After the today's update, where my athon kernel and the nvidia drivers were updated, 3D became very, very slow. 3Ddiag shows everything is fine, the nvidia splash screen comes up on restarting X, everything looks ok, except speed went through the toilet. Tried the nvidia-update script. It tries to compile new drivers but fails. The log says that the gcc version used to compile the kernel is different than the gcc version I have. And yes, I did reboot. I have SuSE pro 8.2. geforce2 mx400. Every single package on my system is from SuSE, and it's either original or updated through YOU. Someone else out there having the same problem? Did SuSE fumble this update? Can someone tell me how to fix this problem? My sanity depends on solving this. I can't play nwn at these speeds... :-{
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 12 August 2003 22:22, Adalberto Castelo wrote:
After the today's update, where my athon kernel and the nvidia drivers were updated, 3D became very, very slow. 3Ddiag shows everything is fine, the nvidia splash screen comes up on restarting X, everything looks ok, except speed went through the toilet.
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Someone else out there having the same problem? Did SuSE fumble this update? Can someone tell me how to fix this problem?
SuSE has absolutely nothing to do with the nvidia drivers...they're closed-source, so you need to holler at nvidia, because I've seen some few other posts from folks having trouble using the newest nvidia drivers too. Me...I think I'll wait and watch and see if something gets fixed or changed on nvidia's end before I update mine. I might not even do it then, since the ones I'm using now work just fine (4363 IIRR). John -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3rc2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Od8TH5oDXyLKXKQRAmHVAJ45drAm14WJDuED+IyCQiSKGoBtngCgumfB RIn94NVurEYfjTPE6KATmHI= =8t3A -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Wednesday 13 August 2003 02:47 am, John wrote: [...]
Someone else out there having the same problem? Did SuSE fumble this update? Can someone tell me how to fix this problem?
SuSE has absolutely nothing to do with the nvidia drivers...they're closed-source, so you need to holler at nvidia, because I've seen some few other posts from folks having trouble using the newest nvidia drivers too. Me...I think I'll wait and watch and see if something gets fixed or changed on nvidia's end before I update mine. I might not even do it then, since the ones I'm using now work just fine (4363 IIRR).
John =============
It's pretty simple, from what I have read in the Readme files. If you are using 2.4.20-86 or -96 now with a successful Nvidia setup, then the newer -100 kernel build will continue to work with them. You might have to reinstall your Nvidia rpms to do that, but if they work now, they will continue to work after the update. From what I gather from the security announcement, if there was a choice you could make, it should be the kernel and not the 3D on the Nvidia anyway! Bombard Nvidia with many mails and complaints, as they are the ones causing the problems with your graphics card of choice. Get them to cooperate with the open source guys and many of your Nvidia complaints will go away or just simply quit supporting them with your purchases. That usually speaks pretty loudly to them, reduced revenue incoming. Pat -- --- KMail v1.5.3 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.2 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...
Solution and some clarifications. First of all, the nvidia drivers were working after the kernel update, they just were very slow. Second, YOU selected the nvidia update automatically, I didn't choose it myself. I'm not sure what the problem was with the speed. But the reason I wasn't being able to update is that I was using something called /usr/bin/nvidia-installer, which seems to get installed when you download the nvidia driver package and executes it for the first time, and stays there as a form of doing later updates. That's what I had been using for the last two updates, IIRC. After I couldn't make it work this time, I downloaded the new drivers manually (the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run file) directly from nvidia. That did work (after recompiling the drivers). Checking /usr/bin shows me that it also installed a new nvidia-installer app. Now I'm back to decent speeds and back to nwn (just in time too, today I got Shadows of Undrentide from tux games :) So, there you go. If you're having problems with nvidia and the new kernel, don't trust YOU or your existing nvidia-installer. Download the whole thing from nvidia. Thanks to those who tried to help. Adalberto
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