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spankers
03-11-2005, 08:11 AM
Happiness and joy!
The GeForce4 420 Go in my laptop REALLY likes it.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-7167.html

Here's the changelog from 6629 to 7167:

* Improved OpenGL workstation performance.

* Added support for XRandR rotation; see Appendix W in the text README.

* Added ExactModeTimingsDVI X config option to give explicit control
over the mode timings used on FlatPanels.

* Added Xorg dlloader support.

* Changed driver behavior such that PAT (Page Attribute Table)
is used where possible instead of MTRRs.

* Added a workaround for an X server bug with PCI-E GeForce 6800
and GeForce 6600; a fix has been provided to XFree86 and XOrg.

* Fixed stability problems on x86_64 PCI-E systems.

* Documented change_page_attr problems with x86_64 2.6 kernels;
please see the known issue "The X86-64 platform (AMD64/EM64T)
and 2.6 kernels" in the text README here:

/usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README

* Fixed 2D rendering corruption on certain older GPUs.

* Improved compatibility with Linux 2.6 kernels.

* Fixed compatibility problems with some SWIOTLB em64t systems.

* Fixed a bug that triggered error messages of the form:

"ioctl32(doom.x86:6747): Unknown cmd fd(16) cmd(c0384642){00}
arg(ffffc75c) on /dev/nvidiactl"

* Fixed NvAGP incompatibility with recent Linux 2.6 kernels.

* Improved interaction with the udev filesystem.

* Improved performance of PCI cards on Linux 2.6 systems.

* Support for TurboCache GPUs.

spankers
03-11-2005, 08:45 AM
w00t and spank!
2D and 3D performance is MUCH improved and kernel 2.6.11-ck2 + driver 7167 is ****ing beautiful.

If you like to roll your own kernel, try Con Kolivas kernel patches. It is optimized for the desktop with a rewritten scheduler.
http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/