NVidia Drivers - Build 5328


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Greetings.

Today, I noticed that this version of the NVidia Drivers is currently available, but I don't know if I should use those or the old 3123 drivers. Perhaps someone could tell me how the new drivers run and what I should do after editing the XF86Config file if I can't access the X server upon reboot.

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I've read mixed reports on these - some people say it doubles their performance, others aren't even able to start x ;) That's why I'm sticking with my current ones (4496) until I can get some more conclusive reports. How did they work for you guys?

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I just tried them.

I d/l the new 5328 version for IA32 platform, and exited X with init 3. From the console, I executed the .run file (after chmoding it, of course) and the license screen came up. I accepted. The screen switched to the "install" screen.

And then...

then...

it just hung there... :pinch:

No indication of what it was trying to do, or what the hang-up was. :no:

AFAIK, using init 3 to quit X is valid.

I did a CRTL-c to kill the program, and it died without incident. init 5 got x runnign again, and I am back to where I was before.

Is there a different way that this should be done? Otherwise, I would add a "didn't seem to extract" to the list of problems. :rofl:

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Well I'm just going to scan some pictures for yearbook, get my data backed up, and wipe out my entire system before I do this. My Windows 2000 partition is absolutely f***ed up, LOL! :D And if I get the new NVidia to work, then I'll practice installing the new 2.6 kernel on Slackware 9.0 just for the heck of it!

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:D I can't wait for people to post results, so I'm going to be installing the new nvidia drivers as soon as my gcc compile is done. Will let you know the results (along with a glxgears before and after, assuming after will work ;P)

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I've been running 5328 since the day they came out and they are fine for me. I am running the 2.6 kernel and patched using the patches available from minion.de so I highly suggest, as MG-Cloud did that you do this even if on a 2.4 kernel. As for performance, well if only I could remember how well glxgears ran in my previous 4496 and 4620 but 3D performance seems pretty good. No worse than before. One thing they don't have is the nice nvidia-settings program like 4620 did, but then again that wasn't an official driver release.

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as far as i know those drivers are only for linux? can someone hit me up with a windows download if im wrong? im trying every new driver that comes along cause i have that icon changing problem on my desktop. bleh.

*edit*

and i am a stupid boy for i have come to realize that this IS under the linux distros section. my apologies.

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What the hell? These freakin' drivers will not install on my system because it could not find the so-called Kernel headers! I'm running Slackware 9.0 with the standard kernel 2.4.20. How can I find these kernel headers and if not, I guess I'll have to do an attempt to install Kernel 2.6.0.

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First off, make sure you have /usr/src/linux-<KV> symlinked to /usr/src/linux. If it still needs kernel headers, cp -R /usr/src/linux/include/linux /usr/include/ and that should do it :).

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Ah. So that would be the answer to the problem. The only thing is that there isn't even a /usr/src/linux directory for some strange reason. :s The only directory in /usr/src is rpm. So now what do I do since Slackware does not include /usr/src/linux?

EDIT: There is a directory called /usr/include/linux, but it's only 3.4 MB and if I'm not mistaken, the kernel source has to be at least 50 MB, right?

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/usr/include/linux is your kernel headers, but you need full Linux sources to compile the module (or any module for that matter). Not only do you need the sources, but your kernel must have been compiled from those sources. So, get the sources and recompile your kernel (don't forget the /usr/src/linux symlink). Then try compiling the driver again.

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So in other words, I might as well just give 2.6.0 a shot. BTW, does the tarball have to be extracted in /usr/src or can I just use my regular /root directory?

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Technically you can put it wherever you want as long as it's symlinked to /usr/src/linux, but it's traditional and probably better to put it in /usr/src

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Never mind the kernel upgrade for now. I just had to add the --kernel-include-path /usr/include to the command to run the NVidia installer and it worked fine. As a matter of fact, better than 3123. But thank you all for your information.

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