NVIDIA 304.37 Linux Driver Brings 41 Official Changes

[RealNC]

This is wonderful news!

Now I'm hoping for a "--delete-Mesa" switch, followed by "--kill-GCC", and finally "--replace-everything-with-Win8", so people have no problems anymore and nothing conflicts with the official driver.

That's exactly what we want a hardware vendor to do -- not opening specification so we can use their shit, but deleting open source software from your computer if it doesn't fit in with their secretive master plan.

Kudos!

Are you an idiot?

[pingufunkybeat]

Are you an idiot?

Takes one to know one. What do you say?

[Kano]

@pingufunkybeat

nouveau is not killed it is just blacklisted. Btw. older installers asked already if you want to blacklist nouveau, so there is just a switch to do so, thats nothing magical. I would just prefer a switch to disable all X runtime, nouveau or whatever checks, that is really annoying. Every few releases there was a new check, some i avoided using mount --bind or so, but basically all that worked later was killing X inside screen. At least that works - a bit tricky but you can switch from nouveau to nvidia binary without rebooting. When you try the same with fglrx your system will definitely crash. Unloading radeon is however possible with the same trick.

Btw. on newer distributions with multiarch i highly recommend using the official distro packages (or correct backports) instead of running the nvidia installer directly - usually now they are very tightly integrated with switching support and other things that will definitely brake when you use the installer. The same is for fglrx, but there you could try to build distro specific packages. That does not work for Debian wheezy+ however.

[pingufunkybeat]

Kano,

yes, my post was exaggerated satire, but I'm understandably upset that the only contribution Nvidia is making to the nouveau project is blacklisting it. This attitude is nothing new, but command line switches like this one are quite cynical.

I have to run Nvidia hardware at work (Cuda/OpenCL) and I had problems with official packages (Debian). The drivers themselves work (you have to pull them from experimental), but the Cuda/CL stuff is incomplete and broken, and I had to go back to the installer. This is also annoying -- I hate running closed source binaries as root. The whole process feels antiquated and alien to the operating system.

[RealNC]

yes, my post was exaggerated satire, but I'm understandably upset that the only contribution Nvidia is making to the nouveau project is blacklisting it.

"Understandably" upset? Nope. You're just trolling about a command line option that actually helps ensure the drivers will work if you're currently running Nouveou.

Yes, making a driver more user friendly is a bad thing.

So the user should be greeted with an X11 that doesn't start and it should be impossible to disable the open driver. Yey, what a great idea. You're a genius.

[Licaon]

yes, my post was exaggerated satire, but I'm understandably upset that the only contribution Nvidia is making to the nouveau project is blacklisting it. This attitude is nothing new, but command line switches like this one are quite cynical.

Want some cynic bits? Did you write your firmware for your hardware too? Guess who is running blobby bits as root, lol. But now enough with the trolling. mmmkay? :P

now, regarding VDPAU + KDE4 + composition + SMPlayer:
*mplayer2-windowed - some mouse slowdown for my USB mouse ( I won't notice it as I go for fullscreen anyway most of the time ) and almost none for my PS/2 one, makes me think about the powersaving options for USB, this can be debugged with PowerTop I guess
*mplayer2-fullscreen - almost no slowdown, it's not perfect but it's almost there
*mplayer1-full&window - almost no slowdown, it's not perfect but it's almost there
*Flash video even 1080p, 32bit version since the 64bit does not work ok/stable in Opera 64bit, accelerated display, accelerated decoding - no slowdown

Note that I'm using http://deb-multimedia.org/ builds of sm/mplayer so your results may vary.

Regarding FXAA:
Unigine Heaven 3.0
Render: opengl
Mode: 1920x1080
Shaders: high
Textures: high
Filter: trilinear
Anisotropy: 16x
Occlusion: enabled
Refraction: enabled
Volumetric: enabled
Tessellation: extreme

NoAA: FPS: 23.2 / Scores: 584 / Min FPS: 9.0 / Max FPS: 59.0
4xAA: FPS: 20.0 / Scores: 504 / Min FPS: 9.1 / Max FPS: 47.9
FXAA: FPS: 18.8 / Scores: 475 / Min FPS: 10.1 / Max FPS: 30.7

Strange... guess I'll retest with tess normal or something

[RealNC]

I guess FXAA is not very optimized on Linux. In Windows, with FXAA I take something like a 2FPS hit.

[Naib]

yup is has some issues.
AA (MSAA) off give 60FPS vsync which goes downto say 55 around HoN's water effect.
x8 AA gives ~ 40FPS which goes downto say 20 in big effects
FXAA give 20fps which goes downto like 6 when effects are going on

this is with a 9600 tho so I wonder if it isn't too good on older cards.



And as I mentioned the application override in nvidia-settings doesn't actually do that

[asdx]

Fuck nvidia, and all the idiots who support them.

[droste]

Fuck nvidia, and all the idiots who support them.

Seriously? You should stop swearing in every single post. This just makes you sound like a 13 year old child, who has nothing valuable to say. It does not help you to make your point, it just makes people ignore what you have to say and weakens your point. This is not meant to offend you, it's a sincere advice for you.