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NVidia 0.9-6 and DPMS

NVidia 0.9-6 and DPMS

Post by Joshua Baker-LePai » Fri, 26 Jan 2001 22:18:48



I installed the latest nvidia drivers and am very happy with the newfound
performance and stability.  I'm on a dual 933, 512MB RAM, GeForce 256 setup,
and the 0.9-5 drivers locked hard and fast with NvAGP enabled (and somewhat
less often with it disabled).  The new drivers work quite well with NvAGP
which (among other things) lets me play QuakeIII at 32bpp.  :)

*However*, dpms has gone away.  I had it working just fine with the older
drivers with the requisite 'Option "dpms"' in the Xf86Config file and
using xset.  My XF86Config hasn't changed, but now the log says:

(WW) NVIDIA(0): Option "dpms" is not used

Is there anything I can do about this?  Or did nvidia not compile it into
their drivers?  Thanks.

--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University

 
 
 
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NVidia 0.9-6 and DPMS

Post by Xuejun Li » Fri, 26 Jan 2001 22:30:24


Hi, Joshua,

DPMS is unsafe for SMP, so better disable it.


> I installed the latest nvidia drivers and am very happy with the newfound
> performance and stability.  I'm on a dual 933, 512MB RAM, GeForce 256 setup,
> and the 0.9-5 drivers locked hard and fast with NvAGP enabled (and somewhat
> less often with it disabled).  The new drivers work quite well with NvAGP
> which (among other things) lets me play QuakeIII at 32bpp.  :)

> *However*, dpms has gone away.  I had it working just fine with the older
> drivers with the requisite 'Option "dpms"' in the Xf86Config file and
> using xset.  My XF86Config hasn't changed, but now the log says:

> (WW) NVIDIA(0): Option "dpms" is not used

> Is there anything I can do about this?  Or did nvidia not compile it into
> their drivers?  Thanks.

> --
> Joshua Baker-LePain
> Department of Biomedical Engineering
> Duke University


 
 
 
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NVidia 0.9-6 and DPMS

Post by Joshua Baker-LePai » Sat, 27 Jan 2001 00:07:45



> DPMS is unsafe for SMP, so better disable it.

It was my understanding that kernel-managed APM is unsafe for SMP,
and is thus disabled by default.  To wit:


apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.13)
apm: disabled - APM is not SMP safe.

But I've never had a problem with X managed DPMS for the monitor...

--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University

 
 
 
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NVidia 0.9-6 and DPMS

Post by Matthew J. Wilken » Sat, 27 Jan 2001 00:26:41



> I installed the latest nvidia drivers and am very happy with the newfound
> performance and stability.  I'm on a dual 933, 512MB RAM, GeForce 256 setup,
> and the 0.9-5 drivers locked hard and fast with NvAGP enabled (and somewhat
> less often with it disabled).  The new drivers work quite well with NvAGP
> which (among other things) lets me play QuakeIII at 32bpp.  :)

> *However*, dpms has gone away.  I had it working just fine with the older
> drivers with the requisite 'Option "dpms"' in the Xf86Config file and
> using xset.  My XF86Config hasn't changed, but now the log says:

> (WW) NVIDIA(0): Option "dpms" is not used

> Is there anything I can do about this?  Or did nvidia not compile it into
> their drivers?  Thanks.

I've had exactly the same problem with my TNT2 M64 on a uniprocessor
machine.  I sent a bug report to nvidia but haven't heard anything from
them - I'll post here if I ever do get an answer.

--
Matt Wilkens

 
 
 
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NVidia 0.9-6 and DPMS

Post by Xuejun Li » Sat, 27 Jan 2001 00:50:11


YES, I misunderstood, :)
I just installed NVIDIA driver four hours ago, didn't notice this bug
yet. Btw, new NVIDIA driver improves the performance a lot. Usually it
took 20-30 seconds to start aviplay, but now, just 2 few seconds. And
also the image is more smooth and exciting.

Regards



> > DPMS is unsafe for SMP, so better disable it.

> It was my understanding that kernel-managed APM is unsafe for SMP,
> and is thus disabled by default.  To wit:


> apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.13)
> apm: disabled - APM is not SMP safe.

> But I've never had a problem with X managed DPMS for the monitor...

> --
> Joshua Baker-LePain
> Department of Biomedical Engineering
> Duke University

 
 
 
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1. new NVIDIA 0.9-6 drivers released

It seems no one else has mentioned this -- NVIDIA has posted updated
drivers on their web site.

  http://www.nvidia.com/Products/Drivers.nsf/Linux.html

Scroll to the bottom of that page to find links to RPMs for SuSE,
Mandrake, and RedHat 6.x and 7.x.  (Binary only, of course).

According to the FAQ this version supports all chipsets from TNT up to
GeForce2/Quadro2.  XFree86 4.0.1 or newer, linux 2.2.12 kernel or newer.
On the "MX" models they support TwinView. AGP support via either
NVIDIA's AGP or AGPGART. Runtime status via the procfs (e.g. cat
/proc/nv/card0).

But I haven't tried installing yet...

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