NVIDIA Releases Major Linux Driver With New Features, EGL

[Redi44]

I still think I will buy AMD hardware next... (I'm in the Intel camp right now...)

[carewolf]

From Aaron Plattner:


That's a bit of a whoops.

It only affects two methods though and one of them is an extension. It is not something that prevents EGL on 64bit in generel.

[Marc Driftmeyer]

Good for my old system. Completely irrelevant for my new FX-8350 system as I'm waiting to buy the R9-280/R-290 series ASAP.

[psycho_driver]

I still think I will buy AMD hardware next... (I'm in the Intel camp right now...)

You have my sympathy, not rage.

[ninez]

"You are comparing apples to oranges, my friend. Comparing EGL to GLX makes sense"
i did just that lol...
i asked if egl works better then glx even on xorg

lol. Misread that comment. Sorry about that...

As far as this driver (331.13) I'm now running the x86_64 version of it ~ which IS available on their website (directly from the Article's link, although i used my own script to grab it)... So yes, there is a 64bit version, as a matter of fact and the EGL support (according to nvidia's website) is 32bit only, for now. (as i said).

As far as this driver, i haven't noticed any regressions - but did already notice an improvement, in my own usage; I use a winelib application, where it sockets/xembeds in the VST plugin interfaces (into a gtk window). Some VSTs can resize (via their own resize-handle, wine-side vs. using the parent window's handle, gtk-side) - this can be slow / choppy. (especially, since Wine doesn't implement all of the XEmbed specification, so there are hacks to work around things)... However, with this newest driver - it does seem to be much smoother.

generally, it seems to be a bit snappier too.

[MrTheSoulz]

lol. Misread that comment. Sorry about that...

As far as this driver (331.13) I'm now running the x86_64 version of it ~ which IS available on their website (directly from the Article's link, although i used my own script to grab it)... So yes, there is a 64bit version, as a matter of fact and the EGL support (according to nvidia's website) is 32bit only, for now. (as i said).

As far as this driver, i haven't noticed any regressions - but did already notice an improvement, in my own usage; I use a winelib application, where it sockets/xembeds in the VST plugin interfaces (into a gtk window). Some VSTs can resize (via their own resize-handle, wine-side vs. using the parent window's handle, gtk-side) - this can be slow / choppy. (especially, since Wine doesn't implement all of the XEmbed specification, so there are hacks to work around things)... However, with this newest driver - it does seem to be much smoother.

generally, it seems to be a bit snappier too.

glad to hear!
now if only they realy a 64 bit of that egl and support newer kernels, i will be happy

[ninez]

glad to hear!
now if only they realy a 64 bit of that egl and support newer kernels, i will be happy

EGL will come in time, the fact that they have a public release at all, is great

as far as "newer kernels", this driver can be patched for 3.11 just fine ...anything beyond that you can't really expect nvidia to support. after all, kernel 3.12 isn't released and obviously nvidia aren't going to be basing their driver releases on (kernel) code pulled from git branches (like -tip) or anything silly like that...

[LinuxGamer]

EGL will come in time, the fact that they have a public release at all, is great

as far as "newer kernels", this driver can be patched for 3.11 just fine ...anything beyond that you can't really expect nvidia to support. after all, kernel 3.12 isn't released and obviously nvidia aren't going to be basing their driver releases on (kernel) code pulled from git branches (like -tip) or anything silly like that...

lets not forget backports to LTS kernels

[gilboa]

From Aaron Plattner:

That's a bit of a whoops.

Has anybody tried to use this feature for anything interesting?

In this case, I fail to see how anyone can support EGL in 64bit... (Unless I didn't get the point...)

- Gilboa

[ninez]

lets not forget backports to LTS kernels

lol. Please elaborate - Which LTS kernel do you think this latest nvidia driver needs to be "backported" too?

AFAICT, it already supports any of the 3.x LTS kernels. (3.10.x being the latest LTS, as well)