No nvidia/fgrlx kernel modules for latest 2.6.20 kernels?

[Thetargos]

Just did a system update, and noticed there was an updated version of the kernel to 2.6.20 (at last!) but the corresponding binary blobs not available from Livna? Hmm... that's strange as usually theyre available as soon as a new kernel is available... Or is just that the mirrors are not up to date for me? (synchronized)

[jbkt23]

I usually have the other problem where the livna kmod is available before the related kernel

[Thetargos]

Well, I did search the livna repos from the web interface, and there doesn't seem to be any kmod-nvidia or kmod-fglrx for the new kernel yet. For the time being I'm still using 2.6.19 until the corresponding kmod is available...

[aids]

just wait a couple of weeks ..... im sure they will be released shortly ....... also maybe in the future just wait until you see them in the list of yum before you go ahead and update to the next kernel if you really need nvidia/ati

[Thetargos]

Nah! This is why I usually run the nvidia driver from the nvidia site, to avoid delays, and to be able to run custom kernels. I've been runnign the livna drivers for some time for testing puposes and am very pleased with them, especially the rollback to "nv"/"radeon" bit, very classy and gracious fallback.

The only problem of running the nvidia distributed driver is that it will overwrite some files (nothing that an rmp -ivh --froce of the offended package wouldn't solve), but still not to be tampered with by not experienced users in regards of some manual package management with rpm. Anyway, I'll tell the many users who do use this mechanism to hold back until they see a kmod-nvidia/kmod-fglrx in pup to at least update the kernel.

Thanks for the reply all the same ;)

[jbannon]

It's still at 2.6.19 just now. I'll live with the drop in performance until it becomes available though rather than downgrading the kernel again.

[Thetargos]

It's still at 2.6.19 just now. I'll live with the drop in performance until it becomes available though rather than downgrading the kernel again.
Well, I can say that upgrading to 2.6.20 is well worth it. I manually installed the kernel module, though (as to avoid braking the yum update process), and indeed the system feels snappier. Hope Livna will have the kmods released very soon.

[jbannon]

It's difficult to tell without the module loaded. Certainly the performance of the open source nvidia drivers is no better than it was (around 1060 FPS, no second card and no hardware acceleration - I usually get around 16000 FPS with the kmod drivers).

[Thetargos]

It's difficult to tell without the module loaded. Certainly the performance of the open source nvidia drivers is no better than it was (around 1060 FPS, no second card and no hardware acceleration - I usually get around 16000 FPS with the kmod drivers).
The "nv" driver has no acceleration whatosever, and 1060FPS without that, is rather impressive on raw CPU power (what CPU are you sporting?), assuming you are talking about glxgeras here.

[r1348]

Dunno about livna's one, but freshrpms' dkms-enabled fglrx seems to fail to build against the new 2.6.20 kernel, at least on x86_64...

[jbannon]

The "nv" driver has no acceleration whatosever, and 1060FPS without that, is rather impressive on raw CPU power (what CPU are you sporting?), assuming you are talking about glxgeras here.

My machine spec is:

Graphics: Twin nVidia GeForce 7800 GTX (256MB / card)
Motherboard: ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe (nVidia Chipset)
Ethernet: Marvel 1Gb/s add-on with nVidia on-board
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 2.8GHz
RAM: 2GB 128-bit DRAM
Sound: 24-bit Soundblaster
HD: Internal - 230 GB SATA
External - 80GB Iomega USB / Firewire
DVD - The usual DVD-writer

Yes I was talking about glxgears.

[bseltzer]

Well, I just ran a "yum list updates" at 0820 PDT toady 15 Mar 07, and lo and behold there's the 2.6.20-1.2925 kernel AND the corresponding kmod-nvidia.

I haven't done the actual updat just yet, but if past experience is any indicator, it ought to be pretty painless.

Regards,
Bert

[Thetargos]

Thanks for the heads up!

[jbannon]

Well, I just ran a "yum list updates" at 0820 PDT toady 15 Mar 07, and lo and behold there's the 2.6.20-1.2925 kernel AND the corresponding kmod-nvidia.

I haven't done the actual updat just yet, but if past experience is any indicator, it ought to be pretty painless.

Regards,
Bert

I've just put it on and it was pretty straightforward.