New 100.14.09 nvidia drivers

Miquel Jabalera mjabalera at itec.cat
Mon Jul 16 08:18:55 CEST 2007


Matthias Saou wrote:
> Cliff Wells wrote :
>
>   
>> On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 15:08 -0400, Thomas J. Baker wrote:
>>     
>>> On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 11:57 +0200, Matthias Saou wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I've packaged the very latest nvidia driver. The huge version jump
>>>> somewhat bothers me, as it will be impossible to come back to any lower
>>>> numbering once we start with these new 100.x versions... :-/
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> I tried it as well and had problems. It initially installed and worked
>>> fine but after a while compiz started behaving badly. After trying to
>>> restart compiz (after problem with window maximizing), X locked up
>>> completely. This hadn't happened with the older drivers. I've switched
>>> back.
>>>       
>> Beryl eventually (after a few hours) drives CPU to 100% with this
>> driver.  Also reverted.
>>     
>
> I just saw that 100.14.11 drivers have been out for a little while,
> I'll test and push those out shortly.
>
> Matthias
>
>   
I've been testing the 100.14.9 for a while and had no problem at all. I 
am not using compiz but yes some opengl games. After installing the new 
.11 version I noticed a very big performance downgrade.
I've switched back to 97xx version (I have a 6800gt).

Miquel






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