NVIDIA Releases Four New Linux Drivers

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NVIDIA Releases Four New Linux Drivers

The NVIDIA 180.22 Linux driver was released less than three weeks ago, but today NVIDIA has released a new 180.xx display driver update. In addition, NVIDIA has updated all three of their legacy display drivers.

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=13430

[Kano]

There is a new mplayer snapshot too:

ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/vdpau/mplayer-vdpau-3402051.tar.bz2

[Dragoran]

What the NVIDIA 180.25 Linux driver lacks, however, is official support for X Server 1.6.

Thats not true, it does support xorg ABI 5 (i.e xserver 1.6) it was just missed in the changelog.

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=1909218&postcount=5

[Eragon]

Thats not true, it does support xorg ABI 5 (i.e xserver 1.6) it was just missed in the changelog.

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=1909218&postcount=5

I expected something like that, it would be quite strange if all of the legacy drivers would support xserver 1.6, but the driver for "new" cards wouldn't.

[superppl]

Don't get me wrong, but I wish Nvidia would pay a little more attention the windows driver. It's a pain in the rear to find a working driver for mobile Nvidia gpus on windows, but I have never had a problem on linux. :)

[Dragoran]

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=1915345&postcount=8

[sylware]

Indeed the closed hardware programming manual bug is still here... sad, and AMD/Intel/Via have fixed that bug. nvidia is quite late.

[debianite]

Any one tested hibernate/suspend on this version?
On 180.22 it was messed up. :(

[Dragoran]

Any one tested hibernate/suspend on this version?
On 180.22 it was messed up. :(

works fine with both versions for me, and the changelog mentions fixes in this area, so if it was broken for you its worth trying again with 180.25

[debianite]

works fine with both versions for me, and the changelog mentions fixes in this area, so if it was broken for you its worth trying again with 180.25

As soon as I get me hands on me laptop I will try it and give some feedback. ;)

[cruiseoveride]

Please Nvidia, write a driver for my HD4870 *puppy dawg eyes*

[NSLW]

Any one tested hibernate/suspend on this version?
On 180.22 it was messed up. :(

I can suspend then resume but i can not resume after hibernation.

[Eazy]

From Nvidia 180.18 I can no longer install the drivers. X wont start.

My normal way of installing is:
Ctrl + Alt + F1
sudo /etc/init.d/kdm stop
sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-XXX.XX-pkg1.run
sudo /etc/init.d/kdm start

I always installed the Nvidia drivers this way, and never had any problems.

Someone suggested to remove anything related to Nvidia (nvidia-kernel-common) from synaptic, but that will also remove linux-generic, linux-restricted-modules- 2.6.24-23-generic, linux-restricted-modules-generic.

Doesn't that makes other things stop working depending on those packages? I don't dare to remove nvidia-kernel-common as I expect other things might stop working.

Anyone has a suggestion?

Running Kubuntu 8.04 btw.

[dashcloud]

Is it just me, or does the speed of Nvidia's releases seemed to have picked up?

[jeffro-tull]

*sigh*
180.25 came out, and I'm still waiting for 180.22 to hit the openSUSE repos. Ah well. It's not like anything terribly new and exciting is in store for my Geforce 6200 with these new releases.

[Kano]

@Eazy

You forgot one major step after kdm stop:

sudo rmmod nvidia

[lmax]

su
init 3
do anything you want!

cheers

[Kano]

init 3 does nothing on pure debian/ubuntu as it is the same as runlevel 2, 4 and 5.

[joshuapurcell]

Does anyone use an external monitor? I'm using 177.82 and I have serious problems with the external projector starting correctly (on Ubuntu 9.10). It doesn't work at all when I'm using visual effects, and I still am not even though the secondary display shows a desktop without desktop affects it eventually hangs my entire system and I have to do a hard reboot. I wonder if this area is improved in any of the releases since 177.82.

[deanjo]

*sigh*
180.25 came out, and I'm still waiting for 180.22 to hit the openSUSE repos. Ah well. It's not like anything terribly new and exciting is in store for my Geforce 6200 with these new releases.
180.22 have been on the repo since Jan 15.

ftp://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/11.1/x86_64/

[jeffro-tull]

huh.

For some reason, as far as Zypper knew, nothing changed in that repo. I run zypper refresh and/or zypper up almost daily (keeping up with Factory for KDE 4.2), and that repo always came up as being up do date. Interesting.

Well, thanks for the heads up.

[Eazy]

@Eazy

You forgot one major step after kdm stop:

sudo rmmod nvidia

That did not make any difference. I never had to do that on previous drivers either.

[yogi_berra]

Phoronix: NVIDIA Releases Four New Linux Drivers

The NVIDIA 180.22 Linux driver was released less than three weeks ago, but today NVIDIA has released a new 180.xx display driver update. In addition, NVIDIA has updated all three of their legacy display drivers.

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=13430

Would it have killed you to type the four letters B, E, T, and then A for your readership to understand that these are beta drivers?

[jeffro-tull]

Would it have killed you to type the four letters B, E, T, and then A for your readership to understand that these are beta drivers?

whoa, whoa, whoa. You expect them to link to themselves with every given opportunity and throw out useful nuggets like the development status of a graphics driver? That's just asking too much.

[yogi_berra]

whoa, whoa, whoa. You expect them to link to themselves with every given opportunity and throw out useful nuggets like the development status of a graphics driver? That's just asking too much.

Oh come on, its not like I'm asking for source code.

[DeepDayze]

Please Nvidia, write a driver for my HD4870 *puppy dawg eyes*

Now would that be amazing if nVidia wrote a driver for that card that's BETTER than ATI's own :rolleyes:

[Troggy]

Are there any news about a fix for the issue with GT200 cards not throttling in 2D mode with 2 monitors attached?