Nvidia 180.37

[tvap74]

Cheers,

It seems that Nvidia has released new drivers for linux, version 180.37. Upgraded from the 173 version to that and rebooted... Login, run glxgears for couple seconds and system crashed. Downgraded to 173 version (again). When there will be really stable version of the 180 drivers...? :-o Is anybode else experiencing problems with new drivers (newer than 180.35)?


tepa

[flarson]

Re: Nvidia 180.37

I installed 180.37 on a Sony Vaio

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G86M [GeForce 8400M GT] (rev a1)

running jaunty and they seem to be doing fine. I have direct rendering support as shown by glxinfo and I built and installed and ran flight gear last night, with very good performance.

[vmatherly]

Re: Nvidia 180.37

I am finding the 1.80.37 drivers unstable. The screen will flash black and randomly lock up. This also happened when I tested out the 1.80 drivers in Intrepid. My card is a Nvidia GeForce 7200 GS

[dibl]

Re: Nvidia 180.37

There's a Beta driver available, 185.13. Since 180 is unstable for you, you might want to give the new one a try. Get it from here:

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=122606

[3vi1]

Re: Nvidia 180.37

180.37 has been relatively stable on my system. I have had KDE go weird on me once or twice where some of the icons on the taskbar suddenly go invisible and the launcher stops drawing the white background behind the menus, though. Still, much better than 180.35.

[zenarcher]

Re: Nvidia 180.37

The Nvidia driver 180.37 has fixed the problems I've experienced. I can now reboot the system. Also, with the earlier Nvidia driver, if I tried use Menu Edit, after editing menus, I could do nothing else and would have to reboot by using the power button. The new Nvidia driver fixed that problem, as well. And, for me the 180.37 driver seems to be quite stable.

Cheers,
zenarcher

[Aries K]

Re: Nvidia 180.37

The Nvidia driver 180.37 has fixed the problems I've experienced. I can now reboot the system. Also, with the earlier Nvidia driver, if I tried use Menu Edit, after editing menus, I could do nothing else and would have to reboot by using the power button. The new Nvidia driver fixed that problem, as well. And, for me the 180.37 driver seems to be quite stable.

Cheers,
zenarcher

x2, 180.37 made all of my problems go away.

[Oceanwatcher]

Re: Nvidia 180.37

This page

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=122606

will have updates on not only the current release, but also pre-releases (that are considered stable, but needs more testing) and betareleases.

There is a pre-release that is numbered 180.41 . I have not tested it, but I am going to install and try.

[tvap74]

Re: Nvidia 180.37

I tried (again) 180.37 drivers, with no success. I can boot and log in to KDE but if I run for example glxgears, it stops responding after tens of seconds or couple minutes. So no luck for me. I have Abit AN8 socket 939 mb (NForce 4 chipset), AMD Athlon 64 x2 4200+ and Nvidia 7300 GS gfx adapter.

At the moment 173.xx version seems to be stable, so it is what I use. Thought I havent tried beta or pre-release drivers (yet)...


tepa

[vmatherly]

Re: Nvidia 180.37


I think its hardware specific. I have a GeForce 6800 GT on one system that runs perfect with the 1.80 drivers. While my GeForce 7300 SE is unusable. The 7300 is a very low end card maybe that has something to do with it.

[tvap74]

Re: Nvidia 180.37

Tried 180.44. I couldn't see any difference to the 180.37 version. So back to old good 173 again. :-(


tepa

[tvap74]

Re: Nvidia 180.37

Ok, now 180 series driver (180.44) works flawlessly. I just upgraded to Nvidia 7900 GTO... So it seems that the problem was 7300 GS.


tepa