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leclerc65
November 6th, 2012, 04:21 PM
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/06/nvidia_heralds_steam_for_linux/

mips
November 6th, 2012, 04:29 PM
/waits for forrestcupp's criticism of thread title :biggrin:

pqwoerituytrueiwoq
November 6th, 2012, 05:43 PM
This makes me a happy Geforce GTX 550 TI owner

forrestcupp
November 6th, 2012, 06:00 PM
Wow. What a deceptive article title. There's no way it actually doubles performance. ;)

Seriously, though. What are they comparing it to?

jerome1232
November 6th, 2012, 06:15 PM
Who cares, don't look a gift horse in the mouth!

Paqman
November 6th, 2012, 06:22 PM
Seriously, though. What are they comparing it to?

Nvidia's press releases page seems to be having a spazz, but according to Yahoo (I feel dirty for even visiting it):


Comparing 304.51 driver performance of 142.7 fps versus 310.14 driver performance of 301.4 fps in beta build of Left for Dead 2. All tests run on the same system using Intel Core i7-3930K CPU @ 3.20GHz with 8 GB memory, GeForce GTX 680 and Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit.

oldos2er
November 6th, 2012, 08:25 PM
So, how long until the new drivers make it to xorg-edgers?

Linuxratty
November 6th, 2012, 10:09 PM
So, how long until the new drivers make it to xorg-edgers?

Is this a trick question? :)

forrestcupp
November 6th, 2012, 11:23 PM
Who cares, don't look a gift horse in the mouth!

I had to oblige mips. ;)

sffvba[e0rt
November 6th, 2012, 11:24 PM
Now I wonder when ATI AMD are going to come to the party?


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drmrgd
November 6th, 2012, 11:46 PM
Just slightly off topic, but this article is completely bogus. They make it sound like a full release of Steam for all Linux users is available. That's clearly not the case. Their time frames are all messed up.

I don't know much about the video driver component, although if true, I'd love to see what they'll do for my 670GTX GPU.

sffvba[e0rt
November 6th, 2012, 11:49 PM
Just slightly off topic, but this article is completely bogus. They make it sound like a full release of Steam for all Linux users is available. That's clearly not the case. Their time frames are all messed up.

I don't know much about the video driver component, although if true, I'd love to see what they'll do for my 670GTX GPU.

Disagree... this is what you read into it. However the beta for Steam on linux has begun so good luck to the lucky few that get to try it out first.


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drmrgd
November 7th, 2012, 12:00 AM
Yeah, fair enough. I re-read the article, and maybe I was a bit hasty. It just seemed to me that for those who didn't know better, they'd be spending some time trying to figure out how to install what is really not widely available quite yet.

Anyway....as you were :D

forrestcupp
November 7th, 2012, 01:42 AM
Yeah, fair enough. I re-read the article, and maybe I was a bit hasty. It just seemed to me that for those who didn't know better, they'd be spending some time trying to figure out how to install what is really not widely available quite yet.

Anyway....as you were :D

There's got to be some BS in there somewhere. :)

Merk42
November 7th, 2012, 03:37 AM
Was this part of the updates today that completely broke all proprietary drivers for my 550 Ti?
Using Nouveau in the meantime, but it's so nerfed it feels like I don't even have a graphics card.

mag1strate
November 7th, 2012, 04:13 AM
I really hope AMD starts pushing out better drivers too. There cards are so nice when they work...

lz1dsb
November 7th, 2012, 01:34 PM
I really hope AMD starts pushing out better drivers too. There cards are so nice when they work...
I hope the same... I'm qute unsatisfied AMD video card user...

mips
November 8th, 2012, 08:07 AM
I had to oblige mips. ;)

I always knew I could depend on you :D

oldos2er
November 8th, 2012, 07:14 PM
Was this part of the updates today that completely broke all proprietary drivers for my 550 Ti?
Using Nouveau in the meantime, but it's so nerfed it feels like I don't even have a graphics card.

The drivers are in quantal-proposed, if anyone besides me didn't know this already.

Jakin
November 8th, 2012, 07:53 PM
I hope the same... I'm qute unsatisfied AMD video card user...

I'm using AMD drivers on 12.10 amd64, they are working fine, and the system is running quite cool (36*C idle) i have thrown a few games at it, stays cool- youtube accelerated playback causes a spike in temperature (somewhere in the 60s), but afterwards immediantly cools back to the high 30s. For me this is a vast improvement of what i had on 12.04.
Now.. lets see how that holds up when steam comes my way ;)
I have no graphical issues either, im using KDE, but it seemed to be running just as well in Unity.

Also, 36*C idle is better than what im getting on win7 (an idle of about 41*C)

tjeremiah
November 9th, 2012, 05:11 PM
I'm using AMD drivers on 12.10 amd64, they are working fine, and the system is running quite cool (36*C idle) i have thrown a few games at it, stays cool- youtube accelerated playback causes a spike in temperature (somewhere in the 60s), but afterwards immediantly cools back to the high 30s. For me this is a vast improvement of what i had on 12.04.
Now.. lets see how that holds up when steam comes my way ;)
I have no graphical issues either, im using KDE, but it seemed to be running just as well in Unity.

Also, 36*C idle is better than what im getting on win7 (an idle of about 41*C)

what program you use to get those temp. readings from the card?

Paqman
November 9th, 2012, 07:32 PM
Also, 36*C idle is better than what im getting on win7 (an idle of about 41*C)

That discrepancy is only about 10%, so could well be down to the accuracy of whatever is measuring it.

wiebeest
November 9th, 2012, 07:40 PM
It seems that Phoronix is quite positive about the performance with this new driver:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia_r310_linux&num=1

pqwoerituytrueiwoq
November 9th, 2012, 11:32 PM
It seems that Phoronix is quite positive about the performance with this new driver:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia_r310_linux&num=1
how do i enable multi-thread in 310.14?
i don't see any improvement on my 550 ti with heaven 3.0

Jakin
November 10th, 2012, 03:27 AM
what program you use to get those temp. readings from the card?


aticonfig --odgt

@paqman, you are probably right :)

I might contribute a big part of this to the 3.5 kernel in Quantal, but it didn't run quite this cool til actually adding the proprietary driver; And per my experience, this is far cooler than in Precise.

smellyman
November 10th, 2012, 09:54 AM
any idea on which cards will be helped by these optimizatioins?

My 440 for instance....

newbie2
November 10th, 2012, 11:59 AM
...the beta for steam on linux has begun so good luck to the lucky few that get to try it out first.

steam for linux launches its beta; 60,000 sign up in first week (http://news.yahoo.com/steam-linux-launches-beta-60-000-sign-first-183600349.html)
:p

Swagman
November 10th, 2012, 01:23 PM
Has anyone elses splash screen on bootup become.... ugly ?

It's like the "ubuntu" writing is a bitmap but has been enlarged. (Jaggies)

looks horrible

4th guy
November 10th, 2012, 02:53 PM
I got an ascii version of the boot screen, and I've had it since installing the nvidia-current-updates package.

pqwoerituytrueiwoq
November 11th, 2012, 12:11 AM
Has anyone elses splash screen on bootup become.... ugly ?

It's like the "ubuntu" writing is a bitmap but has been enlarged. (Jaggies)

looks horrible
http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Fix-the-Big-and-Ugly-Plymouth-Logo-in-Ubuntu-10-04-140810.shtml
to get a valid resolution run this command

sudo hwinfo --framebuffer | grep "24 bits"

Swagman
November 11th, 2012, 12:54 PM
http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Fix-the-Big-and-Ugly-Plymouth-Logo-in-Ubuntu-10-04-140810.shtml
to get a valid resolution run this command

sudo hwinfo --framebuffer | grep "24 bits"

Thanks but I got


hwinfo: command not found

After running that. The link did remind me how I fixed that glitch in Lucid though <--- I'm getting old. I remember having that glitch but not how I fixed it !!

So.. The question is...

Are those commands still valid for Quantal or has something changed in the meantime ?

Yeah, the answer is "suck it and see" but if someone already knows before I bite the bullet it would be much appreciated before I fiddle about !!

jerome1232
November 11th, 2012, 11:27 PM
You might want to install it then try again


sudo apt-get install hwinfo

Swagman
November 12th, 2012, 02:56 AM
Sorry, I (wrongly) assumed hwinfo was part of the o/s

I haven't rebooted yet but after installing hwinfo and running that coomand again I got



paul@Main-Computer:~$ sudo hwinfo --framebuffer | grep "24 bits"
process 3801: arguments to dbus_move_error() were incorrect, assertion "(dest) == NULL || !dbus_error_is_set ((dest))" failed in file ../../dbus/dbus-errors.c line 282.
This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library.
libhal.c 3483 : Error unsubscribing to signals, error=The name org.freedesktop.Hal was not provided by any .service files
Mode 0x030f: 320x200 (+1280), 24 bits
Mode 0x0312: 640x480 (+2560), 24 bits
Mode 0x0315: 800x600 (+3200), 24 bits
Mode 0x0318: 1024x768 (+4096), 24 bits
Mode 0x031b: 1280x1024 (+5120), 24 bits
Mode 0x0333: 320x400 (+1280), 24 bits
Mode 0x0336: 320x240 (+1280), 24 bits
Mode 0x033e: 640x400 (+2560), 24 bits
Mode 0x034a: 1600x1200 (+6400), 24 bits
Mode 0x0361: 1280x800 (+5120), 24 bits
paul@Main-Computer:~$


[edit]

After reboot it's still

Dissssssssss

Gusting !!

pqwoerituytrueiwoq
November 12th, 2012, 03:26 AM
both x and y of the resolution must be equal to or less than your screen resolution
you have to follow each step in the guide (step 5 is now sudo update-grub )
and steps 1, 4 , 5, and 6 have to be run in a terminal so it can prompt for password

Swagman
November 12th, 2012, 12:52 PM
Fixed

If anyone else is suffering this issue bite the bullet and edit the scripts as per http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Fix-the-Big-and-Ugly-Plymouth-Logo-in-Ubuntu-10-04-140810.shtml

Which was recommended in an earlier post. It's all still relevant but you have to run it all in a terminal as alt+F2 now opens dash "run a command" and you can't get any joy with it

Well, I can't !!

Might play aound with it a bit more though as I run 1920 x 1200 and I set it at 1280 x 1024

Still looks considerably better than it did and as a bonus I can't see all the error messages whilst it's booting anymore (again) !!

lol