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sgfxi :: nvidia new beta 177.78
sgfxi -co 177.78
This apparently fixes that 2d regression in 177.76 release notes here: www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=120052 Back to top |
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installed on sidux-erebus tracking testing since 18-sep-2008, up-to-date.
Nvidia 177.78 seems to work OK. No visible changes since the last upgrade, 177.76, though I'm sure there are changes under the covers. Or maybe I just haven't run into them. :: Code :: Host/Kernel/OS "erebus82" running Linux 2.6.26-1-686 i686 [ sidux 2008-02 Έρεβος - xfce - (200806252056) ]
CPU Info (1) Intel Core2 Duo E4500 @ 2048 KB cache flags( sse3 lm ) clocked at [ 1200.000 MHz ] (2) Intel Core2 Duo E4500 @ 2048 KB cache flags( sse3 lm ) clocked at [ 1200.000 MHz ] Videocard nVidia G72 [GeForce 7300 SE] X.Org 1.4.2 [ 1440x900@50.0hz ] Network cards Realtek RTL8101E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller, at port: d800 Processes 139 | Uptime 8:54 | Memory 444.2/2027.4MB | HDD ATA WDC WD1600JS-00M Size 164GB (47%used) | GLX Renderer GeForce 7300 SE/7200 GS/PCI/SSE2 | GLX Version 2.1.2 NVIDIA 177.78 | Client Shell | Infobash v3.01 richard@erebus82:~$ < Edited by Richard :: Sep 29, 08, 13:21 > Back to top |
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Also working fine (so far) here:
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$ infobash -v Host/Kernel/OS "antiX-7.5" running Linux 2.6.26-3.slh.4-sidux-686 i686 [ Debian etch/lenny ] CPU Info (1) AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4200+ clocked at [ 1000.000 MHz ] (2) AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4200+ clocked at [ 1000.000 MHz ] Videocard nVidia GeForce 8400 GS X.Org 1.4.2 [ 1024x768 @50hz ] Processes 92 | Uptime 3days | Memory 238.8/3043.1MB | HDD Size 480GB (13%used) | GLX Renderer GeForce 8400 GS/PCI/SSE2/3DNOW! | GLX Version 2.1.2 NVIDIA 177.78 | Client Shell | Infobash v2.67 Back to top |
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Working here so far.
:: Code :: infobash -v
Host/Kernel/OS "home" running Linux 2.6.26-5.slh.6-sidux-686 i686 [ sidux 2008-01 Νυξ - kde-full - (200804120009) ] CPU Info (1) AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5200+ clocked at [ 2700.000 MHz ] (2) AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5200+ clocked at [ 2700.000 MHz ] Videocard nVidia GeForce 8500 GT X.Org 1.4.2 [ 1680x1050@64.0hz ] Processes 122 | Uptime 1day | Memory 507.7/3043.1MB | HDD Size 500GB (21%used) | GLX Renderer GeForce 8500 GT/PCI/SSE2/3DNOW! | GLX Version 2.1.2 NVIDIA 177.78 | Client Shell | Infobash v3.01 Back to top |
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Mildly curious. infobash (even -v3) does not display information about nvidia glx level on my sidux (current updates yesterday) system.
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I can confirm that, but it's not a change in infobash, it's something else, I have some older working copies and I did a diff on them and the new one, nothing of importance changed.
But I am also not getting any nvidia output. Back to top |
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The failure of infobash was because a component of xorg that smxi is not currently testing for correctly failed to register in smxi, thus making smxi fail to notify the user that they needed to reinstall nvidia because of an xorg update.
This is an smxi bug, and I'll see if I can track it down, this test should have worked without exception, but it's failing, thus giving hte illusion that nvidia did not need to get reinstalled. So when you don't see glx information in infobash, this means that you needed to reinstall nvidia. The reason I didn't catch this before is because I run dual monitors on my main test install, and in the past, dual monitors failed to work without the nvidia driver, but now it looks it is working, either because of xorg's improved abilities, or because xinerama is working better. Hard to say. <updated>As I suspected, when I converted the script over to use all apt tools, I neglected to check for the installed status of the xorg packages, and instead was checking the candidate status, which of course is always the same pre and post du. Back to top |
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:: techAdmin wrote ::
This is an smxi bug, and I'll see if I can track it down, this test should have worked without exception, but it's failing, thus giving hte illusion that nvidia did not need to get reinstalled. So when you don't see glx information in infobash, this means that you needed to reinstall nvidia. <updated>As I suspected, when I converted the script over to use all apt tools, I neglected to check for the installed status of the xorg packages, and instead was checking the candidate status, which of course is always the same pre and post du. Don't understand completely. nvidia was reinstalled at each of the last two smxi runs. Back to top |
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then we appear to have different issues.
There was a bug, but if you reinstalled nvidia each time, you should see the infobash output for glx / nvidia information. Beyond this I can't say, you may have found your very own bug. Run: glxinfo if it shows a bunch of stuff, with nvidia running, on top, it's all working well, and it's an infobash bug, if it doesn't show nvidia running at top, and it's not a long list, then your nvidia install didn't go right somehow. Back to top |
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:: techAdmin wrote :: then we appear to have different issues.
There was a bug, but if you reinstalled nvidia each time, you should see the infobash output for glx / nvidia information. Beyond this I can't say, you may have found your very own bug. Run: glxinfo if it shows a bunch of stuff, with nvidia running, on top, it's all working well, and it's an infobash bug, if it doesn't show nvidia running at top, and it's not a long list, then your nvidia install didn't go right somehow. glxinfo has lots of references to NVIDIA Maybe the cutover to smxi-aptitude missed something. Per dpkg I'm at infobash 3.02, nvidia OpenGL173.14.12. Since I don't need to rely infobash, it's a trivial problem. Thanks for the info. Back to top |
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