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Bug 223569 - x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.08 ebuild could disable TurboCache as an option
Summary: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.08 ebuild could disable TurboCache as an option
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Tony Vroon (RETIRED)
URL: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-...
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Reported: 2008-05-25 15:10 UTC by junkmailnotread
Modified: 2008-05-25 16:51 UTC (History)
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Description junkmailnotread 2008-05-25 15:10:06 UTC 
Feature request to have x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.08 disable TurboCache.

Please see the attached link to Gentoo Discussion Forums. The 10th message in the thread presents a patch to the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.08-pkg0.tgz driver.

At present only Microsoft Windows users are able to disable TurboCache; via the Windows registry "RMDisableRenderToSysMem" entry.

The patch described in my forum message allows Linux users to do the same.

The patch could be added as an option to the x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.08 ebuild.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Patch the the nv-kernel.o binary blob as described in my forum message.
2. Rebuild the nvidia driver, reload it, and restart X.Org.
3. Observe in /var/log/Xorg.0.log that the NVIDIA X.Org Video Driver reported memory usage now excludes TurboCache.
Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-05-25 16:43:03 UTC 
(In reply to comment #0)
> Please see the attached link to Gentoo Discussion Forums.

Please do not reference external sources of information, but instead to provide all relevant information right here in this bug report.
Comment 2 Tony Vroon (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-05-25 16:51:51 UTC 
Sorry, I'm not willing to add patches to this ebuild that are not sanctioned by upstream. Please suggest them to nVidia instead, on the nvnews.net forums.