New Nvidia Driver in Repo today 8th Aug

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I had some hash check errors earlier today from the Nvidia repo.

But now there are new drivers in there and the error has gone.

Report here if you update, so we know how it goes!!

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I’ve been running the new drivers for a few hours without problems on 11.0 x86 KDE.

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I managed to find time to update myself too and all went just fine. No issues here:

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Great the new nvida drivers dont fix the kde 4.X slowness issue. My system is still so choppy that its almost unusable.

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have you started a thread to see if you can solve that issue?

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They weren’t intended to. The beta versions of the drivers were released earlier, and many KDE4 users with those issues didn’t see an improvement, although some did.

Have you looked at the KDE wiki page for optimizing nvidia? Apparently a couple of the settings help, and you can check nvnews.net for further details.

The basic problem is that KDE4 has graphic requirements that nvidia didn’t anticipate, and winds up reverting to Xorg for software handling of the bling. I’m not apologizing for them, that’s a clusterfsck on their part, but on the plus side, they have acknowledged the issue and future driver releases should start to address it.

I don’t know what’s going on with nVidia these days. I’m just grateful that the nv graphics in my laptop works well with KDE4 compositing, and that it’s not one of the ones involved in the Dell recall/bios-fix mess. I certainly hope they get their act together though.

Anyways, just my 2c…

Cheers,
KV

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I am checking the repo, and it still says 173.14.09 (what I have now), checked on nvidia site, it says 173.14.12 is available for my 64bit/11.0/KDE3.5 install.

Heeter

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Hey Heeter,

I have 173.14.12-0.1
installed from the repo

pick up the url of your repo and visit with a browser see what is there (you need to use ftp)
make sure you have refresh enabled in the repos

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I haven’t use the suse 11.0 nvidia repo, can you please kindly post it, so I can add it in yast

Thanks in advance

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http://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/11.0/

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caf4926,

Thanks a ton

Cheers,
conram

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Well,

I hit refresh, Saw the updated list, downloaded and installed, and rebooted, so far so good.

Enabled the desktop effects with no problem either.

Looks like a keeper.

Thanks Caf,

Heeter

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Guess we will just have to wait for nvidia to fix their drivers so they work with kde correctly. Its not as bad when you have no desktop effect running but when you have compiz running its is really choppy.

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I haven’t bothered to check on the new drivers. I guess I am fortunate as I have no problems with KDE 4. I run Compiz and Emerald and have no slowdowns, graphic artifacts, or other problems. Hope it stays that way!

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For me, in KDE3.5.9 the new driver fixed the terrible performance while scrolling in Firefox which was introduced by an earlier Nvidia driver. So that is good - Firefox is usable again.

But, in KDE4.1 this new driver hasn’t fixed the problems with the panel/kicker/taskbar at the bottom of the screen (even when all effects are turned off). When certain apps are running (eg OpenOffice, Thunderbird-compose new message and Eclipse) mousing over the panel/taskbar corrupts that part of the display.

Until they fix that bug, I’m sticking with KDE 3.5

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Installed it through the Upgrades tab in YaST and not problem to speak of.

I’m a Gnome user, so I’m not having any problems there with KDE.

Seems to be working well so far with Compiz-Fusion running. :slight_smile:

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Is it just me or are the kernel and graphics drivers updates rarely timed? And when you need to install and they are not, what do you guys do? I can’t wait for them to fit each other when X won’t start!

For Nvidia drivers I’ve ditched YaST entirely. From now on I go for the “hard” way every time.

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Always done it the “hard way” i’m a fan of the command-line ( old skool linux here :wink: ). Even prefer updating things via cli

Andy

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From reading the forms all over the internet seems im not the only one having this issue. There are a TON of other people with the same issues. Anyone have any advice for me. There has got to be some seeting I change change to speed it up.

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> Report here if you update, so we know how it goes!!

have an old GeForce FX 5500 which had no real problems (3 or 2D) with the old
drivers, and so far can’t see any difference with the new…oh, i guess i need
to go play…hmmmm, make that TEST my new drivers (nvidia-gfx-G01-kmp-default &
x11-video-nvidiaG01) in a 3D environment…

oooohhh works good!

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