After a very slow summer, NVIDIA has finally rolled out an updated Linux proprietary display driver. The release highlights are quite extensive. However, as NVIDIA did not have the courtesy to allow for testing this driver in advance and right now we are out covering Intel's IDF, we do not have benchmarks to share. However, as time permits over the next day or two we hope to publish some new Linux NVIDIA GeForce 8800 benchmarks.
ler o resto aqui (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=846&num=1)

No artigo destaco a seguinte parte

(...) but with the huge change-list present for NVIDIA 100.14.19 we will be back in the coming days and weeks with benchmarks as we dissect this new driver closely.Claro que nem sempre quantidade é qualidade, mas cheira-me que os rapazes da nvidia ouviram o chamamento da AMD :)
Eu vou testa-los :D

vez esquiso foram estes que eu instalei.. com o envy

novidades do black windows bug?

continua black :D
enfim

NVIDIA XRender Performance

Towards the middle of last month, NVIDIA had released the 169.04 Beta Linux Driver (http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=11446). The change-log was quite lengthy and what we had discovered while benchmarking the GeForce 8 series (http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=11476) was that there were improvements to be found in this release and it was far more than a simple version bump. One of the reported changes for this driver release was "improved RENDER performance", and out of requests from readers and interest by the Linux desktop community at large, we have conducted XRender benchmarks using render_bench and have the NVIDIA results available today.

Patati, patata, vamos ao que interessa, benchmarks :D

http://www.phoronix.com/data/img/results/934/01.png

http://www.phoronix.com/data/img/results/934/02.png

http://www.phoronix.com/data/img/results/934/03.png

http://www.phoronix.com/data/img/results/934/04.png

http://www.phoronix.com/data/img/results/934/05.png

Agora a parte interessante:

No, the render_bench results for the NVIDIA 169.04 Beta driver are not missing. There is a phenomenal performance boost in the 169.04 Beta driver for the X Rendering Extension. Tests that previously took over a minute (or several minutes) to complete are now being hardware-accelerated properly and each took less than a second to complete. While the GeForce 8 OpenGL performance was also improved (http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=11476) with this driver, the XRender performance is a night and day difference. If NVIDIA continues with their normal release cycle, there should be another Linux driver release before year's end that will hopefully be a stable version of the 169.04 Beta driver.

phoronix praki, phoronix prakola, nice post :P

Patati, patata, novos drivers betas.

169.07

32 bits (http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_169.07.html)
64 bits (http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_169.07.html)

Release Highlights:
* Added support for GeForce 8800 GT, GeForce 8800 GTS 512 and GeForce 8800M.
* Added CUDA driver to .run file.
* Improved modesetting support on Quadro/GeForce 8 series GPUs.
* Fixed several X rendering issues.
* Fixed problems scrolling ARGB X drawables in Qt.
* Improved support for interlaced DVI, HDMI, and HDTV modesetting.
* Fixed stability problems with some GeForce 8 series GPUs.
* Fixed stability problems with some GeForce 6200/7200/7300 GPUs multi-core/SMP systems.
* Improved hotkey switching support for some Lenovo notebooks.
* Fixed a problem with Compiz after VT-switching.
* Improved RENDER performance.
* Improved interaction with Barco and Chi Mei 56" DFPs, as well as with some Gateway 19" DFPs.
* Added an interface to monitor PowerMizer state information.
* Fixed rendering corruption in Maya's Graph Editor.
* Improved interaction between SLI AFR and swap groups on certain Quadro FX GPUs.
* Fixed a bug that caused corruption with redirected XV on GPUs without TurboCache support.
* Improved display device detection on GeForce 8 series GPUs.
* Improved usability of NVIDIA-settings at lower resolutions like 1024x768 and 800x600.
* Improved GLX visual consolidation when using Xinerama with Quadro/GeForce 8 series and older GPUs.
* Added experimental support for running the X server at Depth 30 (10 bits per component) on Quadro G8x and later GPUs.
* Worked around a Linux kernel/toolchain bug that caused soft lockup errors when suspending on some Intel systems.

Já cá cantam, vou testa-los :>

Patati, patata, novos drivers betas.

169.07

32 bits (http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_169.07.html)
64 bits (http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_169.07.html)

Release Highlights:


Já cá cantam, vou testa-los :>


E que tal esquiso?

..se calhar também os vou testar....:cool:

São betas. Não aconselho.
Tenho a ideia que eles me lixaram as pseudo transparencias. Oh, well :)

São betas. Não aconselho.
Tenho a ideia que eles me lixaram as pseudo transparencias. Oh, well :)

Pois...ainda bem que avisas...vieste mesmo a tempo:P

Vou manter as anteriores....

Well, até pode ser rumor, mas é um rumor bom :D

According to an AIB partner, NVIDIA is planning an open-source counterattack against ATI/AMD. Since this past September, AMD has been increasingly open-source friendly with their Novell partnership to deliver the RadeonHD driver and releasing open specifications. We have received information that NVIDIA is reportedly planning an increased open-source presence. Does this mean a cleaner "nv" driver? Open specifications? Jointly working with the Nouveau developers? Open sourcing part(s) of their blob? It's not known just yet.

We are working on confirming this information and finding out additional details. However, by the sounds of it, don't expect to see anything sooner than Q3~Q4'08.

FONTE (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjI3NQ)

A ser verdade, peca por ser tarde. Mas ao menos, trabalham! :D

Wtf?
Tenho de ver se vou instalar o Ubuntu 7.10 no meu portatil e ver se isso resulta, porque a minha Go7300 deu barraca e so me safei com o Envy. E mesmo assim, efeitos esta um pouco de frosques...
Depois dou um toque para aqui para ver isso.

"Isso"? Essa série já é há muito suportada, sem problemas.
O Envy o que faz é usar os -mesmos- drivers e automatizar o processo, portanto, o problema não é dos drivers :)

Qual é o melhor método para instalar os últimos drivers disponíveis no site da NVIDIA ?

O Envy é aconselhável ?

Para quem não sabe, é aconselhavel.
Para quem quer saber, o processo generico para sistemas debian based é este (http://www.techzonept.com/showpost.php?p=2406480&postcount=58). Para outros sistemas, só muda onde estão os scripts :)

Para quem não sabe, é aconselhavel.
Para quem quer saber, o processo generico para sistemas debian based é este (http://www.techzonept.com/showpost.php?p=2406480&postcount=58). Para outros sistemas, só muda onde estão os scripts :)

Obrigado, ja tenho os 169.07 a funcionar, o Envy só me iria instalar no máximo os 100.14.23 =\

Ora oupas, mais drivers. 169.09. Só bug fixes :)

* Fixed a problem causing the fan on some GPUs to always run at full speed.
* Fixed a bug that caused the X driver to crash if the X.Org GLX extension module was loaded intead of NVIDIA’s.
* Improved the X driver’s awareness of the current notebook docking status.
* Fixed brightness control on HP Compaq notebooks.
* Fixed a bug in the Linux/i2c algorithm driver implementation that prevented core transfer types from succeeding.


32 bits (http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_169.09.html)
64 bits (http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_169.09.html)

Uhuhuhu, drivers secretos :D

Last night NVIDIA quietly uploaded a new Linux display driver to their FTP server. This new driver is tagged 171.05, while the latest public driver has been 169.09 (http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=11711). Having already three releases in the 169.xx series, this is a moderate update to 171.xx, but according to NVIDIA it's not for everyone. There is no official change-log that NVIDIA has published for the 171.05 driver, and the change-log that ships with the driver hasn't been updated (whether it be intentional or not). The only word that has come out of the NVIDIA camp on this new driver is from Christian Zander and he has said that this driver is only intended for use with the Tesla S870 GPU Computing Systems. The legacy NVIDIA Linux drivers have also been updated this week.
NVIDIA's Tesla S870 GPU computing system is designed for high-performance computing (HPC) environments and has a total of 6GB of dedicated video memory, which is shared by the four 128 processing core GPUs that make up the S870, and is all housed inside a 1U rackmount chassis. NVIDIA's Tesla was originally introduced in June of last year, but the 171.05 driver is the first Linux release to support the Tesla S870.

http://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id=987&image=nvidia_17105_settings

So far we noticed one change with the 171.05 driver and that is the introduction of a new NVIDIA utility, nvidia-smi. This utility is for the NVIDIA System Management Interface and provides system-state and diagnostic information. Nvidia-smi will dump this system information either as ASCII text or into an XML log. In addition to the output format, other arguments include -l for creating an infinite loop of nvidia-smi, -t for toggling the LED state, and -i for probing every specified number of seconds. According to the man page and the --help output, nvidia-smi is only designed for the NVIDIA Tesla S870. However, nvidia-smi had run with a GeForce 8 graphics card installed but with little information. Likewise, the 171.05 driver during our initial tests had worked just fine when using it in a non-Tesla environment.

http://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id=987&image=nvidia_17105_smi

We are continuing to explore the NVIDIA 171.05 driver package and if we come across anything else interesting about this release, we will be sure to pass it along. Likewise, you can try out this driver by heading on over to the NVIDIA FTP server (ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/171.05/) and then share your results in the Phoronix Forums (http://www.phoronix.com/forums/).
Also quietly surfacing from NVIDIA's Santa Clara offices this week are the Linux 96.43.05 (http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_x86_96.43.05.html) and 71.86.04 (http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_x86_71.86.04.html) display drivers. These are updates for NVIDIA's two legacy drivers, which offer product support for GPUs earlier than the GeForce 6 series. The 71.86.04 release offers improved compatibility for the latest X server, recent Linux 2.6 kernels, and SELinux-enabled systems. The release notes for the 96.43.05 driver consist of the same changes, but also improved GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap out-of-memory handling.
No Solaris 171.05 driver is yet available, but there is the 96.43.05 legacy update available. On the FreeBSD side there are no updates available for either the legacy drivers or the Tesla driver. In fact, NVIDIA has yet to even release a 169.09 driver for FreeBSD.


Eu vou testar :P

Posta resultados :P É por estas e por outras que próxima gráfica que compro é NVIDIA... ATI JAMÉ (pelo menos para desktop!)

Voces mt gostam de falar mal... "botar abaixo" é que é fixe, seja Microsoft, ATI, Intel, nVidia, qq coisa/marca serve. Basta ver este exemplo: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=978&num=1
Até dá vontade de rir...

Estes novos drivers 169.09 são uma tal banhada, no meu pc farta-se de crashar por isso. Até pensei que fosse outra coisa, mas mal tirei o nvidia e coloquei o nv, nunca mais tive problemas.

Muito maus mesmo, acho que são os piores que já tive

Estes novos drivers 169.09 são uma tal banhada, no meu pc farta-se de crashar por isso. Até pensei que fosse outra coisa, mas mal tirei o nvidia e coloquei o nv, nunca mais tive problemas.

Muito maus mesmo, acho que são os piores que já tive

Instalei esse driver e não me queixo, quando tive o ubuntu instalado e instalei os anteriores até metia dó olhar para o ecrã...:rolleyes:

Cumps

Instalei esse driver e não me queixo, quando tive o ubuntu instalado e instalei os anteriores até metia dó olhar para o ecrã...:rolleyes:

Cumps

E como é que instalaste? Via automatix ou qq coisa do genero?

Voces mt gostam de falar mal... "botar abaixo" é que é fixe, seja Microsoft, ATI, Intel, nVidia, qq coisa/marca serve. Basta ver este exemplo: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=978&num=1
Até dá vontade de rir...


Não é falar bem ou mal da ATI, mas penso que é inegável que o suporte para linux é claramente melhor por parte da NVIDIA.

Não é falar bem ou mal da ATI, mas penso que é inegável que o suporte para linux é claramente melhor por parte da NVIDIA.

Sim. É que não passa mesmo disso. Em termos técnicos é difícil dizer se ATI ou NVIDIA são melhores. São ambas a marca de ponta e têm placas topo de gama muito boas. O meu PC tinha uma placa ATI. Tive que a mudar porque a saída para TV estava avariada.

Até lancei a pergunta aqui no fórum "placa NVIDIA gama média, perto de €120, o melhor que houver para esses valores". Frisei bem que queria nvidia. Claro que não tardou "ah e tal! estes fundamentalistas agora têm a mania que tem que ser nvidia, que a ATI não presta, bla, bla, bla"... Mas, eu quero algo que seja funcional, não preciso de uma placa para grandes acelerações 3D. Bastava-me DVI, S-Video, e ser moderna.

O suporte da Nvidia para Linux é claramente muito melhor. E isso é inquestionável.

E como é que instalaste? Via automatix ou qq coisa do genero?

Simplesmente segui este
para slackware, no ubuntu usei 1 programa que agora não me lembro..

tutorial-->http://www.linuxnarede.com.br/artigos/fullnews.php?id=255 (http://www.linuxnarede.com.br/artigos/fullnews.php?id=255)

Sim. É que não passa mesmo disso. Em termos técnicos é difícil dizer se ATI ou NVIDIA são melhores. São ambas a marca de ponta e têm placas topo de gama muito boas. O meu PC tinha uma placa ATI. Tive que a mudar porque a saída para TV estava avariada.

Até lancei a pergunta aqui no fórum "placa NVIDIA gama média, perto de €120, o melhor que houver para esses valores". Frisei bem que queria nvidia. Claro que não tardou "ah e tal! estes fundamentalistas agora têm a mania que tem que ser nvidia, que a ATI não presta, bla, bla, bla"... Mas, eu quero algo que seja funcional, não preciso de uma placa para grandes acelerações 3D. Bastava-me DVI, S-Video, e ser moderna.

O suporte da Nvidia para Linux é claramente muito melhor. E isso é inquestionável.

Exacto... os drivers são melhores pelo menos actualmente. Não quer dizer que não mude. Mas na NVIDIA parece haver mais empenho em suportar Linux. Está bem que a ATI agora abriu a source do drivers fglrx (salvo erro!!) mas mesmo assim não sei não... uma placa gráfica é muito complexa e a não ser que abram as especificções técnicas todas também dúvido que a comunidade possa fazer grandes melhoramentos.

Simplesmente segui este
para slackware, no ubuntu usei 1 programa que agora não me lembro..

tutorial-->http://www.linuxnarede.com.br/artigos/fullnews.php?id=255 (http://www.linuxnarede.com.br/artigos/fullnews.php?id=255)


Eu instalar sei :-D

Pensei que tinhas utilizado outro método ou programa que fizesse algo de diferente, pelo que tenho falado com pessoal que também tem slack, confirmaram que esta versão dá muitos problemas, e são mesmo problemas da gráfica e não do slack }>

Ja repararam que a NVIDIA agora apresenta os drivers 169.07 em vez dos 169.09 ?

Ja repararam que a NVIDIA agora apresenta os drivers 169.07 em vez dos 169.09 ?

Por acaso não tinha reparado! =S

No site estão as:


Linux Display Driver - x86

Version: 169.09
Operating System: Linux x86
Release Date: January 21, 2008

No site estão as:



Unix Drivers

Graphics Drivers

Linux IA32
Latest Version: 169.07 (http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_169.07.html)
Latest Legacy GPU version (1.0-71xx series): 71.86.04 (http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_x86_71.86.04.html)
Latest Legacy GPU version (1.0-96xx series): 96.43.05 (http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_x86_96.43.05.html)
Archive (http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_archive.html)



http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html

Mas por http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
vais ter a: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_169.09.html

:confused:

Mas por http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
vais ter a: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_169.09.html

:confused:


weird :S

mas eu nao metia a versao 169.09

Não sei de que se queixam tanto..eu ja tive a 169.07 a 169.09 e a 171.05 e nunca tive problemas..alias agora que estou com o ubuntu 8.04 até tenho as 169.09.

Eu não meto nada... faço pacman -Syu e tá a andar :)
169.09 aqui e não notei difs nem pra melhor nem pra pior.

Para quem anda de volta disto, os driver 169.04 e doravante tem bugs no Half-Life 1 e derivados (Counter Strike, p.e.). A solução passa por usar os drivers da série 100.14.xx. :)

-poim- Novos drivers :)

Release Highlights

* Improved power management support with GeForce 8 GPUs.
* Further improved stability on some GeForce 8 GPUs.
* Fixed a bug that broke certain TwinView configurations with TV-OUT on GeForce 8 GPUs.
* Fixed a bug that could cause OpenGL to crash in certain cases, e.g. when running Counter-Strike under Wine.
* Further improved GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap out-of-memory handling.
* Fixed a bug that could result in incorrect PowerMizer state being reported.
* Improved nvidia-xconfig behavior when updating X configuration files without a "Module" section.
* Worked around a problem that caused function key presses on some Toshiba notebooks to result in system crashes.


x86 Download (http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_169.12.html)
x86_64 Download (http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_169.12.html)

Destaco o facto de finalmente o bug do HL + WINE estar resolvido :D

Realmente tenho que testar isso do CS.

Bem, uns novos drivers beta, 173.08. Tenho que dizer que acho que não via tantas mudanças desde há algum tempo.

The new NVIDIA products supported by this 173.08 binary driver update include the GeForce 8400, 8400GS, 9500M GS, 9600GT, 9800GTX, and 9800GX2. The GeForce 9600GT has actually been supported since the previous release when we had reviewed the GeForce 9600GT 512MB on Linux (http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=12088). The big product support additions are just for the mobile GeForce 9 GPUs and the GeForce 9800 series. On the workstation side, the Quadro FX 3600M and Quadro FX 4600/5600 SDI and Quadro G-Sync II are now supported by this Linux driver.

This x86/x86_64 driver release now allows OpenGL rendering to extend beyond 4096 pixels wide for GeForce 8/9 graphics cards, which was an earlier limitation of this driver. OpenGL rendering should also now be fixed of corruption issues when using textured compressed with the DXT5 algorithm. On the display side, this release has a fix for a regression that had made its way into the recent NVIDIA driver releases that had caused invalid EDID information to be parsed on some notebook displays. There is also a fix in this 173.08 driver that caused a DVI synchronization issue for GeForce 8/9 GPUs.

Further enhancing the NVIDIA Linux mobile capabilities, there is also improved hot-key switching and power management support for some notebooks utilizing a GeForce 8 series GPU. One other bug that NVIDIA mentions is fixed is now being able to restore a console correctly when running SLI (Scalable Link Interface (http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=11147)) on older NVIDIA hardware and that attached secondary TVs should not be displayed in black and white. Last but not least, there is improved compatibility with recent Linux 2.6 kernels (Linux 2.6.25 kernel (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=Linux+2.6.25)).

This 173.08 Linux driver does include unofficial (and experimental) support for the latest pre-release X Server 1.5 (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjM3Nw) snapshots. However, in order to use this binary driver with the latest development X servers, you must add the -ignoreABI option when starting X and it's recommended that GLX is disabled from the xorg.conf. NVIDIA will push out full X Server 1.5 support once the video driver ABI for the forthcoming X.Org 7.4 (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=X.Org+7.4) is stabilized.

Download x86 (http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_173.08.html)
Download x86_64 (http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_173.08.html)

NVIDIA's last Linux display driver release was just shy of two months ago when they had unveiled the 173.08 Beta driver (http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=12188) with compatibility for the GeForce 9800 series and other new GeForce 9 parts. Prior to the 173.08 release was version 171.06 (http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=11982), which was another beta release, and the last official release being NVIDIA 169.12 (http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=11907) from February. NVIDIA this morning has released the 173.14.05 driver, which marks the return to their old naming convention, but it doesn't bring many changes compared to the recent beta releases and just a regurgitated release announcement.
The NVIDIA 173.14.05 driver brings support for the GeForce 8400, 8400GS, 9500M GS, 9600GS, 9600GSO, 9600GT, 9800GTX, and 9800GX2. On the workstation side, there is support for the Quadro FX 3600M, Quadro FX 5600/4600 SDI, and Quadro G-Sync II. This is the same support as what was found in the 173.08 release, and in some cases even earlier than that. Our review of the NVIDIA GeForce 9600GT (http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=12088) was done with the 171.06 driver.



http://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id=nvidia_1731405&image=nvidia_1731405_panel


The bug fixes in this release and the earlier betas are mostly for the GeForce 8 / GeForce 9 series. There are also a few regression fixes relating to the EDID data, OpenGL rendering corruption, and hotkey switching on notebooks.
The NVIDIA 173.14.05 does ship with "out of the box" support for the Linux 2.6.25 kernel (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjQzMg) and preliminary support for X.Org 7.4 (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=X.Org%2B7.4) / X Server 1.5. For those using a Linux 2.6.26-rc kernel (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=Linux%2B2.6.26), the NVIDIA 173.14.05 driver needs to be patched manually. While there is preliminary X.Org 7.4 support, the nvidia-xconfig utility isn't yet friendly towards the minimalist xorg.conf files and may cause problems depending upon the user configuration. Improvements to nvidia-xconfig will come in a future release.
The NVIDIA 173.14.05 x86 and x86_64 Linux drivers can be downloaded here (http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_173.14.05.html) and here (http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_173.14.05.html), respectively. The NVIDIA Solaris and FreeBSD drivers have also been updated against version 173.14.05 with many of the same changes.




From Phoronix (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia_1731405&num=1)

Boas noticias para o pessoal do fedora :)

Mais um update:

NVIDIA has released the 173.14.09 binary display driver. However, support for the GeForce GTX 200 series (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjUyNw) is not part of the change-log, unfortunately. This driver is just a bug-fix release for the recently released 173.14.05 (http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=12408). Though this driver does have the following fixes: aliased font rendering corruption on X.Org Server 1.5, display corruption problem driving two dual-link DFPs with the Quadro FX 1700, a regression that prevented the X driver from starting on some GeForce FX/6/7 series, and fixing a locale-interaction issue in the nvidia-settings parser. In addition, this release also has preliminary support for the Linux 2.6.26 kernel (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=2.6.26). To download the x86 and x86_64 NVIDIA Linux drivers, click here (http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_173.14.09.html) and here (http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_173.14.09.html), respectively.

@ Phoronix (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjUzMA)

"aliased font rendering corruption on X.Org Server 1.5"

E eu que o diga.. Problema finalmente resolvido no Arch 64bits

A nova versão do envy já suporta os drivers 173.14.05 :)
Muito bom para quem gosta que o processo seja todo automático, como eu :D

e como actualizar os drivers no ubuntu?

e como actualizar os drivers no ubuntu?

Um search ajudava (http://www.techzonept.com/showthread.php?t=287864).
Já agora, agradecia que as dúvidas fossem postas no local correcto :)

Realmente tenho que testar isso do CS.

Como +e que jogas CS no linux? 8| wine?

Como +e que jogas CS no linux? 8| wine?

Sim, é perfeitamente jogável.
http://appdb.winehq.org > podes ver aqui uma lista de programas compátiveis com o WINE :) Mas já é um bocado offtopic, continuar aqui (http://www.techzonept.com/showthread.php?t=218782), sff, caso haja mais comentários. Dúvidas, como sabem, é na secção correcta.

Nova versão do envyng já com os 173.14.09 nos repositórios do ubuntu :D

Upas

Yesterday KDE 4.1 (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjYzMA) was released and there are widely known 2D performance problems with the GeForce 8 and 9 series, which are especially exhibited when using the K Desktop Environment. So you think NVIDIA would address this issue in their next driver update? Guess again. Early this morning NVIDIA had released a new driver as version 173.14.12. This is the first NVIDIA Linux driver release in a month and a half, but its change-log is quite slim.

More information on NVIDIA's 2D performance problems can be read here in the forums (http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11044). From our testing of the driver thus far and with the feedback of others, it looks like this issue still hasn't been resolved nor is it mentioned in their release notes. What is, however, mentioned in their release note is fixing a problem with missing rendering in OpenGL workstation overlays, running some SDL applications and virtual terminal switching, addressing a potential crash in nvidia-settings when saving the X configuration file, and improving the error recovery paths in the case of corruption of the commands set to the GPU. In addition, there is added product support for the NVIDIA GeForce 8600GS. That's it for the official changes.

NVIDIA's FreeBSD and Solaris x86 drivers have been updated today to version 173.14.12 with the same set of changes.

NVIDIA's last driver release was on June 17 when releasing the 173.14.09 and 177.13 beta drivers (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjUzMA). The 173.14.09 driver just contained a few bug fixes along with Linux 2.6.26 kernel support. The 177.13 driver had added support for the GeForce GTX 200 series (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjUyNw).

With all of this said, we really haven't seen a "big" NVIDIA driver release in a few months now. Fortunately though, it looks like something of larger impact may be on the horizon for NVIDIA and Linux. Rumors have been flying around about a "Big Bang II" for NVIDIA's Windows drivers. NVIDIA's first Big Bang came when they had introduced Scalable Link Interface, but the Linux support for that hadn't arrived at the same time as Windows. Some of the possible highlights of Big Bang II could be OpenGL 3.0 support, transcoding support on the GPU, multi-monitor SLI support, and performance improvements. These would certainly be nice to see and with the shared code-base between all of NVIDIA's supported platforms (Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris) it certainly seems possible. We have been invited to NVISION 2008 (their first-ever graphics conference) but as of yet we don't know what Linux announcements they'll be making whether its related to an open-source strategy (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjU0NQ), Big Bang II, or something else.

The latest x86 and x86_64 NVIDIA Linux drivers can be downloaded from their Unix Drivers Portal (http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html).

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Hmmmm. Isto anda a ficar chato para estes lados :)

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Mal vi isto na página principal do TZ pensei "wow! Foram rápidos a resolver o problema com o KDE 4!", mas parece que ainda não...

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It has been a few weeks since NVIDIA last pushed out a Linux display driver update (173.14.12 (http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=12666)), but this morning already they have pushed out a new update. The just-released NVIDIA 177.67 display driver doesn't introduce OpenGL 3.0 support or any other major features, but it does look to resolve a number of bugs, provide improvements to the Render extension, add official support to the GeForce GTX 260/280 graphics cards, and a number of other improvements.


Back on June 16 NVIDIA had released the GeForce GTX 260 and GTX 280 (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjUyNw) graphics cards. These two PCI Express graphics cards are NVIDIA's new high-end solutions for consumers and the first in the GTX series. On the same day they had provided 2D-only open-source support (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjUyOQ) for the GTX 260/280 in their xf86-video-nv (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=xf86-video-nv) driver and later they had then released the 177.13 driver (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjUzMA) with beta support for these new GPUs. For the past two months this support has only been available through the beta driver, but the support has finally been christened today with the 177.67 official driver release.


Back in December NVIDIA had delivered major XRender improvements (http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=11522) for its binary driver. The performance of this X extension was improved significantly, as our benchmarks had shown. With the 177.67 driver are some additional Render extension improvements. This driver has improved support for Render masks and Render repeating modes and transformations for video memory pixmaps. Additionally, they have accelerated support for Render convolution filters for video memory pixmaps on the GeForce 8, 9, and GTX series.


In addition to the Render extension improvements, NVIDIA engineers hope to have addressed some of the stability problems found on the GeForce 8, 9, and GTX graphics processors. Some GeForce 6 and 7 PCI Express GPUs may also have improved stability.


ATI's binary fglrx driver has supported DisplayPort for several months. Now, however, that NVIDIA is pushing out DisplayPort-capable products, the NVIDIA driver has picked up this support too. The 177.67 driver supports DisplayPort display devices, including 30-bit devices.


http://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id=nvidia_17767&image=nvidia_17767_settings


NVIDIA engineers have worked out a bug that caused GPU errors when changing TwinView modes with Compiz enabled, improved the error recovery paths taken in case of GPU command stream corruption, removed an old workaround that caused fake Xinerama information to be reported, and fixed a problem that resulted in IRQs being disabled on some multi-GPU SMP systems. This driver has also added an AllowSHMPixmaps option to the driver, which is used for toggling whether applications can use shared memory pixmaps. While NVIDIA's newest graphics cards don't support XvMC (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NTc0OQ), this driver release does fix the sub-picture component order reported by the driver's XvMC (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=XvMC) implementation.


Last but not least, the NVIDIA 177.67 Linux driver works around a cache-flushing problem on some kernels that had caused corruption and stability problems. They have also added experimental support for PCI Express MSI and improved compatibility with recent Linux 2.6 kernels.


This is NVIDIA's biggest Linux driver update this summer, but it's sad to see they aren't providing any OpenGL 3.0 support (http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=12730) yet on Linux/FreeBSD/Solaris when they have already done so for Windows (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjY2MA). The improved stability is great along with the Render extension improvements, but in our initial tests of this new driver we have found that the render-bench test profile within the Phoronix Test Suite (http://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/) actually runs slower with this new driver. In addition, when using the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M (http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=12124) at least, it doesn't appear they have yet fixed the 2D performance problems (http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11044). It's about time they officially support the GeForce GTX 260/280 graphics cards on Linux as well as DisplayPort interfaces. Next week is their inaugural NVISION conference and hopefully there is more good news for Linux users coming out of that event.


NVIDIA's Linux, Solaris, and FreeBSD binary drivers can be downloaded here (http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html).




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Download:
32 bits (http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_177.67.html)
64 bits (http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_177.67.html)

Dois dias depois, mais bugs corrigidos:

Tuesday the NVIDIA 177.67 Display Driver (http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=12758) was released and then yesterday the ATI Catalyst 8.8 Driver (http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=12767) came out with OverDrive (http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=12775) and CrossFire (http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=12776) support. Today though we are back with another NVIDIA Linux driver release. Due to fallout from the 177.67 driver, NVIDIA has replaced it just two days later with the 177.68 Beta.


While the minor version was just bumped by one, this release has a fair number of changes. First off, the NVIDIA 177.67 driver has improved GPU memory management coordination between the X driver and OpenGL implementation, which NVIDIA claims will improve performance. Specifically, the performance should be boosted with the KDE4 OpenGL compositing manager. The previous release had introduced a number of enhancements to the RENDER extension in order to accelerate more operations and therefore provider greater performance, however, these changes were invasive. The 177.68 release will fix the RENDER corruption that was previously experienced on the GeForce 6 and 7 graphics processors.


http://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id=nvidia_17768&image=nvidia_17768_settings


Some of the other bugs that were fixed included GLXBadDrawable errors when running more than one OpenGL application with anti-aliasing (AA) enabled, GPU errors when killing the X server with an OpenGL application running, and dynamic display configuration to fail on GeForce 8/9/GTX GPUs failing when not attached to an X screen. The final official change in this release is added support for the GeForce 9700M GTS. The GeForce 9700M GTS is NVIDIA's newest graphics processor for next-generation gaming notebooks and does support Hybrid SLI (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjUwMg).


The x86 version of the NVIDIA 177.68 driver can be found here (ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/177.68/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-177.68-pkg1.run) along with the x86_64 version (ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/177.68/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-177.68-pkg2.run).




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E mais uns bugfixes:

Last week NVIDIA had released the NVIDIA 177.67 driver (http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=12758) and then immediately following that was the NVIDIA 177.68 driver (http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=12785) and now today marks the release of the NVIDIA 177.70 driver. Like the two former releases, the 177.70 release is another beta driver.

The NVIDIA 177.70 Linux driver doesn't have many changes to mention compared to the 177.67 and 177.68 releases but just a few bug-fixes. What exactly changed with this new release isn't mentioned, but we anticipate it to be a few more RENDER improvements and other minor fixes. There is no release page for this NVIDIA 177.70 Linux driver either, but it's just referenced in an NvNews Forum Thread (http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=118602) with the x86 (ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/177.70/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-177.70-pkg1.run) and x86_64 (ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/177.70/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-177.70-pkg2.run) download links.]

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The 177.68 release will fix the RENDER corruption that was previously experienced on the GeForce 6 and 7 graphics processors.
Já era sem tempo! espero que o suporte para OpenGL3 venha para breve

Já era sem tempo! espero que o suporte para OpenGL3 venha para breve

Não sei para quê tanta pressa se ainda nem apps a usar OGL3 existem :002:

acabei de experimentar o driver 177.70 na grafica BFG GTX280 e sinceramente apenas consigo por a funcionar o opengl... pois consigo confirmar isto atravez de alguns jogos que o usam, porque de resto para activar o compiz com efeitos 3d fico com ecrã em branco.

good news


Over the course of the past few months we have seen several NVIDIA Linux drivers that have all been marked as beta with the last official release appearing in April (http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=12188). Today though NVIDIA has released the 177.80 Linux driver, which is an official update and christens the changes made with the 177.67 (http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=12758), 177.68 (http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=12785), 170.70 (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjY4MA), 177.76 (http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=12865), and 177.78 (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Njc0OQ) beta drivers. Among the changes are RENDER extension improvements, finally officially supporting the GeForce GTX series, text rendering fixes, and there are 25 official changes in total.
The products to now be officially supported on Linux include the GeForce GTX 260 (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjUyNw), GTX 280 (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjUyOQ), 9800GTX+, 900GT, 9700M GTS, 9500GT, 8100P, nForce 780a SLI, nForce 750a SLI, Quadro FX 770M, Quadro NVS 160M, and Quadro NVS 150M. The GeForce GTX series was introduced back in June but it has taken nearly four months for this official support to arrive. This support was, however, present in the earlier beta releases. This binary-only Linux driver also now supports graphics cards with DisplayPort (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=DisplayPort) interfaces.
http://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id=nvidia_17780&image=nvidia_17780_settings
Also, present from earlier beta releases have been improvements to the X RENDER extension (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=RENDER). Newer NVIDIA GPUs now have faster RENDER acceleration along with support for convolution filters and other operations. Most notably, these improvements fix the 2D performance problems (http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11044) that have been plaguing newer GeForce series and commonly with the KDE 4.x (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=KDE+4) desktop environment.
While also a repeat from earlier betas, the NVIDIA 177.80 driver also has improved GPU memory management with better coordination between the X driver and OpenGL implementation, which improves performance with the KDE OpenGL compositing manager. Various regression fixes are also present when it comes to text rendering, the SLI Auto mode not functioning, system hangs, monitor workarounds, and more. There is also experimental PCI-E MSI support, X.Org 7.4 (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=X.Org+7.4) / X Server 1.5 (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=X+Server+1.5) support, and is compatible with newer versions of the Linux kernel.
For those using NVIDIA graphics on Linux, Solaris, or FreeBSD operating systems, head on over to the NVIDIA UNIX Portal (http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html) to download the latest driver release. The FreeBSD and Solaris drivers ship with a similar set of changes. NVIDIA's two legacy drivers -- the 1.0-71xx and 1.0-9xx series -- have yet to be updated with support for X.Org 7.4, Linux 2.6.27 (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=Linux+2.6.27), or any of these new bug-fixes.
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O que eu gostava mesmo muito, era de controlar o powermizer de maneira eficiente.

Ve isto (http://aldeby.org/blog/index.php/nvidia-powermizer-powersaving.html) a ver se ajuda :)

Em drivers recentes (ou pelo menos comigo) não funciona.
O mais que consigo fazer é activar/desactivar conforme esteja em bateria ou ligado à corrente.

Queria era controlar o nível máximo do powermizer quando estou em bateria.