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NVIDIA Releases New Linux Drivers

Posted by timothy on from the proprietary dept.

mlmitton writes "NVIDIA just released new Linux drivers (1.0-5328). But the early reports by users are less than encouraging. People are weighing in with mostly bad news about how well these new drivers work. Some people are finding that Neverwinter Nights doesn't work and they're reverting to the old drivers (4496). I spent a few long hours recently trying to get the old drivers to work with Fedora Core 1 so I'm going to hold off on these new ones."

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  1. Fix by Lord_Dweomer · · Score: 4, Funny
    "People are weighing in with mostly bad news about how well these new drivers work. Some people are finding that Neverwinter Nights doesn't work and they're reverting to the old drivers (4496). "

    Ah, this is a common problem. Renaming the NWN executable to 3Dmark.exe should fix things right up.

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  2. Whoah slow down by gantrep · · Score: 5, Funny

    New NVidia drivers for linux? I'm still trying to get the old ones to work!!

  3. Re:Gee... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    now you can play those two linux games even faster!

  4. Re:Explanation please. by Bombcar · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yah. But the story is similar, and NVidia did it with 3Dmark.exe or whatever.

    mv /boot/bzImage /boot/3dMark.exe

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  5. Re:What?!! by Barnoid · · Score: 2, Funny

    and even then, some hacking is required to update PCI IDs, and possibly the list of features the card supports.

    if you call updating PCI IDs in the source code hacking, then I'm probably a terrorist according to current U.S practice

  6. Re:Good job NVIDIA by ag3n7 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I just hope you don't ever bother the Linux developers with weird problems on your system, specifically those involving 'oops'es and whatnot. Not only you'll be wasting their time, but also you might get silence, pity, mocking, or other reactions.

    Yup, why would the developers treat him any differently than anyone else (RTFM, its not a bug, etc). :-D

  7. Re:What?!! by Net_Wakker · · Score: 2, Funny
    if you call updating PCI IDs in the source code hacking, then I'm probably a terrorist according to current U.S practice

    You post to this forum filled with hippy commie hackers, DMCA-violators and other longhaired filesharing scum. Of course you're a terrorist.
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