Steven Harms » nvidia http://www.sharms.org/blog Life, Linux and Technology Sun, 28 Aug 2011 18:02:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 New NVidia driver out http://www.sharms.org/blog/2009/03/new-nvidia-driver-out/ http://www.sharms.org/blog/2009/03/new-nvidia-driver-out/#comments Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:27:18 +0000 sharms http://www.sharms.org/blog/2009/03/30/new-nvidia-driver-out/
  • Open Source RadeonHD driver 1.2.2 released
  • The non-free driver post
  • ATI + Compiz
    • ]]>     NVidia Graphics

    NVidia released a new stable driver today. You can download it here. A lot of fixes in this one, especially for their hardware video decoding, VDPAU. Also it fixes KDE4 Plasma OpenGL crashes, X server crashes, and crashes with redirected OpenGL.

    Sounds good to me.

    Update: Just installed the driver, and it also fixes a World Of Goo issue I had where it wouldn’t run under Jaunty AMD64. It now runs, and runs awesome!

    wordofgoo

    Related posts:

    1. Open Source RadeonHD driver 1.2.2 released
    2. The non-free driver post
    3. ATI + Compiz

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  • New NVidia driver out
  • Secret Formula of Linux Compatible Hardware
  • AMD rocking
    • ]]>     My desktop has been feeling quite sluggish lately, so I decided to do a test.

    Current system:

    • AMD X2 4800+
    • 4GB Ram
    • ATI 3870 PCI-E Video Card
    • FGLRX driver

    My old system:

    • AMD XP 2800+
    • 1GB Ram
    • Nvidia 6600GT AGP Video Card
    • Nvidia Driver

    The difference, using them both side by side, is pretty drastic. The old system just blows away my new system. I can barely scroll in firefox, and switching tabs takes like 1.5-2 seconds on my new system, on the old system it flies. Also full screen video can’t be done without major choppyness on new system, but the old one works awesome.

    I think I am going to have to replace the video card in the new system, because I can barely use Linux with this card, even with compiz disabled. Or just deal with it until open source drivers make more headway (although with the Xorg people being so grumpy towards the radeonhd people, who knows when that will happen).

    Related posts:

    1. New NVidia driver out
    2. Secret Formula of Linux Compatible Hardware
    3. AMD rocking

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