On Wednesday 01 April 2009 01:57:46 Nicolas Chauvet wrote: > 2009/3/31 [email protected] <[email protected]>: > > Hi, > > is there somewhere latest nvidia driver 180.44? I would like to test it > > as it fixes plasma in KDE [1]. > > > > I'm using kernel 2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.i686. > > > > [1] http://dridk.blogspot.com/2009/03/new-nvidia-display-driver.html > > To my understanding this driver was a pre-release driver promoted to > stable. But it was also reported that this driver strangely missed support > for some hardware. > So I've choosen not to promote this package at this time... > > I will re-evaluate this next week (specially when about to introduce > 185.13 to the beta branch or the "future" stable branch for rawhide).
I have recompiled and tested nvidia-kmod and xorg-x11-drv-nvidia with that version driver 180.44, on two machines: - one laptop, Intel Core 2 Duo (T7500), kernel i686, graphic card Quadro NVS 140M, - one desktop, Intel Xeon quad (E5430), kernel x86_64, graphic card Quadro FX 570. Since the switch to 180.44, my X processes eats CPU indecently! On the laptop, the 'top' command says X uses between 30 and 50% of one core, and on the desktop, X uses between 90 and 100% of one core, even if when the display does not refresh itself (checked with the feature "Show paints" of KWin compositing mode). NVidia drivers are known to eat CPU, but it has never been that bad with the version 180.29. -- Laurent Rineau http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LaurentRineau
