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NVIDIA Drivers for 2.6 Kernel

Posted by michael on from the sadly-still-not-open dept.

fmileto writes "Kerneltrap.org is reporting that Nvidia has released drivers for the 2.6 series kernel. The driver and install directions can be found on Nvidia's website."

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  1. Excellent by Coryoth · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is making my transition to 2.6 on my laptop look much more likely. I was wondering when NVidia would get around to doing such a thing. The fact that it has been relatively prompt seems to suggest that they are still somewhat interested in the Linux market.

    The next question is when will they release drivers for Keith Packard's/Freedektop.org's Xserver, because to be honest, I'm very interested in seeing what that can do...

    Jedidiah

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    1. Re:Excellent by caluml · · Score: 5, Interesting
      The fact that it has been relatively prompt seems to suggest that they are still somewhat interested in the Linux market.

      Maybe we should all download it, even if we don't have an NVidia card, just in case they are monitoring the stats of Windows and Linux driver downloads.

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  2. Do they still suck? by adrianbaugh · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The last (2.4) drivers that worked for me were 1.0.4496; the recent ones are a disaster, so hopefully they've taken the time to iron out the bugs and this isn't just the latest version of the driver with the (already existing) 2.6 patch bolted on.

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  3. Re:But when by pe1rxq · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Atleast that is what they want people to think...
    For the video drivers that might be true. Although I doubt there is really anything really new in there... a lot of manufacturers overestimate their own brilliance.
    But for there chipset drivers (e.g. nForce) they are just plain assholes.

    Jeroen

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  4. Re:Huh? by Aardpig · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You had 3D acceleration?

    Fer sure, and its definitely been working (smooth 3D viewing of 100,000 polygon meshes). Either that, or the Underpant Gnomes installed a 10GHz processor in my machine while I was asleep...

    However, its worth noting that I'm using the drivers as packaged by Gentoo. This may include the patch which another reply to my OP mentions; I wasn't aware of this patch when I posted.

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