New NVidia 5336 Drivers Available - 2.6 Kernel Support

[Dean Mumby]

Marc Schwartz wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 09:41, Clint Harshaw wrote:
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>>Marc Schwartz wrote:
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>>>Hi all,
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>>>Just a quick heads up that NVidia has made available new drivers
>>>(version 5336) available, which now include support for the 2.6 kernel.
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>>>I am not running 2.6, however I did install the new drivers this morning
>>>on a Dell i8200 laptop with a 64 Mb 440 Go card. Using the 4496 drivers,
>>>I got around 2000 FPS with glxgears. With 5336, I am getting around 2100
>>>FPS with glxgears.
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>>I've just installed it as well, and it went in just fine without using 
>>the CC="gcc32" drill.
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>>Am I misunderstanding your frames-per-second though? I looked at the 
>>frames-per-second for the gears screensaver, and I'm seeing only around 
>>50 fps. That's on a stock PogoLinux Veronna workstation.
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>>Clint
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>I think the difference is that you are probably running the gears
>screensaver full screen, whereas the numbers that I gave above are from
>glxgears running from a console, which is not full screen. If I run
>gears full screen, showing the FPS, I am also getting around 50 FPS.
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>Here is a sampling of the output during glxgears from a console:
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>10226 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2045.200 FPS
>10246 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2049.200 FPS
>10230 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2046.000 FPS
>10220 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2044.000 FPS
>10218 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2043.600 FPS
>10157 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2031.400 FPS
>10187 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2037.400 FPS
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>These numbers are about 50 - 75 FPS slower than what I first got after
>starting X, before loading other apps. These numbers are with Evolution
>and gmplayer running.
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>BTW, I forgot to mention that I am running the 2.4.22-1.2163.nptl
>kernel.
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>HTH,
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>Marc
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Is that an offical kernel I have

2.4.22-1.2149.nptl and was under the impression that my system was up2date ?

Dean