Am Mittwoch, den 01.04.2009, 11:34 +0200 schrieb Laurent Rineau: > 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. >
Okay. Don't sounds fine. Now i follow Nicolas opinion. I've read the discussions in Nvidia's nvnews.net Linux forum and post my problems there, still no feedback from nvidia. I hope nvidia work on the problems with the new chipsets. :-/ With my old GeForce 6800 the nvidia driver runs fine and stable, now with 9650M GT (New ASUS Notebook), compiz is not usable. Maybe it's a kernel problem... http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=130824 http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=1974514&postcount=407 It's a pity that the nvidia driver is still closed source. :-( Greetz Dirk
