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Title: Q: anyone tried new nvidia prop? (EDIT)
Post by: michaa7 on 2013/01/12, 23:46:24

d-u brings new nvidia packages (304.64-4). As the last ones had to be fixed for older Geforce cards (GeForce 6xxx, thanks towo) I am reluctant to unhold the installed ones until I can read a "no prob" from some experienced user.

Thanks

Title: Q: anyone tried new nvidia prop? (EDIT)
Post by: mylo on 2013/01/13, 11:21:37

No problem on this package list:

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dpkg -l|grep nvidia
ii  glx-alternative-nvidia                           0.2.2                              amd64        allows the selection of NVIDIA as GLX provider
ii  libgl1-nvidia-alternatives                       304.64-4                           amd64        transition libGL.so* diversions to glx-alternative-nvidia
rc  libgl1-nvidia-alternatives-ia32                  304.64-3.1                         amd64        simplifies replacing MESA libGL with GPU vendor libraries (32-bit)
ii  libgl1-nvidia-glx:amd64                          304.64-4                           amd64        NVIDIA binary OpenGL libraries
ii  libglx-nvidia-alternatives                       304.64-4                           amd64        transition libgl.so diversions to glx-alternative-nvidia
ii  libxvmcnvidia1:amd64                             304.64-4                           amd64        NVIDIA binary XvMC library
ii  nvidia-alternative                               304.64-4                           amd64        allows the selection of NVIDIA as GLX provider
ii  nvidia-glx                                       304.64-4                           amd64        NVIDIA metapackage
ii  nvidia-installer-cleanup                         20120630+3                         amd64        Cleanup after driver installation with the nvidia-installer
ii  nvidia-kernel-common                             20120630+3                         amd64        NVIDIA binary kernel module support files
ii  nvidia-kernel-dkms                               304.64-4                           amd64        NVIDIA binary kernel module DKMS source
ii  nvidia-settings                                  304.64-1                           amd64        Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
ii  nvidia-support                                   20120630+3                         amd64        NVIDIA binary graphics driver support files
ii  nvidia-vdpau-driver:amd64                        304.64-4                           amd64        NVIDIA vdpau driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-nvidia                        304.64-4                           amd64        NVIDIA binary Xorg driver


Title: Q: anyone tried new nvidia prop? (EDIT)
Post by: michaa7 on 2013/01/13, 13:39:32

What card do you have? GeForce 6xxx serie?

Title: Q: anyone tried new nvidia prop? (EDIT)
Post by: Smon on 2013/01/13, 14:04:34

$nvidia-settings -g | grep "OpenGL renderer string:"
  OpenGL renderer string: GeForce GTX 275/PCIe/SSE2

$nvidia-settings --version | grep "version" | awk '{print $3}'
304.64

$uname -r
3.6-9.towo-siduction-amd64

Works fine here. 3.6 Kernel because of virtualbox

http://www.nvidia.de/object/linux-display-amd64-304.64-driver-de.html
nvidia says. 6xxx is supported, maybe i can try 6800gs later

Edit: @towo: ok, sorry

Title: Q: anyone tried new nvidia prop? (EDIT)
Post by: towo on 2013/01/13, 14:29:32

Smon, your post is senseless, since this driver has supported kernel 3.6.x since its release.

Title: Q: anyone tried new nvidia prop? (EDIT)
Post by: mylo on 2013/01/13, 19:37:48

Quote from: "michaa7"

What card do you have? GeForce 6xxx serie?

Hi michaa7,

check my footer. If you need more information, just let me know.

Title: Q: anyone tried new nvidia prop? (EDIT)
Post by: michaa7 on 2013/01/13, 20:37:35

Quote from: "towo"

Smon, your post is senseless, since this driver has supported kernel 3.6.x since its release.

Thanks towo for this exhaustive info.

Title: Q: anyone tried new nvidia prop? (EDIT)
Post by: towo on 2013/01/13, 20:41:22

A quick kook in the added patch would say to me, the driver works with our kernel 3.7.x.

Title: Q: anyone tried new nvidia prop? (EDIT)
Post by: Smon on 2013/01/13, 22:01:29

Yeah, sorry towo.
Now i tested it on my 6800gs machine:

$ nvidia-settings -g | grep "OpenGL renderer string:"
  OpenGL renderer string: GeForce 6800 GS/PCIe/SSE2
$ nvidia-settings --version | grep "version" | awk '{print $3}'
304.64
$ uname -r
3.7-2.towo-siduction-amd64

It works and Glxgears works fine

Title: Q: anyone tried new nvidia prop? (EDIT)
Post by: michaa7 on 2013/01/15, 17:02:07

Thanks @ all

The current nvidia prop. driver works fine here with GeForce 6100 and 3.7-2.towo-siduction-i386.