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Message 17231 - Posted: 23 May 2010 | 4:00:40 UTC

New version of nVidia display driver is available. Has anyone tried it?
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Message 17236 - Posted: 23 May 2010 | 18:54:36 UTC - in response to Message 17231.

planning on trying it tonight. finally a fix for the vnc bug that has plagued me for ages.

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Message 17242 - Posted: 24 May 2010 | 1:35:36 UTC - in response to Message 17236.

seems I can no longer pull WUs with this driver.

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Message 17243 - Posted: 24 May 2010 | 1:56:55 UTC - in response to Message 17242.

Course, it may just be that Linux WUs have dried up. Cause rolling back the driver I can still not pull a WU. I think that seems more likely.

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Message 17245 - Posted: 24 May 2010 | 5:22:14 UTC - in response to Message 17243.

Now that I have this driver I've noticed that even when boinc is not running any tasks, I have on thread of my i7 maxed at 100% cpu use and the whole system is slow and unresponsive. Kill boinc, and the issue goes away. And now I can't find a ppa to downgrade to back to 195.36.24, they all seem to have upgraded to this one.

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Message 17313 - Posted: 25 May 2010 | 22:20:57 UTC

I guess Ubuntu 32 bit will not crunch on the GPU--??

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Message 17314 - Posted: 25 May 2010 | 23:09:52 UTC - in response to Message 17313.

64 bit only. Time to upgrade anyways, 64 bit Linux is plenty mature, literally been using it for years now.

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Message 17350 - Posted: 26 May 2010 | 20:29:16 UTC

Works ok for me: http://www.gpugrid.net/results.php?hostid=71711 & http://www.gpugrid.net/results.php?hostid=70922 BTW only reults from the 26th May & after are using this new beta driver & host 70922 was using both the 8800GT which hasn't fail "yet" & the Onboard Geforce 9800IGP which has never worked under Linux & works rarely under Windows 7(which I've disabled now).
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Message 17351 - Posted: 26 May 2010 | 21:26:05 UTC - in response to Message 17350.

I think the regression is specific to multi-fermi set ups.

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Message 17436 - Posted: 29 May 2010 | 17:46:54 UTC
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256.29 is now available http://ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/256.29/ Don't ask me what the difference is though...
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Message 17462 - Posted: 30 May 2010 | 15:54:44 UTC

Yeah, I can't find a changelog either.

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Message 17624 - Posted: 15 Jun 2010 | 14:07:00 UTC - in response to Message 17462.

Yeah, I can't find a changelog either.


Still can't find a changelog, but I finally decided to try it out. xxx.29 revision seems to resolve all the driver issues I had.

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Message 17673 - Posted: 19 Jun 2010 | 16:28:12 UTC

256.35 available now: http://ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/256.35/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-256.35.run
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Message 17676 - Posted: 20 Jun 2010 | 18:58:04 UTC

your link doesn't work

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Message 17677 - Posted: 20 Jun 2010 | 19:12:44 UTC - in response to Message 17676.

ftp site is down. For me the whole nvidia site is down. How about you?
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Message 17678 - Posted: 20 Jun 2010 | 20:56:53 UTC - in response to Message 17677.

That URL is clearly wrong!
You can't post FTP links. Copy & paste.

ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/256.35/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-256.35.run

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Message 17679 - Posted: 20 Jun 2010 | 21:12:41 UTC - in response to Message 17678.

Sorry skgiven UR correct. I hate when my pc sometimes does that, automatically adding a http:// no matter what. But Nvidia WAS down earlier, for me at least...
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