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- NX910a, on 10/12/2007, -8/+116I just want the source code...
- Inaeth, on 10/12/2007, -1/+49They may not be open source, and I don't pretend to understand all the licensing issues between the drivers and the Kernel, but their continued and on-going support for the Linux platform is the reason why I just bough a brand new NVidia card a few weeks ago. On my old hardware, I didn't really need something with all the "Gee, By Gosh!" whizbangs, but it is nice to be able to play WOW and do my graphics processing without a hitch thanks to NVidia! :)
Anyone know what their market share is at the current time? - Phocion55, on 10/12/2007, -4/+32Dude, seriously, STFU....
Full House rules. - NX910a, on 10/12/2007, -3/+27I care about Linux and Ubuntu. (:
- flygirl62, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21I don't think this is a problem. I have beryl running with dual head on nVidia cards... both at home and at work. And this is with the previous version of the driver
- Tumdian, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19this makes me hate ATI so much.
- Durrok, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19You know what else is user friendly? The reply link.
- strabes, on 10/12/2007, -6/+23@tubatechno: That's ok. When you grow up, you'll stop playing kiddy computer games and start getting work done. Believe it or not, your parents will eventually stop buying you stuff, especially things like $300 operating systems. It happens to the best of us.
- Inaeth, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16@timjbart
It depends on the policies of your Distribution maintainers. I know in PCLinuxOS and Mepis, these drivers usually get added within a week or two to the distros assistants or repositories, so installing them is a single click away. I think in Gentoo, it's relatively easy to install. Suse is one of the hardest I've had to install these drivers onto, mainly because Novell doesn't think you will ever need the source code for anything. Ubuntu is pretty good about adding these to the repository as well. For each of these, though, the install is slightly different, so it would be best to check with the respective IRC or support forums and read the FAQ before installation. It will simplify the process, and save you a lot of headaches. - Tyr7BE, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18Someone sounds jealous :)
- kalpol, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14I totally agree...I had an ATI video card and had so many issues with the TVout that I got Nvidia cards for all the TV computers (MythTV) and then just out of spite got another for the desktop. The ATI card is in a file server with a 12" Acer crappy ass monitor...take that ATI!!!!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18upgrading the driver is as easy as typing #sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9755-pkg1.run
- grexeo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12I can't speak for the masses, but ATI have lost me as a customer. I recently purchased an nVidia 6200 for £20/$30 for use on a friends new Linux machine, and I've finally realised what the nVidia Linux fuss is all about. My next card will be nVidia for sure.
- evilTak, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13That sounds more like a monitor configuration issue than a video card issue...
- Tyr7BE, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12I'm using nvidia drivers and I have no problems with higher resolutions. I'm at 1900x1600 right now and the driver doesn't bat an eye.
Can your monitor support higher than 1024x768? It's sketchy sometimes with LCDs. If so, check your xorg.conf file, make sure you have higher resolutions listed. If not, just add them in. - Peterh, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14Beryl is working fine on my two monitors
- ahawks, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12I run beryl on my laptop at work, so I only know about dualhead what I have read on forums....
I thought nVidia *was* the solution to composite supported dualhead?
ATI drivers, if I recall, only support resolutions 2048x2048. - Nerevar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I'm pretty sure you have to use the legacy drivers for a Geforce 2. Seriously would it kill you to buy a new graphics card? You can get low-end ones for pretty damn cheap these days. A 6200 is like $30 on newegg. If you want Beryl that bad you should just buy a new card.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12wow, we have an analyst here! may I have your contact?
lol - strabes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Yeah. I long for the day when I see "ATI Finally Supports AIGLX & DRI" on the Digg frontpage.
- hrak, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Still no fix for the black window bug. Pretty sad.
- kushed, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11Nvidia would be happy to release the source code, there is just to many proprietary code in there by 3rd party vendors that would sue the ***** out of nVidia if they were to every release it.
- toddji, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6How about "PureVideo" support? NVidia has all kinds of cool video processing technologies that they hype quite strongly. But, almost none of it is available in Linux. There is some support for MPEG2 acceleration with XvMC (but that's iffy at best.. just look at the MythTV mailing list for all the issues with XvMC), but any of their advanced scaling, deinterlacing, MPEG4 accelation WMV9 acceleration, H.264 acceleratin, etc. are completely unavailable.
If ANY video card was available that offered solid support for these features, or at least open source / open spec's to move toward those features, I would jump on it in a second.
There were rumblings about the new AMD/ATI opening up more, but I haven't seen anything yet.
Intel is opening their drivers, but it looks like the video processing stuff is way down on the priority list. - muffinmanpoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6@tuzziel,
Yeah, what Linux really needs is a registry like Windows. Because that's SO user friendly. :| - Hardcase, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8I don't want the source code. I don't want to run dual monitors. I don't want to play games. I just want my Geforce 440 Go-based notebook to be able to run Beryl without having the windows go black because the display driver doesn't know what to do when the video card runs out of physical memory. Nvidia keeps saying that they know all about it and they'll fix it...someday. Of course, seeing that the 440 Go is getting close to the end of the supported cards list, "someday" may never come.
On the other hand, maybe I do want the source code. I can't program, but I guess that everybody else can. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Why havent you been able to before? I've run 1600x1200 for years now on nvidia hardware.
- antiNeo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@bightchee
You don't have to "fight" the X settings after installing this driver... it should be a drop-in replacement for your old one.
@idonthack
I'm guessing it's because you can't get the very latest nvidia driver from the repository. Anyone who was excited enough by this new driver release to browse the comments probably doesn't use the repo. - bightchee, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10Video drivers were the one problem I had when installing Ubuntu for the first time. I don't see any benefits to upgrade if it means fighting with the X settings again.
- AngryPenguin47, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5nVidia 25% as of december according to http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20061206/nvidia-ati-intel-graphics.htm
ATI 24%. - actionscripted, on 10/12/2007, -13/+18I just want dual-monitors with composite support...
- ibis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The 9xxx series drivers give you the texture_from_pixmap OpenGL extension which AIGLX requires. This allows you to run things like Beryl and Compiz without needing XGL. If you don't want to do this then you can keep using the 8xxx drivers quite happily.
- SamsLembas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Now if only they would give us a PowerPC version. Or even better, open up the source code so we can have it for any processor.
- PauloPio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4another good thing is that nvidia updates their 64 bit drivers as soon as the 32 bit ones.
- carl0ski, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6@TubaTechno
Rumour has it you can't play any games properly on Windows Vista using Nvidias Drivers
Guess what its a first NVIDIA work better on linux than Windows - strabes, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5@tuzziel: Yeah it really is pretty user friendly. It's a plain text document so you can just open it up in gedit or kedit or whatever and change whatever you need to, and you're done.
- Hardcase, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Dugg down? I don't see why. Nvidia has known about the bug for months now, but still no fix. I'd love to be able to use Beryl or Compiz, but I'm lucky if I can get three windows open before they start turning black. And there's no video card upgrade in my future, unless somebody can come up with a way to upgrade a 440 Go.
- NX910a, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6I also hate xorg.conf. After you install the NVIDIA drivers, just run:
$ sudo nvidia-xconfig
and it will configure it for you (I also really hate the terminal, but running one command isn't that bad). - rockets, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Shutup you MCP touting old fart and go back to your Visual Basic and Cobol.
- idonthack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3So what's with NX910a getting buried?
- VinceNoir, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4@ahawks
Hmmm... I'm running dual head with Beryl at home using an NVidia with dual svga outs. It's running 2048x768 and it's damn nice. Not easy to set up tho... - Ademan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I think there should be a graphical frontend to xorg.conf though, often people don't know where to start with that sort of thing, i know it took a lot of man pages for me to get it, i still have to google a lot of stuff.
- cybrhippy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5There is a chance your LCD can't go higher, might want to look up the max resolution. I have had no problems getting any resolution to work w/ nVidia drivers (1440x1050, 1920x1200, 1600x1200, etc).
- squidbilly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Still chugging along just fine with rev. 1.0.8764 driving my 6200LE.
- cptchaos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Hey josh, I had the same problem when I bought my new 8800 GTS and my new flatscreen - the X-server can't start because Ubuntus default-nvidia drivers dont support the Geforce 8800 (its too new I guess). The solution is simple: Download and install the latest nvidia-driver and everything should work. And the simplest way to do that is called "Envy". What is Envy you ask? Look here: http://albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html
From the site: "It is an application (written in Python and PyGTK) which automates the installation of both ATI and Nvidia's proprietary driver on Ubuntu ..."
It has both an graphical-interface and a text-interface. since your graphic-environment doesn't work yet you obviously have to use the textual-interface. but dont worry - its easy as hell:
just install ubuntu - but not with the graphical live cd - but with the alternate text-install cd :
you can find the iso here: ftp://ftp.easynet.be/ubuntu-iso/edgy/
after installation you will be greeted - not wit a graphical logon - but with the console logon-prompt.
just logon with your username and password
after that you need to download the envy script. to do that type:
wget http://albertomilone.com/ubuntu/nvidia/scripts/envy_0.9.0-0ubuntu2_all.deb
and then install the script with:
sudo dpkg -i envy_0.9.0-0ubuntu2_all.deb
now run envy:
envy
theres a text menu - just choose the "install nvidia drivers" options and youre on the way!
after installation of the drivers reboot and if everything worked fine (which it should) you can now enjoy ubuntu with your geforce gts8800.
whenever theres a new driver, just run envy and it will update the drivers.
have fun
cpt-chaos - bfdhud, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Envy is garbage.
It's just as easy to download the drivers from nvidia's website. apt-get build essential and xorg dev and whatever else it needs.
log out, stop kdm / gdm and sh NV(tab) (enter)
I tried envy twice and both times it completely molested my computer. I tried the manual way once and low and behold, it worked. - Mejogid, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5Depending on your distro, either post on the appropriate forum with your X config and monitor model or search for horizsync and vertrefresh and add them to your xorg.conf. Again, this is the sort of the thing you should find out from Google, IRC or forums.
On Ubuntu or Debian, try
sudo dpkg-reconfigure -p high xserver-xorg
in the terminal, and then restart X (log out, ctrl + alt + back space, log back in). - Fallout75, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I wish I could just get my nVidia Geforce 2 to work with Beryl, then I would be happen. Wouldn't mind just to have 3D support period. I wonder if these drivers will help.
- Ademan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3@VinceNoir
Really? I'm having a lot of trouble setting it up on a geforce 8800, i'd love it if you could help me out, even if you just pasted your xorg.conf. - cowholio4, on 03/10/2009, -0/+1http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_32667.html
This helped me find the appropriate driver - antiNeo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah, seriously. If you want to run Beryl you need a new card, and maybe even a new computer. My parents have this exact same card... it's the very last card supported by the legacy driver. Even if it was supported by the modern driver it wouldn't matter because it already struggles to run xcompmgr.
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