NVIDIA Pre-Releases A New Linux Driver

[LLStarks]

no, it shouldn't.

supporting optimus' on-the-fly GPU switching is not the problem nor the immediate goal.

the problem is that the nvidia GPU can't be used at all unless developers find a way to reliably feed nvidia GPU output through the intel GPU framebuffer.

[EarthMind]

lolno. x, mesa, intel, etc all need to overhauled before that happens. an nvidia binary can't do that.

I have no knowledge of the technical parts but this Nvidia driver should make it possible to use my GT 525M under Linux, or not? Or is support for Optimus essential?

[elanthis]

XPS 15 has NVIDIA hardware in it, at least the newer ones.

It was one of the machines I was considering before I went with an ASUS G73jW-XR1. Friendly advice: don't ever, ever buy the ASUS. Complete nightmare with barely functional hardware (in Windows; stable Linux support is still a distant dream), and during RMA repairs ASUS failed to fix a single one out of 7 distinct problems it was sent in for, stole the network card I had installed by the reseller, and then didn't bother to package the machine up properly in the slightest for return shipping so it got damaged. ASUS is just horrible.

[LLStarks]

Awesome, I hope my XPS 15 will be able to run Linux now

lolno. x, mesa, intel, etc all need to overhauled before that happens. an nvidia binary can't do that.

[lem79]

haha, thanks ldesnogu .. yes, milliseconds indeed. I confused milliseconds with centiseconds so my brain defaulted to the next in line, nanoseconds :P without any data integrity checks..

[mirv]

49.7 day resets and/or problems are surprisingly common, particularly with older game servers (used to see it crop up in game changelogs from time to time).
Clock counter overflows - just when you think you have them handled, one more issue pops up!

[ldesnogu]

Sounds suspiciously like a 32bit int overflowing..

49.7 days = 4,294,080 seconds.. 32bit ints (unsigned) overflow at 4,294,967,296 .. right? Maybe it's a nanosecond counter that overflowed.. though that might be 14 hours out *shrug* Still interesting..

Make that a millisecond counter and you got it

[lem79]

The only other change in this 270.41.03 build compared to the last 270.30 Linux driver is fixing a bug that would cause the X.Org Server to hang every 49.7 days on 32-bit systems.

Sounds suspiciously like a 32bit int overflowing..

49.7 days = 4,294,080 seconds.. 32bit ints (unsigned) overflow at 4,294,967,296 .. right? Maybe it's a nanosecond counter that overflowed.. though that might be 14 hours out *shrug* Still interesting..

[deanjo]

says that WebM may soon be coming to VDPAU as part of this new feature-set.

Nothing confirmed yet, just a gut feeling. Still waiting to get some official word back.

[EarthMind]

Awesome, I hope my XPS 15 will be able to run Linux now