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Title: Nvidia Driver
Post by: 4pLaY on March 18, 2004, 11:27:13 AM
edit...

*cough* it seems i got a bit carried away here and promised something thats not there yet :Q the nvidia driver will be in the NEXT AROS build.

Id like to add these pages for people to visit to see that there acctualy IS a community starting to take shape :).

http://freespace.virgin.net/kal.amatee/aros.htm
http://reziztanzia.free.fr/aros/

Now if only more people would realise that AROS is destined to rock :-D.
Title: Re: Nvidia Driver
Post by: that_punk_guy on March 18, 2004, 11:37:22 AM
Hmmmmmz, I have a nice nVidia card :-)

I'll have to try it when I get back off my holidays. This is great news! :-D
Title: Re: Nvidia Driver
Post by: T_Bone on March 18, 2004, 11:38:22 AM
sweet
Title: Re: Nvidia Driver
Post by: bloodline on March 18, 2004, 11:57:01 AM
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4pLaY wrote:
For those that have been waiting (and nagging) for this the wait is over =) the driver might still need a bit of tweaking wich im sure it will get in the next couple of days if needed! nevertheless its now part of the latest AROS build so go and check it out :).

Id like to add these pages for people to visit to see that there acctualy IS a community starting to take shape :).

http://freespace.virgin.net/kal.amatee/aros.htm
http://reziztanzia.free.fr/aros/

Now if only more people would realise that AROS is destined to rock :-D.


oooo, and a sneaky peak at NicJA's theming engine :-o


Click here is you are lazy :-) (http://freespace.virgin.net/kal.amatee/themedwindow.jpg)  
Title: Re: Nvidia Driver
Post by: whabang on March 18, 2004, 12:02:17 PM
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4pLaY wrote:
Now if only more people would realise that AROS is destined to rock :-D.

Hehe! A few more years and it might even be usable! :lol:
/me hides
Title: Re: Nvidia Driver
Post by: 4pLaY on March 18, 2004, 12:04:55 PM
Hoho ill bet you 1000usd that AROS _WILL_ be more then usable in 2004! care to bet against? :).
Title: Re: Nvidia Driver
Post by: bloodline on March 18, 2004, 12:09:02 PM
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4pLaY wrote:
Hoho ill bet you 1000usd that AROS _WILL_ be more then usable in 2004! care to bet against? :).


I'll take some of that...!  :-D I'm with Ola.
Title: Re: Nvidia Driver
Post by: T_Bone on March 18, 2004, 12:13:38 PM
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T_Bone wrote:
sweet


whoops! The nvidia driver isn't in this build! :-o  :-)
Title: Re: Nvidia Driver
Post by: bloodline on March 18, 2004, 12:14:14 PM
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that_punk_guy wrote:
Hmmmmmz, I have a nice nVidia card :-)

I'll have to try it when I get back off my holidays. This is great news! :-D


You aer going to HAVE to change your avatar... I'm having indecent thoughts about you :oops:

hum... no just keep it up for a little longer ;-)
Title: Re: Nvidia Driver
Post by: that_punk_guy on March 18, 2004, 01:20:23 PM
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bloodline wrote:
You aer going to HAVE to change your avatar... I'm having indecent thoughts about you :oops:

hum... no just keep it up for a little longer ;-)


The irony is, I was thinking the other day that she looks (a little bit) like you in that picture. Hmmm....
Title: Re: Nvidia Driver
Post by: bloodline on March 18, 2004, 02:25:55 PM
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that_punk_guy wrote:
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bloodline wrote:
You aer going to HAVE to change your avatar... I'm having indecent thoughts about you :oops:

hum... no just keep it up for a little longer ;-)


The irony is, I was thinking the other day that she looks (a little bit) like you in that picture. Hmmm....


OMG!!! :-o It's true.. I must be a narsisist :-(
Title: Re: Nvidia Driver
Post by: angrybrit on March 18, 2004, 02:39:40 PM
I wish they'd update the Boot ISO package.  It's dated november 2K3. :-(

There must have been some improvement from then and now.
Title: Re: Nvidia Driver
Post by: bloodline on March 18, 2004, 02:52:46 PM
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angrybrit wrote:
I wish they'd update the Boot ISO package.  It's dated november 2K3. :-(

There must have been some improvement from then and now.


Live life on the bLeading Edge... go nightly! :-D
Title: Re: Nvidia Driver
Post by: dammy on March 18, 2004, 03:15:28 PM
by bloodline on 2004/3/18 9:52:46

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Live life on the bLeading Edge... go nightly!


I still think catagories should be Stable and Unstable.  Snapshots and Nightly catagories are a bit confusing, IMO.

Dammy
Title: Re: Nvidia Driver
Post by: 4pLaY on March 19, 2004, 10:29:51 AM
Soooooo.... has anyone tried the build WITH nvidia driver yet? :Q.
Title: Re: Nvidia Driver
Post by: DFergATL on March 19, 2004, 03:05:40 PM
I tried yesterdays build (3/18) and the NVidia driver was not on it.  Does anyone know if the 3/19 build includes it?
Title: Re: Nvidia Driver
Post by: bloodline on March 19, 2004, 03:26:36 PM
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DFergATL wrote:
I tried yesterdays build (3/18) and the NVidia driver was not on it.  Does anyone know if the 3/19 build includes it?


It was added to the main build last night AFAIK, so it should be in tonight's build :-)
Title: Re: Nvidia Driver
Post by: DFergATL on March 19, 2004, 03:38:32 PM
Thanks
Title: Re: Nvidia Driver
Post by: dammy on March 19, 2004, 03:38:38 PM
Sweet!  Way to go Michal!

Dammy
No Schedule and Rockin'!
Title: Re: Nvidia Driver
Post by: falemagn on March 19, 2004, 05:08:49 PM
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Does anyone know if the 3/19 build includes it?


It does.
Title: Re: Nvidia Driver
Post by: angrybrit on March 19, 2004, 10:03:24 PM
I dled the nightly build and burned it to a CD.

It's very nice and works fine with my NVIDIA GFX 5200. :-)
Title: Re: Nvidia Driver
Post by: falemagn on March 19, 2004, 11:50:06 PM
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It's very nice and works fine with my NVIDIA GFX 5200.  


Noticed any speed improvement?
Title: Re: Nvidia Driver
Post by: Karlos on March 20, 2004, 12:21:16 AM
Excuse the ignorance....

So, is this a 2D nVidia driver, 3D, nForce chipset stuff or ?

I thought nVidia were a bit closed off to alternate OS driver development.

Anyway, sounds interesting....but, then most amiga related stuff does :-)
Title: Re: Nvidia Driver
Post by: falemagn on March 20, 2004, 12:55:40 AM
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Excuse the ignorance....

So, is this a 2D nVidia driver, 3D, nForce chipset stuff or ?


It's a 2D driver for most of the NVIDIA chipsets produced so far. It's successfully been tested with TNT2, Geforce2/3/4 and nForce, but as said it should work with most NVIDIA chipsets.

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I thought nVidia were a bit closed off to alternate OS driver development.


There are a couple of open source drivers for NVIDIA cards, one comes from XFree86, the other comes from OBOS, both are licensed under a MIT (BSD-like) license. The AROS driver is partly based on the XFree86 one, but it also contains some original stuff not found in any of the other drivers already available.
Title: Re: Nvidia Driver
Post by: DFergATL on March 20, 2004, 02:13:24 AM
Tried it out.  Works Great!!  Wanderer did feel faster, but it is hard to tell really.  Is it possiable to change the resolution yet?
Title: Re: Nvidia Driver
Post by: falemagn on March 20, 2004, 02:49:26 AM
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Tried it out. Works Great!! Wanderer did feel faster, but it is hard to tell really.


Tried the Opaque commodity?

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Is it possiable to change the resolution yet?


We lack a screenmode preference ap. Yesterday I thought I'd write one, but got carried away by other more important stuff. Perhaps I'll work on it during this week-end, but don't hold your breath ;-)

Title: Re: Nvidia Driver
Post by: DFergATL on March 20, 2004, 05:05:46 AM
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We lack a screenmode preference ap. Yesterday I thought I'd write one, but got carried away by other more important stuff. Perhaps I'll work on it during this week-end, but don't hold your breath

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Thanks!  I was just curious(sp).  The driver is great though!!!  Can't wait for TCP/IP...


sorry, horrible speller, to tired to care tonight.
Title: Re: Nvidia Driver
Post by: virgola on March 20, 2004, 09:13:46 AM
Tried out the driver on a GeForce2Go (mobile version on my laptop): vertical colorized lines and nothing else.
Completely unusable.

Cdrom continue to load and *maybe* wanderer it's working... but how do I know?

Anyway: seems to me aros it's progressing a lot! Good works guys!
Just a thing: what about improve your main scope of being compatible with OS3.1 and starts to consider the way OS4 behave (library access, memory management, ...)?
Title: Re: Nvidia Driver
Post by: falemagn on March 20, 2004, 11:15:33 AM
@virgola

Thanks for the info, we'll look into it!
Title: Re: Nvidia Driver
Post by: darkwave on March 20, 2004, 11:45:21 AM
Works great on my cheap GeForce4. Tried a couple of nightlies before this one which failed but everything seems to be ok again now. Keep up the good work everyone!  :-)
Title: Re: Nvidia Driver
Post by: restore2003 on March 20, 2004, 01:01:44 PM
My Asus Geforce fx5600XT 128mb wont work with the nvidia driver  :-(
After selecting nvidia in the bootmenu, the initial boot procedure keeps repeating over and over again, think i saw a "couldnt load nvidia.***" line.

the text is going real fast. didnt have a chance of looking properly.

Title: Re: Nvidia Driver
Post by: amigean on March 20, 2004, 02:11:15 PM
well done guys.... I am very glad whenever I hear news of AROS' progress...:-D

I am incredibly optimistic about AROS - please keep it up guys...I have a feeling that this may be the best thing that has happened to the amiga in a long time.

(I have to remember to contribute to the bounties. /me bangs my head)
Title: Re: Nvidia Driver
Post by: dammy on March 20, 2004, 04:40:37 PM
by amigean on 2004/3/20 9:11:15

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(I have to remember to contribute to the bounties. /me bangs my head)


TeamAROS takes Paypal donations via arosdonation@thenostromo.com.  Suggested minimum amount is $5 USD (~4 Euro).  Please send an email stating what bounty (or new bounty you want to start) you want your money applied to: damocles@thenostromo.com.

Dammy
No Schedule and Rockin'!
Title: Re: Nvidia Driver
Post by: dammy on March 20, 2004, 07:50:31 PM
by virgola on 2004/3/20 4:13:46

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Tried out the driver on a GeForce2Go (mobile version on my laptop): vertical colorized lines and nothing else.
Completely unusable.


Did you try it via VGA to a monitor?

Dammy
Title: Re: Nvidia Driver
Post by: restore2003 on March 20, 2004, 08:18:39 PM
 My Asus Geforce fx5600XT 128mb wont work with the nvidia driver
After selecting nvidia in the bootmenu, the initial boot procedure keeps repeating over and over again, think i saw a "couldnt load nvidia.***" line.

the text is going real fast. didnt have a chance of looking properly.
Title: Re: Nvidia Driver
Post by: virgola on March 20, 2004, 10:20:33 PM
Yeah!
It's working on an external vga monitor!
Great!

So why it wasn't working?
Frequency sync problem I suppose.
How do I choose a proper refresh rate?
Title: Re: Nvidia Driver
Post by: bloodline on March 20, 2004, 10:22:08 PM
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virgola wrote:
Yeah!
It's working on an external vga monitor!
Great!

So why it wasn't working?
Frequency sync problem I suppose.
How do I choose a proper refresh rate?


Yup, a refesh rate problem. At the moment it's hard coded... Who knows what the future may hold :-)
Title: CreativeLabs C6710
Post by: adam on March 21, 2004, 04:31:12 AM
My Creative Labs BLASTER C6710 NV4:RIVA-TNT 16Mb works good with the nvidia driver too.

Olivier Adam
Title: Re: Nvidia Driver
Post by: DFergATL on March 21, 2004, 07:28:18 PM
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falemagn wrote:
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Tried it out. Works Great!! Wanderer did feel faster, but it is hard to tell really.


Tried the Opaque commodity?

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Is it possiable to change the resolution yet?


We lack a screenmode preference ap. Yesterday I thought I'd write one, but got carried away by other more important stuff. Perhaps I'll work on it during this week-end, but don't hold your breath ;-)




Tried out the Opaque commodity.  That is cool!!!
Title: Re: Nvidia Driver
Post by: dammy on March 23, 2004, 07:06:32 PM
For those with TFT screens and having trouble with the nVidia driver, grab AROS after tonight's build and give it another try.

Dammy