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New NVidia drivers.
« on: 2 July 2004, 23:00 »
Since no one posted this before:
 
NVIDIA Linux Display Driver 1.0-6106

* Added support for GeForce 6800 series of GPUs
* Added support for PCI-Express
* Added support for GLSL (OpenGL Shading    Language).
* Added support for GL_EXT_pixel_buffer_object.
* Fixed problem that prevented 32-bit kernel driver from running on certain AMD64 CPUs.
* Added support for ACPI
* Added support for 4kstack kernels.
* Added configuration utility "nvidia-settings".
* Added a shell script "nvidia-bug-report.sh" that gathers system configuration information into a log file; the resulting log file (nvidia-bug-report.log) should be included when reporting bugs to NVIDIA.
* Added a new Xv adaptor on GeForce4 and GeForce FX which uses the 3D engine to do Xv PutImage requests.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux.html
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New NVidia drivers.
« Reply #1 on: 2 July 2004, 23:32 »
Nice release.     Luckily this fixes Fedora Core 2.  Plus the other new features seem cool.  A question...how would I upgrade from an earlier one?  Would I have to remove the old one first?
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New NVidia drivers.
« Reply #2 on: 3 July 2004, 00:15 »
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Originally posted by WMD:
Nice release.         Luckily this fixes Fedora Core 2.  Plus the other new features seem cool.  A question...how would I upgrade from an earlier one?  Would I have to remove the old one first?


It will remove the old one for you.

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« Reply #3 on: 3 July 2004, 01:45 »
Good, good!  Oh, and I have a screenshot of the new settings program.  :cool:

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« Reply #4 on: 3 July 2004, 03:29 »
HOLY SHIT!

I was waiting for this. I'll install it tomorrow and see if they updated glx, because when I was compiling Tux Racer, it said that the module was outdated. And I didn't know if the new module from Mesa was going to hurt the drivers.

But fuck, this is so great, esspacially the new settings panel. nVidia makes good software, but the Linux driver was configured only by a conf file. Not anymore  ;)
Oh, and added support for ACPI is also a plus. I hope they finally fixed that bug that would lock up Linux when you use the videocard too intensively. But I'm sure they fixed it, because nVidia really kicks too much ass.
This is hopefully going to attract more clients that use professional 3D rendering. These clients need the fitting computers to run their Linux with Maya (or something else), so they choose nVidia because it provides Linux with the best drivers ever.
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« Reply #5 on: 3 July 2004, 20:15 »
Makes you wonder whether ATI for linux for will ever catch up.
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