are now in a stable branch. However...I'm gonna keep using what i'm currently using (173.14.05) because...It has everything i need, it supports my card and everything i use it for works flawlessly.

[Zibi1981]

I, on the other hand, can't wait till this new driver will hit Arch's repos :) Hope it will be a good release with few not very annoying bugs.

[gtrawoger]

Well, for me, this driver still borks the suspend feature on my laptop. All of the 180.* did that for me.

Anybody got the suspend working?

[jeffro-tull]

I was scared for a little while. A few of the beta releases left out the GeForce 6 series in their supported line-up, but looks like they're a go for the final release. I know my 6200 doesn't support VDPAU, but the 170-series drivers had some issues with KDE4. As soon as this new one hits the OpenSUSE repos I'll have to give it a spin.

[tmpdir]

I was scared for a little while. A few of the beta releases left out the GeForce 6 series in their supported line-up, but looks like they're a go for the final release. I know my 6200 doesn't support VDPAU, but the 170-series drivers had some issues with KDE4. As soon as this new one hits the OpenSUSE repos I'll have to give it a spin.

Thanks for the heads-up... i'll take a look to.

[deanjo]

I was scared for a little while. A few of the beta releases left out the GeForce 6 series in their supported line-up, but looks like they're a go for the final release. I know my 6200 doesn't support VDPAU, but the 170-series drivers had some issues with KDE4. As soon as this new one hits the OpenSUSE repos I'll have to give it a spin.

Should be soon, Stefan is working on it. Maybe by later today since no major changes are needed to the existing spec files.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=464695

[BagOfMostlyWater]

Has the black window problem been fixed yet?

[Vadi]

Suspend worked from 173 to 177 to 180 here :|

[deanjo]

Has the black window problem been fixed yet?


that was fixed ages ago with the 100.14.19 driver release

[BagOfMostlyWater]

that was fixed ages ago with the 100.14.19 driver release

Thanks deanjo. I'm using Ubuntu Intrepid and the nvidia-glx package is at 96.43.05. :P I wonder why 100.x isn't in intrepid.

I just checked and apparently I should be using nvidia-glx-173 with my Quadro FX 1100. I had swapped it out for an old ATI card because the black windows made it unusable.

[deanjo]

Thanks deanjo. I'm using Ubuntu Intrepid and the nvidia-glx package is at 96.43.05. :P I wonder why 100.x isn't in intrepid.

I just checked and apparently I should be using nvidia-glx-173 with my Quadro FX 1100. I had swapped it out for an old ATI card because the black windows made it unusable.

I would recommend using the 173.14.15's for your Quadro.

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=122423

[debianite]

Hi all.

After upgrading from 177.82 to 180.22 my suspend stop working correctly and my compiz-fusion started to crash the hole system (Debian Lenny nvidia 9300gs. Downgraded to 177.82 and all works again. :confused:

[Zibi1981]

Hi all.

After upgrading from 177.82 to 180.22 my suspend stop working correctly and my compiz-fusion started to crash the hole system (Debian Lenny nvidia 9300gs. Downgraded to 177.82 and all works again. :confused:

Well, on my MSI MegaBook GX600P-208NL with GeForce 8600M GT onboard I wasn't very successful with s2ram using 177.82 drivers. Hope freshly released version will bring major improvement in this matter.

[matti3]

woot, finally!

Should be soon, Stefan is working on it. Maybe by later today since no major changes are needed to the existing spec files.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=464695

this is great news! can't wait! (btw, link yields gateway timeout)

[deanjo]

woot, finally!



this is great news! can't wait! (btw, link yields gateway timeout)

Stefan has completed the build files and submitted the rpm's to nvidia for inclusion on their ftp repo. Should be there Monday it looks like.

[gtrawoger]

Suspend worked from 173 to 177 to 180 here :|

I just checked this on my desktop. With an 8800GT suspend works on the desktop (with the 180.22).
But my Dell 1520 with an 8600M GT can't suspend. Well, it does suspend, just never comes back out... kinda stinks since I never suspend my desktop, just my laptop. :(

[DuGi]

i have problem with new drivers - when i try to overclock my 9600gso card system freeze or performance is very low (10fps in glxgears). it's happens on every driver from 180.xx series. any idea what's wrong? on previous drivers (177.xx) overclocking working without problems.

[Porter]

Anyone have an idea of when this will be packaged for Ubuntu? Or if a backport is in the works for Intrepid?

[Huenengrab]

On my 4,1 Macbook Pro I am experiencing ugly refresh-errors with the 180-Drivers (beta-versions too), when using Compiz. I have to manually click on the Window Manager (gtk-window-decorator) in order for any changes in the applications state to be displayed. This sucks.

With 177.82 those errors only occur on occasion. I installed Arch Linux without Boot Camp and just rely on rEFIt. Maybe that's what's causing the problems?

[b0uncyfr0]

After upgrading to 180.22 from Arch Extra repo, ET:QW has gotten all blotchy.

I open the game and its just messed up. Anyone experience this yet or is it just me?

[urfe]

After upgrading to 180.22 from Arch Extra repo, ET:QW has gotten all blotchy.

I open the game and its just messed up. Anyone experience this yet or is it just me?

No, I have a similar problem. I get a low frame rate in Urban Terror.

[chibacityblues]

180.22 gives me headaches too. I got an Asus M3N78-VM with GeForce 8200 IGP. Compiz renders the computer unusable slow and even without compositing it is rather slow when I switch workspaces: firefox runs on one, nothing on the other. When I switch, it takes one whole second till the wallpaper is finally displayed fully.

Any Ideas?

[urfe]

I think the 180.22 drivers have the GlyphCache set to 1 (some things run slower on my 8600 with the cache enabled). You could try with GlyphCache set to 0 (the default option for the 177.x series).

GlyphCache enabled:

nvidia-settings -a GlyphCache=1


GlyphCache disabled:

nvidia-settings -a GlyphCache=0

Edit: You could try to change the IPP and PixmapCache options, too.

[Porter]

Any word on Ubuntu Intrepid packages of this? I'd like to avoid totally breaking this system if the Nvidia install method doesn't go smoothly.

[Kano]

http://kanotix.com/files/install-nvidia-debian.sh

This script even enables dkms for nvidia.

[Vadi]

There are 180. packages for ubuntu in intrepid-backports, I think, however a lot of people reported bad breakage with 180.22 drivers.

[MellowFellow]

Upgraded from 177.82 to 180.22 and mythtv started stealing all my CPU using either libmpeg2 or XvMC output. Went back down to 177.82 and myth hovers around 30%.

Fedora 10 64bit (2.6.27.9-159.fc10.x86_64)
GeForce 7600GS
Intel Q6600 on ASRock Conroe865PE (4Gb RAM)

[Porter]

There are 180. packages for ubuntu in intrepid-backports, I think, however a lot of people reported bad breakage with 180.22 drivers.

Can you expand on this?

[Vadi]

See some posts at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6646269