I posted this one because, I tried this in my NvidiaGeforce 7300gt
This graphic card has a very slow acceleration playing you tube video with 720p in full screen
After loading the beta driver and tried it in you tube using 720p in full screen, the improvement is very noticeable.
The video now is smooth on a 46" samsung tv connected via dvi to hdmi cable.
The video card is connected to an old Pentium 4 asus p4g8x pc AGP slot.
Release highlights since 290.10:
[ul]
[li] Added support for the following GPU:
[/li]> [list][li] Tesla X2090
[/li]> [/ul][li] Fixed an OpenGL bug where using display lists on Fermi-based GPUs could result in missing rendering in some cases.
[/li]> [li] Fixed an OpenGL bug that caused incorrect rendering when using framebuffer objects to render to 16-bit color textures with alpha.
[/li]> [li] Fixed two bugs that caused sporadic application crashes in some multi-threaded OpenGL applications.
[/li]> [li] Fixed a bug that caused creating OpenGL 4.2 contexts with glXCreateContextAttribsARB to fail.
[/li]> [li] Fixed a bug that caused OpenGL to print
[/li]> .
Xlib: extension “NV-GLX” missing on display “:0”.
.
when used with a non-NVIDIA implementation of the GLX X extension.
[li] Implemented color depth 30 (10 bits per component) support for GeForce 8 series and higher GPUs.
[/li]> [li] Implemented support for constraining cursors to the visible regions of connected displays; see the “ConstrainCursor” X Option in the README for details.
[/li]> [li] Fixed a bug that would cause Firefox to abort on pages with Flash when layers acceleration was force-enabled on Linux and Solaris.
[/li]> [/list]
>
> As the title says
> ‘295.09 (beta) for Linux x86/x86_64 released - nV News Forums’
> (http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=2514702)
>
> I posted this one because, I tried this in my NvidiaGeforce 7300gt
> This graphic card has a very slow acceleration playing you tube video
> with 720p in full screen
> After loading the beta driver and tried it in you tube using 720p in
> full screen, the improvement is very noticeable.
> The video now is smooth on a 46" samsung tv connected via dvi to hdmi
> cable.
> The video card is connected to an old Pentium 4 asus p4g8x pc AGP slot.
>
for me (openSUSE 12.1, KDE 4.7.4 from Release:/47, GeForce 7900 GS) the
new driver didn’t work. it installed ok (from .run), but KDE wouldn’t
start. after logging in, the splash screen got stuck after the 2nd symbol
(screwdrivers, or whatever). htop didn’t show anything getting stuck, and
i didn’t wait too long. i’ve spent too much time fighting with nvidia
drivers already, so i just reverted to the stable driver (290.10), which
works fine.
> On Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:36:02 +0530, conram
> <conram@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> As the title says
>> ‘295.09 (beta) for Linux x86/x86_64 released - nV News Forums’
>> (http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=2514702)
>>
>> I posted this one because, I tried this in my NvidiaGeforce 7300gt
>> This graphic card has a very slow acceleration playing you tube video
>> with 720p in full screen
>> After loading the beta driver and tried it in you tube using 720p in
>> full screen, the improvement is very noticeable.
>> The video now is smooth on a 46" samsung tv connected via dvi to hdmi
>> cable.
>> The video card is connected to an old Pentium 4 asus p4g8x pc AGP slot.
>>
>
> for me (openSUSE 12.1, KDE 4.7.4 from Release:/47, GeForce 7900 GS) the
> new driver didn’t work. it installed ok (from .run), but KDE wouldn’t
> start. after logging in, the splash screen got stuck after the 2nd
> symbol (screwdrivers, or whatever). htop didn’t show anything getting
> stuck, and i didn’t wait too long. i’ve spent too much time fighting
> with nvidia drivers already, so i just reverted to the stable driver
> (290.10), which works fine.
>
since my internet connection has been acting up lately, i re-downloaded
the latest nvidia beta driver. now i can log into KDE, but plasma doesn’t
work correctly. i suspect whatever problems i seem to have are based on
faulty downloads. i’ll have to see if checksums are available for the
binary files, or try another download process that corrects errors. don’t
think anything is wrong with the driver as such.
> I don’t know if the md5sum is posted, but for information, from my
> download of the two drivers for 1st the 32-bit and 2nd the 64 bit:
> - cd0a20afd4d891adb884b9ad054fa2b6 NVIDIA-Linux-x86-295.09.run
> - f9829d18aba6765336aed2aa02b92fe0 NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-295.09.run
> I have NOT attempted to use either of these drivers. I downloaded them
> with a download accelerator.
thank you very much. now i know that both my downloads were correct, so
there’s a problem with my setup and this new driver.