Those penguin lovin' people at nvidia have released some new drivers for linux.....and for IA64 and ....wait for it.....AMD64, yes thats right a nvidia hammer driver....I can't wait to get my hands on one (or two) of them babies :-)

IA32
Version: 1.0-4191
Release Date: Dec 11 2002
Release Highlights
* OpenGL 1.4 with CineFX architecture support
* Support for AGP 8x and nForce2 IGP
* Support for index overlays on Quadro4 to support legacy applications
* Support for separate X screens on a nView enabled GPUs
* GLX 1.3 support

IA64
Version: 1.0-4050
Release Date: Dec 11 2002
Release Highlights
* OpenGL 1.4 with CineFX architecture support
* Improved SPEC Viewperf performance by up to 20%
* GLX 1.3 support

Athlon 64
Version: 1.0-4180
Release Date: Dec 11 2002
Release Highlights
* First publicly available Athlon 64 graphics driver
* OpenGL 1.4 with CineFX architecture support
* GLX 1.3 support

I have installed it, but it makes X windows really slugish. Does anyone else have this problem? I run both Redhat 8 and gentoo.
I was wondering if it was just me or some of you have same problems too.

I just installed them on my Mandrake 9.0 system and it has improved performance, graphics are sharper and everything. I love it, maybe your XF86Config-4 file might be messed up? Check that maybe. Otherwise I'm not sure.

Have no problems with it, works beautifully.

Working fine here, did you install from the tarballs or rpm?

Sluggish here too on RH 7.3. I've been using the Nvidia supplied driver (gzipped tarball) since 1.0-1251 and this is the first one that slowed the system down (PIII 1Ghz 512MB.)

Speck

I just installed them from tarball, and they work,,, but X is really really slow, and 2d graphics keep getting corrupted (ugly black streaks over toolbars and menus etc). As for 3d performance, it has improved quite a bit UT2K3 is quite a bit faster!

For now I've switched back to 3123.

If anyone finds a solution please post it here

RefriedBean

Thia is what exactly happens to me.

well I use 3123, built on Slack 8.1

maybe I will try them,

I'm about ready for some more punishment.

I heard in an other forum that the slowness problem is suppressed when not using a background image on the desktop.

I am not at home right now and cannot test it.

Can someone here confirm this?

I just tried it, works fine

I have kde running with a background image on the current desktop I made from kstars 1600x1200. menu transparency using XRenderer

Also, I tried UT 2003 and it works good


the mouse works fine on the desktop, and windows move around good , etc...

Hi,
could you post the main parts of your XF86Config to see which nvidia options you set?

ok,


the parts I changed were ..

#Load "dri"


#Driver "nv"
Driver "nvidia"

Um, where did u see that? Which forum?

Anyways this is part of my XF86COnfig.

Section "Device"
# no known options
Identifier "NVIDIA GeForce 4 (generic)"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA GeForce 4 (generic)"
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce 4 (generic)"
Option "NvAGP" "1"
Option "DigitalVibrance" "2"
Option "CursorShadow" "on"
Option "RenderAccel" "on"
EndSection

In the new driver manual, it said to RenderAccel is off by default so you need to put it on if you want perfoemance enhancement.

Option "RenderAccel" "on"

that made it not render very well