nVidia Posts First Linux Graphics Drivers for Opteron

Brian Stretch writes "nVidia posted the first publically available Linux graphics drivers for the Athlon 64 (aka Hammer series) on their website today. There are updates for the lesser x86 and IA64 architectures as well. Now, if only the Athlon 64 and Opteron boards and CPUs themselves were publically available, or is AMD's developer program sending out more of these things than I know? (If so, gimme!) I guess I'll have to tough it out with my mere dual Athlon 2400+ workstation for now (heh heh heh)." In related news, an anonymous reader writes "The new AMD Opteron servers designed by Newisys are using embedded Linux for system management. This allows remote management via web browser or ssh to examine processor state, switch power on/off, regulate processor power states and fan speeds, update BIOS firmware, etc. See the docs for more info!"

Comments

nVidia does First Post?

[fobbman]

What's next? ATI doing Natalie Portman/hot grits drivers?

Re:nVidia does First Post?

[zapfie]

What's next? ATI doing Natalie Portman/hot grits drivers?

Ssh.. that's still under NDA!

Jesus

[cca93014]

I guess I'll have to tough it out with my mere dual Athlon 2400+ workstation for now

oh do shut up

Why tell us....

[Deltan]

I guess I'll have to tough it out with my mere dual Athlon 2400+ workstation for now (heh heh heh).

I don't think anyone here cares how big your e-penis is, and no... I won't stroke it.

Re:Why tell us....

[Gregory S Patterson]

Agreed, and I dont think it would be possible for this guy's picture to fit his comment any more than it does.

translation of comments.

[LordYUK]

"tough it out with my mere dual AMD 2400 (heh heh heh)"...

I havent gotten laid since October of '67. (sob sob sob)

Do you think he's compensating for something?

[Anonymous Coward]

I guess the rest of us will have to make due with the mere thousands of dollars we saved (heh heh heh...)

Re:Oh yeah?

[spaceorb]

You had sex with a mere dual Athlon 2400+ workstation?

Re:whoa

[Anonymous Coward]

I only have an 8-bit processor you insensitive clod!

For those who care to know

[aliens]

With the new drivers I didn't see any performance gains with Quake3 timedemos or Ut2k3, with a ti4200.

Obligatory comment

[miltimj]

I guess I'll have to tough it out with my mere dual Athlon 2400+ workstation for now (heh heh heh).

[sigh] You're bragging about a single dual Athlon machine when I've got a beowulf cluster of those??..

Re:What workstation?

[stratjakt]

And ya just know he does no 'work' on his workstation, or even have a clue what it's capable of - because he somehow thinks he needs an Opteron on release day.

*Clue stick* Opteron is not going to make either of the 2 games for linux any faster.

HA HA! Go back to reading at +1, whiner!

[Anonymous Coward]

In Soviet Russia, dead horse beats YOU !

Re:Yay

[cant_get_a_good_nick]

UK-Smiley (ironicon) £:-)

Hmm, on my screen that looks like a smiley with a bad toupee. Would that be the Marv Alberticon, or the Bill Shatnericon? Or would it be a Ted Koppelicon, being quite obvious about it being there, but insisting it's not a pound symbol on your head and just having a bad haircut for years?

Re:chrisd read this

[FyRE666]

He didn't say Athlon XP, I just finished building a dual Athlon MP 2400+ myself. The mother board is a Tyan Thunder K7X Pro, power supply is an Antec True550 EPS12V, and memory is 4 sticks of Corsair's 1GB 266MHz ECC registered memory. I also have Adaptec's 0 channel RAID controller, and 8 18GB Seagate 15K.3 RPM SCA drives. Using built in ATI RageXL video and gigabit LAN. All in a Lian Li PC-626SCA case.

The machine is rock solid from what I can tell, and blazingly fast, and I'm glad I didn't have to pay for it.

So I'm guessing you're either a beta-tester for iD's upcoming Doom 3 game, or a java developer?