Bugzilla Bug 196679

Version bump to 100.14.23. Works as expected.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Created an attachment (id=134090) [details]
nvidia-drivers-100.14.23.ebuild

Confirming, works fine...

Has anyone tested this on a 2.6.23 kernel?

(In reply to comment #3)
> Has anyone tested this on a 2.6.23 kernel?

Yes, the submitter.

Linux hydra 2.6.23 #1 SMP Thu Oct 11 16:59:15 CEST 2007 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2
Duo CPU T7100 @ 1.80GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

There's no sandbox violation issues with it?  I got them in 100.14.19, which
I'll submit a new bug on.

(In reply to comment #5)
> There's no sandbox violation issues with it?  I got them in 100.14.19, which
> I'll submit a new bug on.

The sandbox violation has nothing to do with the ebuild itself. I guess the
problem lies somewhere in portage. I'm getting the sandbox violation on any
kernel module ebuild. For now, try

FEATURES="-sandbox" emerge nvidia-drivers

but be careful what you're doing.

(In reply to comment #5)
> There's no sandbox violation issues with it?  I got them in 100.14.19, which
> I'll submit a new bug on.

Fixed in sys-apps/sandbox-1.2.18.1 and later (see comment 118 in bug 135745).
As I said before, the violation has nothing to do with this ebuild - or any
other module ebuild for that matter.

Can  confirm,  upgrading  sandbox  resolves  emerge  problem.  I  simply  used 
the  100.14.19  ebuild  and  renamed  it,  digested  and  emerged  and  it 
emerged  fine,  so  far  operating  fine.  This  is  an  important  package  as
 Nvidia  claims  they  have  fixed  the  problem  of  going  back  and  forth 
from  a  vt  when  running  compiz-fusion.  This  should  also  solve  the 
return  from  screensaver  issue  I  hope.  I  am  testing  it  now.  Till  now
 Ive  had  to  disable  dpms  and  use  electricsheep  as  a  screensaver  with
 no  power  management  whatsoever  in  order  to  avoid  problems  when 
returning  to  my  boxes.

Thanks for the ebuild - the .19 release fails to compile for me.

Some details:

Linux noddy 2.6.23-gentoo #2 SMP Sat Oct 27 17:08:42 BST 2007 i686 Intel(R)
Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce 7600 GT]
(rev a1)

Monitor is a NEC Multisync LCD 2080UX+ running at 1600x1200 

CFLAGS="-O2 -march=prescott -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"

MAKEOPTS="-j3"
FEATURES="parallel-fetch sandbox usersandbox userfetch userpriv"

glxgears:
51771 frames in 5.0 seconds = 10354.041 FPS
52197 frames in 5.0 seconds = 10439.235 FPS

nvidia-settings works nicely.

Hoorah!

These are beta drivers. They're not officially released drivers. The officially
supported drivers are 100.14.19. When there is an official release, those will
be added to Portage.

(In reply to comment #10)
> These are beta drivers. They're not officially released drivers.
> The officially supported drivers are 100.14.19.

Obviously not in Germany:

  http://www.nvidia.de/object/linux_de.html

Whatever, I don't care anymore.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html is the US page. As you can see 100.14.19
is the latest there. Checking their forums, where they also post the latest
version information,
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=14 shows 100.14.19
as well. Only going to the beta page,
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/betadrivers.aspx?lang=en-us can you see the
100.14.23 drivers.

Lastly, I asked NVIDIA employees and was told 100.14.23 were beta status only.

Well someone tell the Germans and Phoronix that it's beta, stop reporting that
it's not!

Phoronix forums clearly mark it as beta but their news article makes no
mention. Then again, Phoronix isn't really known to take the stable path. They
typically jump on the latest anything and run with it and complain that it's
not 100% polished. Case in point, reporting on 2.6.24-rc1 release, Nouveau
articles on a weekly basis, testing Fedora 8 2 weeks before it's released, the
list can go on.

Adding to the tree as masked.

Added to the tree but masked and with a note that they're beta drivers and
unsupported.