request: NVIDIA Drivers

[thechitowncubs]

Are the new drivers going to be backported or are they going to be in the official repos?

[jdong]

Is there some really good reason to backport it?


Being a kernel module in main and all, I don't like building it unless absolutely necessary :)

[Technoviking]

Is there some really good reason to backport it?


Being a kernel module in main and all, I don't like building it unless absolutely necessary :)
There are supposed to be some good speed increases, but I not sure if it is worth a backport. I will look it next week and see of the advantages or work mucking with the kernel.

Mike

[jdong]

well, I'm running a custom kernel, so I'll see about these "speed increases". Also, maybe power management improved? (hey, you can always be optimistic!)



As far as a backport... only when Breezy gets the new Nvidia.

[thechitowncubs]

Thanks for the replies... it would be nice, but not necessary.

[tommi]

i will also wait for a backport (laptop,gf2go, probs with 7174). Lets see, how long we will wait :)

[sinbad782]

There's a few nice new features in these drivers, such as support for GPU overclocking etc. via Coolbits - see:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=185&num=1

But again, it's probably not worth backporting these if there are going to be major problems elsewhere.

[sinbad782]

Oops - wrong link. Here's the right one:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=197&num=1

[codejunkie]

you could manually install the driver from nvidia im using it right now its working great i gained about 60fps :) and it fixed some screen painting issues with my card.
i just changed "nvidia" to "vesa" "nv" also works in the xorg.conf file restarted x with ctrl+alt+backspace removed nvidia-glx, linux-restricted-modules, and nvidia-settings installed the build-essential and kernel-headers package for my kernel, ctrl+alt+F1 then sudo su telinit 3 and killall gdm ran the installer when it finished changed /etc/X11/xorg.conf back to "nvidia" and it worked.
this might help somebody but don't blame me if something goes wrong cause what works for one might not work for the other.

[MaX]

Oops - wrong link. Here's the right one:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=197&num=1
not to be picky or anything, but use the edit post feature

[Cwiiis]

Is there some really good reason to backport it?


Being a kernel module in main and all, I don't like building it unless absolutely necessary :)
I'd like to request Ubuntu packages of the 6629 drivers - The 7xxx series causes an X hang for many people (see http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=31858) and using the existing 6629 packages (from morgue) forces you to use an old kernel. Especially as nvidia no longer support 'legacy' (Geforce 2 Ultra and below) cards after version 7174, it'd be very helpful to have a maintained set of 6629 drivers, for people that suffer from this problem and still want render acceleration.

As a side note, for people that think render acceleration is unnecessary, Battle for Wesnoth is almost unplayably slow on my Athlon 1.2ghz machine (Geforce 2 Ultra) without it. Not to mention it stopping me from possibly using the nice Composite features in the future...

[Gnobody]

Please backport this, I cannot manually install this in my chrooted enviroment. There are a ton of bug fixes and perfomance tweaks as well as OpenGL 2.0 support.

[jdong]

It's not in Breezy yet :(

I'll see what I can do :)

[jdong]

fabbione JohnDong: please do not backport the kernel or l-r-m

Sorry :(. Kernel modules are a pain to backport and maintain.