Bug 60321 – nVidia nForce Driver 1.0-0283 is out

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Dennis Schridde 2004-08-14 06:15:31 UTC]

nVidia nForce Driver 1.0-0283 is out.
It is compatible with kernel 2.6, so many problems should be fixed.

I read that the last one was marked "WONT" because there is one in the kernel tree. I think it should be upon the user to decide if he wants to use the official ones by nVidia or the kernels modules.

This is out for x86_64, too.

There seems to be a slight problem: The module is included into a installer-script which asks the user some questions...

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Dennis Schridde 2004-08-14 07:15:15 UTC]

This could be workarounded by simply adding -qsa to the scripts options. (-q: No questions; -s: Silent; -a: Accept License)
Or by using some of the "expert options" if necessary.

[Comment 2 Ian Weber 2004-08-16 22:25:43 UTC]

It looks as though it's much the same script nVidia use for their graphics drivers. Gentoo have managed to work around that in the nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel ebuilds so I'd imagine it shouldn't be much harder to do something similar here.

I'm kind of hoping they will make ebuilds for these as the kernel LAN driver has been fairly dodgy for me lately but in addition the new audio driver offers a feature many have been wanting for a long time: hardware mixing on the audio hardware. That's not offered in any of the kernel sound drivers.

[Comment 3 Marek Wiecek 2004-08-30 14:31:23 UTC]

Created attachment 38537 [details]
nforce-net-1.0-0283.ebuild

I've prepared an ARCH"~x86" ebuild working with latest gentoo-dev-sources.

It is based on latest ~x86 nvidia-kernel ebuild and also on latest nforce-net
ebuild.

Enjoy.

[Comment 4 Lukas Miczka 2004-09-07 10:16:15 UTC]

What about nForce audio ? Cause NV added 2.6.x kernel support nad HV mixng...

[Comment 5 Jesse Adelman 2004-09-10 15:49:06 UTC]

Any chance of this getting into Portage soon? Thanks.

[Comment 6 Chad Corkrum 2004-09-11 14:58:34 UTC]

i have created ebuilds for x86 and amd64 that work much the same way as the video driver. they can be found at:

ftp://lila-project.ath.cx/upload/nforce

i have tested them on an x86 arch using gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.8-r4

[Comment 7 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) 2004-09-26 07:50:59 UTC]

My own ebuild is in portage (didn't see this bug, sorry). Also, could all nvnet users please take a look at bug 65330 as this package will probably be removed soon.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 58344 ***

[Comment 8 Ian Weber 2004-09-26 09:57:11 UTC]

Any chance you could possibly whip something up for nforce-audio as well (the previous link seems to be dead)? That's the one I think most people will be interested in. nvnet may provide nothing not already present in forcedeth but, as I mentioned earlier, nvsound has features that aren't - and probably never will be - present in any of the existing open source drivers making it wise to keep in Portage for teh time being.