Kernel version. When updating your alsa version, if you decided to update your driver (in addition to the daily user-space snapshots), it is important that you know what kernel version you are using. Welcome to LinuxQuestions.org, a friendly and active Linux Community. You are currently viewing LQ as a guest. By joining our community you will have the ability to post topics, receive our newsletter, use the advanced search, subscribe to threads and access many other special features.
This repository contains a Linux kernel driver for RME MADI FX cards. It isstill work in progress. Once finished, it'll be submitted to the mainlinekernel.
Until then, everything may change at any time, so don't expect the userpsaceAPI to be stable.
Disclaimer
This driver has been developed via ssh on a remote machine with a single staticMADI crossover connection to a PCI RME MADI card, so not all ports have beentested. Most importantly, the channel mappings might be wrong.
Like always, no guarantees at all, use at your own risk. Feel free to reportproblems and patches to improve the driver.
NEWS
2018-06-03: Updated driver source to compile on 4.15+ kernels.
Installation
Clone this repository.
For all kernels before 4.15, run
first. Then, depending on your kernel version, run the following additionalcommands:
For all kernels until 3.14.x, run
For all kernels until 3.7.x, run
For all kernels until 3.4.x, also run
Then, run
as root. Use
alsamixer
or amixer
to adjust settings.Status
- PCM playback/capture working (SS and DS tested, QS untested)
- MIDI working
- All card settings working (e.g. TX64, SMUX, AESpro, WC-Term,WC-singlespeed...)
- Slave Mode/External clock selection working
- Mirror-MADI1-to-Out2+3 maybe working (untested)
- Redundancy mode maybe working (untested)
- ioctls implemented (see ioctl.c)
- Static mixer working (fixed 1:1 mapping)
- DSP NOT working. RME doesn't intend to release any information regardingthe DSP.
- Adjustable mixer NOT working (needs new userspace tools)
- Levelmetering NOT working (maybe wrong, needs new userspace tools)
TODO
- Cleanup code (still contains plenty of the HDSPM driver)
- Implement new userspace tools (see above)
- Submit to mainline
Hacking
If you want to work on mixer/level support, compile with
make BROKEN_WIP=1
to include the broken mixer/level kernel code. The name is pretty obvious, it'smeant for driver/tool developers, not users.
Acknowledgement
Thanks to IOSONO for hosting the card andproviding the remote login. Kudos to Andre Schramm for taking care of the setup.
Thanks to RME for temporarily providing the card.Special thanks to Martin Björnsen for the OSX driver source.
Kudos to Marcin Pączkowski from the Center For Digital Arts And ExperimentalMedia (DXARTS) for setting up remote accessand testbeds to further improve the driver.
Contact
In case of trouble or questions, send me an email:
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I purchased my XPS 410 with the 7900GS back in Nov. I was surprised it was noisey. My old Gateway was very quiet. I long ago gave up with fixes, and installed a Zalman cooler. In order to get things working properly, I had to disable the auto fan controller, so now, though the fan runs in full speed all the time, it is much quieter.
The sound does not vary at all at startup, in XP mode or in Media Center mode. I only get a speedup when copying DVDs.
I was prepared to install Vista. I have the Vista disk from Dell, but have chosen to stay with XP for the forseeable future due to all the issues I hear about Vista.
Mr mom, Congrats on a new system:) Geforce 7900gs 256mb will be fine for movies and all on a 2407 version A03. I watch movies with Power DVD 7 on my PC and thru component in with a stand alone progressive 480P dvd player. Be sure the manufacturers specifications have at least one DVI output from the video card and it being that new of a card it should and will:), I just had to say that. Go to this link and I pasted some specs here: Just answered my above statement below:) Click on “Help choose me”.
Click on the tab: “Compare Side by Side” Specs like this for the card you selected: 256MB NVIDIA GeForceTM 7900GS DVI Support Yes, dual Display Rotation Support4 Yes Dual-display Capable Yes TV Out Yes (s-video) Dual-link DVI for High-Resolution Digital Flat Panels Yes Maximum Resolution(DVI Flat Panel) 2560x1600 Maximum Resolution(CRT)1920x1200 “I'm primarily using the system for Design work” 4 Gigs of Ram not necessary unless you are a graphics designer:), and I see you are, Photoshop expert or do a lot of huge batch processing, but that’s up to you. Two 1 gig sticks of ram are plenty for most users. It’ll leave two slots open for 2 more sticks if you decide to do it later. I use 2 x 512MB= 1 gig now, my next build will be 2 x 1 gig for 2 gigs.
According to U.S. Prices you could save $330.00 on ram. You are probably set on 4 Gigs and would get 8 Gigs if it would fit:). 2 x 512 in dual channel usually will run faster than two 1 gig sticks in dual channel. Will it run let's say Half Life 2 on the monitor alright? Yes, it should be excellent, all eye candy on full.
“supposed to get a 360 for christmas (BLESS GRANDMA!)” Yes, and bless your Grandma and all the Grandma’s around the world:) Enjoy your new system:) Happy Holidays to All:):):) Message Edited by all the facts on 01:56 AM. My NVIDIA control panel stopped displaying options for cloning multiple diplays. Descargar La Muerte Os Sienta Tan Bien Hd 1 here. Any idea how to get this back.
Whe I click multiple display options in NVIDIA control panel it only gives one option for 'single display'. Previously I had 3 options. I was playing notebook though an HDTV and now options are gone.
Also, I did some browsing and saw comments on fixing overscan ussue using TV wizard. I do not have that option in my NVIDIA contorl panel either. I have a P105-9337 running Vista Home Premium with NVIDIA GeForce GO 7900GS card running forceware 97.54 and driver 7. I am lost and have no idea how to get the functions back or fix the overscan issue when running on my HDTV.any advice is greatly appreciated.
Hi there, after a Pacman -Syu update my gnome3 is all messed up!My wallpaper is blue and i cant change it, alsa devices are gone in gnome-settings-configuration.And i had to reconfigure my keyboard. I guess it happend after i updated the xf86-video-vesa to version 2.3.0-7.im using nvidia and nvidia-utils and i also tried to install nouveau but it didnt help! Sorry if this is a repost, but I just recently installed Windows 7 32-bit on my P105-S9722 and couldn't find a display driver that would work properly. The driver that supposedly fixes the stutter issue on Vista did not fix the issue for me on Windows 7. The symptoms were the same as what you see posted all around the interent, however I had difficulty sifting through all the form information to find a good driver.
After trying all the drivers from the Toshiba and nVidia sites this is the one that works great for me: In case the link breaks, you can find it under beta/archived drives for the GeForce Go 7900GS - Windows Vista 32-bit. The version is 175.32 WHQL. After extracting the files I had to manually delete all other nVidia drivers from my computer and then do a 'Have Disk' install to force Windows 7 to install the driver.
Despite the warnings it installs fine and now I can play games with great FPS and no 'stutter' even after a few hours of constant play. Hope this helps someone else. I am about to return this computer I purchased 1-22-09, hpe-180t pavillion desktop, 3.07ghz i7, 8gb mem, 300 gb 10k hd plus 640gb 7400 hd. This message keeps recurring and the computer's fan races upon putting to sleep occasionally with no response except to shut down with on/off switch. It can occur anytime. I tried the seller and hp.
I've reverted to old setting about 8 times and checked for updates to driver. I am windows updated. I think nvidia created a short. Can anybody help?
Should I get the best radeon or the 1.8 gig nvidia? I am trying the download suggested but wary of the short. I was looking at the updated FlashBios notes for the E1705, which stated that support was added for the Nvidia GeForce 7900GS card, including temp optimizations. Currently the E1705 has as its options the 7800Go and an ATI X400 (?) The GeForce 7900GS card is currently only available at the XPSM1710 model. Any thoughts on buying an XPS 7900GS card and putting it in the E1705? I think the E1705 chassis is fairly similar to the XPS model (minus a few bells and whistles). What do you techies think?
Recently after purchasing a new case/power supply and doubling my ram, I have run into some problems with Quake 3. After rebuilding into my new case, I began to hear a strange noise, which I thought was the fan on my gpu. After this started, Quake 3 seems to skip frames and simply does not run as smoothly. I jumped to conclusions a bit to quick and replaced my gfx card with a 8800 gts, but Im still having the same problem. Here are my specs: Asus M2N MotherboardAMD 5200+ 2.6ghz dual core2GB ram (before rebuild) 4GB ram (after rebuild)evga nvidia 7900gs (before rebuild) evga nvidia 8800gts (after rebuild)Antec NeoPower 650 650W ATX12V (after rebuild) Oddly enough, whatever is causing this lag doesnt seem to affect the FPS I get in-game.
If I turn off the FPS cap, I get a steady 700FPS. Ive had the same problems on Arch 32/64 and Ubuntu 32/64. I should also point out that the noise I hear only happens in-game. I also heard this noise on a web page using flash, specifically when flash was used to blend one image into another. While the noise is less apparent after changing video cards, I still hear it occasionally. Any suggestions on what might be causing this lag or any tests I can run to figure it out would be great. EDIT: The FPS does in fact drop briefly when the game lags.
Last edited by justin (2008-12-15 01:27:05). I have the same problem when playing these games using a live cd.
Next is a Memtest. EDIT: Memtest was fine. So I now know it is not the hard drive or memory. Whats left is the CPU, the gfx card and my motherboard.
Any suggested tools for testing these? EDIT #2: I ran glxgears, and when fullscreened the gears noticeably skip. Here is the output, not that it has much useful info: 42084 frames in 5.0 seconds = 8406.283 FPS 41918 frames in 5.0 seconds = 8374.288 FPS 41382 frames in 5.0 seconds = 8272.180 FPS 41650 frames in 5.0 seconds = 8323.735 FPS 41582 frames in 5.0 seconds = 8300.653 FPS 41561 frames in 5.0 seconds = 8302.409 FPS 26164 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5213.594 FPS 9271 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1854.175 FPS 9306 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1861.137 FPS 9237 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1847.315 FPS. Was looking to update the driver for my 7900GS and went to the nVidia website and the latest drivers there (91.31) are newer than the one installed in my system. I read the release notes and it specifically states that is supports the GeForce 7900 GS (PCI-E).
However, when I go to update the driver, the software tells me there is no hardware in my system compatible with the drivers. I need the latest drivers to work as im experiencing a problem with a few of my games. Can anybody help? Picture: http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/3009/geforce7900gsdriverissuequ7.jpg.
I have an XPS 410 with the nvidia 7900GS 256MB card. Have had this for about 1 year.
When I got it, I had to go into Power Settings and set it to power saving or else the GPU fan would run at full speed all the time sounding like a train going through my office. I am still using the original driver that came with my system and Dell has failed to post a new driver for this card. For my system,Dell still shows a driver dated Feb. My question is this-does anyone out there have the same system as mine-Vista Ultimate, 3GB RAM with this nvidia card that is using a newer driver that would allow me to change the power scheme back to say balanced, and have the fan then slow down shortly after booting. If so, could you please tell what driver version you are using and if it is working OK for you. Thanks for any input you folks might have.
Hi everyone, Yesterday Ive installed the new nvidia driver nvidia-177.80-1 and after its installation, and whenever the new driver is loaded, the computer fan enters in an endless loop of stoping- running (30 sec. At most) - stoping.
In order to check if this was really a driver side effect, Ive downgraded to the previous version nvidia-173, and in fact the problem disappeared. Has anyone had a similar behavior with this new driver? How do I solve this? Cheers, Last edited by zycklon (2008-10-10 10:36:33). Im building a new PC win a NX6600 TD256E. I have no problems until I start testing 3D applications that hang.
Then I noticed that the GPU fan of the VGA card stop working after the Windows XP logo get off the screen. First I was using the last driver I get in the Nvidia home page (ver. 71.84), then I download the ver. 71.22 from the MSI site with the same fan problem. I tried to install the drivers in the VGA cd drivers and I couldn´t install them.
Then I tried a release 66.93 from the Nvidia site and this driver not turn off the fan. Whats going on here? Is this VGA card not compatible with the lates 7x drivers? What I can do? Same problem with my NX6600 128 PCI Express.
This story is incredible. I tried the latest forceware and modified XG drivers but always I got the same result: the fan stops after the driver installation (after reboot, the fa stop immediatly after the Windows XP LOGO). The fan only works with the MSI version downloaded with MSI Live update. Is it possible tha I have to use only MSI drivers? If this is the answer I recommend NOT TO BUY MSI card at all! Has someone solved the problem in some way? Bought a Dimension 9200 with Nvidia 7900GS and 2007WFP.
Noted that Windows Update said that there was a hardware driver update for the 2007WFP. Checked the Monitor under Display Properties., and it just said Plug and Play Monitor with a generic Microsoft driver so I downloaded the 2007WFP driver (R113372) from Dell, unzipped it, and attempted to install by going into Control Panel Display Display Properties Settings Advanced Monitor Properties Driver Update Driver and directing the driver updater in the Wizard to the C: dell drivers R1WFPb folder. Windows 7 Black Screen issue with Nvidia GeForce 7900GS after editing screen resolution. Restarted my Laptop (Dell XPS m1710). Got passed windows logo and nothing. Computer still on but black screen. 4 hrs later loading onto SAFE MODE removing Drivers for NVIDIA restarted and I could then log on again with basic VGA Windows driver.
Updated my BIOS from V04 toV07. Ran a CCleaner for registery clean up that might have been missed and a clean of folders. Updated all Microsoft Updates. I also did a Windows repair both from F8 in the begining and repair when I had access to windows 7 via standard VGA.
Eventually I had a message saying that this could not be repaired and send message to Microsoft. I also saw a messgae posted thatthe cardmight be overheated. (Can't be as it was just when I started the Laptop). I also opened the laptop and cleaned and serviced the laptop hope that it might be this. I then after 4 hrs of all the above decided to download the latest driver of the NVIDIA GEFORCE GO 7900 GS. Thinking that all updates, All Drivers were up to date and everything running smoothly again.Completed the install and asked to restart to action the new software and guess what it started again BLACK SCREEN. I think what is happening isthe registery is keeping my changes of the resolution, sharpness and brigtness even when I have uninstalled the drivers.
But when I load on with the standard VGA it doeas not have access to these registary lines from NVIDIA. And when I reload it remebers these strings and the black screen starts again. I don't think from all the comenets I have researched that it is the hardware that is at fault.
The software is vital for me andif anyone can help it would be most appreciated Whilst I was thinking about it I downloaded Windows 7 from the internet and don't have a disk with all the drivers. If we are going to rely on disks to resolve any issues in the future this is not forward thinking and we should not have to pay for disks if we are still going to rely on them!Just a thought I had. I recently upgraded from 7900GS to a 9600GT. I installed the 64bit beta drivers 173.08 (the only ones as far as I can tell that support 9600GT). Now when I try to using my openbox setup with xcompmgr, draging or resizing windows causes X cpu usage to go up to 100% and it is very laggy.
I dont know if it is just the beta drivers or something else. Hi Im running Arch64 Linux (kernel 2.6.19) on this motherboard. I cant get GKrellm to see the various sensors and fan speeds etc. On the motherboard. GKrellm picks up the temp on my Nvidia 7900GS ok. I have all the lm_sensors etc installed and have the daemons running such that if I enter sensors in a terminal it will report the cpu and Via chip temps.
This is my first MSI board. Are MSI boards a little different in reporting this information? Is there anything I can do?
I really like to be able to keep an eye on the running temps. Twice in the last few years I picked up a failing cpu fan and avoided a burnt cpu!
I dont have problems with gKrellm with K8Neo4-F and Ubunto. Check configuration of gKrellm. If you see in console sensors and all works, the problems is in gKrellm. Stenly@stenly:~$ sensors w83627ehf-isa-0290 Adapter: ISA adapter Case Fan: 2481 RPM (min = 1205 RPM, div = 16) CPU Fan: 986 RPM (min = 1704 RPM, div = 8) VGA Fan: 2361 RPM (min = 28125 RPM, div = 2) Sys Temp: +41°C (high = +45°C, hyst = +40°C) CPU Temp: +39.0°C (high = +45.0°C, hyst = +40.0°C) VGA Temp: +43.0°C (high = +80.0°C, hyst = +75.0°C) stenly@stenly:~$.
I bought a dimension 9200, 2,1ghz, 2gb ram, nVidia 7900GS a little under a year ago, and it has worked so and so. But around two months ago I started getting some lag in games and other 3d applications, so I went to the nVidia site and downloaded the newest driver. I uninstalled the old one, installed the new one, but this didn't help on the lag -at all- and and it even borked up the graphics completely.
Lots of infinite polygons, 3D models looking like weird alien polygon flowers, horrible lag and sudden crashes. *** Hardware Malfunction Call your hardware vendor for support NMI: Parity Check/Memory Parity Error *** The system has halted *** Keeping these string new.
There are a lot of people on the web and on this forum with this problem with little commonality and even less success in resolution. Hoping that Dell will come up with a resolution!! I got mine 1 day after a 7900gs upgrade with the Dell driver from an ATI 1400x. That is a lot of money for a blue screen.
Can this be related to the electro discharge off the bottom of the laptop that some report. Why does our ac adapter have no ground plug? Hi all after i install the new update of my Nvidia Geforce GT 230M there is a small icon appear near the clock and when dobul click on it trying to open nvidia contorl panel there is a error message appear say (cant open nvidia control panel because an older version is running ) to please help me because i dont have any problem with the previous version. I updated my driver, June 2011, with the windows patches and my performance went into the garbage dump. StarCraft II which was working fine; now locked up and died after a few mins of play.
I use my PC for software development which I have been doing for over 30 years now, but never saw a driver issue like this before. I cured my problem by rolling back the Nvidia driver update. After that all was good as expected. I don&9;t know which part of the update is CRAP, but I do know that rolling it back should fix the problem. The PC that I was running it on is a good PC, 2 dual core CPU&9;s (4 countem) 8 GB of Ram running Windows 7.
I think QA must have missed a few problems on this update. I don&9;t play many games, but StarCraft II and Total War is why I updated the graphics card. If I can&9;t play those two games then it&9;s not worth it. Good luck on your PC. I found many users complaining about video stutter problems with P100/P105 series and as I have this problem since I bought my laptop I spent a lot of time trying to solve it. I have a P105-S921 (Bios 4.7 - Nvidia Driver 195.81 - LaptopVideo2Go - Windows 7) and unlike some users reported my gpu fan does work but I had stutter problems since I bought the laptop.
I tried many combinations of drivers, bios and windows versions and I have monitored the cpu, hd, mem load. I always thought the problem was in the cpu, cause when the game stutters the cpu load drop to half of its previous state. Finally, reading the nvidia forums (just search for 'stutter')I discovered the real problem - gpu temp!
I've installed Rivatuner and since then I have monitored the gpu temps (50ºC Idle - 75/80ºC Gaming). The problem is that when the gpu is close to 80ºC, to be exactly at 79ºC its stutters. Always at 79ºC.
The fps drop lasts one or two seconds until the temp reach 77ºC and so the cycle begins! So I changed the fan speed to 100% with Rivaturner and temps stays below 78-77ºC for longer periods of time without any stutter, but when it reaches 79ºC, no matter that the fan is already at 100%, the game stutters. 80ºC seems to be the max gpu temp allowed.
Someone has an idea to move this treshold to higher temps or to remove it? Any other Bios has a higher temp limit? Toshiba knows the problem is real since this series was released and they made several atempts (new bios and one newvideodriver in years.)to fix it but never solved it. I'm upset cause I like my laptop but when you call the support and they say they cannot help cause your warranty has expired it's sad.I just continue to try solving this problem cause there are many users in the same boat. I found many users complaining about video stutter problems with P100/P105 series and as I have this problem since I bought my laptop I spent a lot of time trying to solve it. I have a P105-S921 (Bios 4.7 - Nvidia Driver 195.81 - LaptopVideo2Go - Windows 7) and unlike some users reported my gpu fan does work but I had stutter problems since I bought the laptop. I tried many combinations of drivers, bios and windows versions and I have monitored the cpu, hd, mem load.
I always thought the problem was in the cpu, cause when the game stutters the cpu load drop to half of its previous state. Finally, reading the nvidia forums (just search for 'stutter')I discovered the real problem - gpu temp! I've installed Rivatuner and since then I have monitored the gpu temps (50ºC Idle - 75/80ºC Gaming). The problem is that when the gpu is close to 80ºC, to be exactly at 79ºC its stutters. Always at 79ºC. The fps drop lasts one or two seconds until the temp reach 77ºC and so the cycle begins! So I changed the fan speed to 100% with Rivaturner and temps stays below 78-77ºC for longer periods of time without any stutter, but when it reaches 79ºC, no matter that the fan is already at 100%, the game stutters.
80ºC seems to be the max gpu temp allowed. Someone has an idea to move this treshold to higher temps or to remove it? Any other Bios has a higher temp limit? Toshiba knows the problem is real since this series was released and they made several atempts (new bios and one newvideodriver in years.)to fix it but never solved it. I'm upset cause I like my laptop but when you call the support and they say they cannot help cause your warranty has expired it's sad.I just continue to try solving this problem cause there are many users in the same boat. While playing Fallout New Vegas the computer froze. I was forced to turn it off from the power switch.
When I restarted there was blue dotted lines going up and down the screen vertically then it bluescreened. The blue screen said that 'nvlddkm.sys' was responsible which is something to do with my graphics card driver. I tried booting into safe mode and uninstalling the drivers and the card from the device manager and reinstalled everything but it kept happening. System Info: Dell Dimension 9200, Vista-32bit, Nvidia 7900gs, Intel Core 2 CPU 2.13GHz 2.13GHz, 2GB Ram.
Hi, Check this thread for information using BlueScreenView, MyEventViewer and other methods to troubleshoot BlueScreens - top 3 replies (+1 other). We can analyze the minidumps if you make them available from the SkyDrive or other file sharing sites. Zip or upload the contents of C: Windows minidump Use SkyDrive to upload collected files ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Also do this so you can see the likely bluescreens. Windows Vista automatically restarts if your PC encounters an error that causes it to crash. (also Windows 7) Check with these utilities to see if any information can be gathered: This is an excellent tool for posting Blue Screen Error Information BlueScreenView - Free -scans all your minidump files created during 'blue screen of death' crashes, and displays the information about all crashes in one table.
------------- MyEventViewer can be checked at the time of the BlueScreen (BSOD) to within a second or so of the time of the BSOD to provide more information as to possible cause - see TIP. MyEventViewer - Free -a simple alternative to the standard event viewer of Windows. TIP - Options - Advanced Filter allows you to see a time frame instead of the whole file - set it to a bit before andafter the time of the BSOD. ------------ AppCrashView - Free -a small utility for Windows Vista and Windows 7 that displays the details of all application crashes occurred in your system. The crashes information is extracted from the.wer files created by the Windows Error Reporting (WER) component of the operating system every time that a crash is occurred.
AppCrashView also allows you to easily save the crashes list to text/csv/html/xml file. Hope this helps.
Rob Brown - Microsoft MVP - Windows Expert - Consumer: Bicycle - Mark Twain said it right. I am about to return this computer I purchased 1-22-09, hpe-180t pavillion desktop, 3.07ghz i7, 8gb mem, 300 gb 10k hd plus 640gb 7400 hd. This message keeps recurring and the computer's fan races upon putting to sleep occasionally with no response except to shut down with on/off switch.It can occur anytime.I tried the seller and hp.I've reverted to old setting about 8 times and checked for updates to driver. I amwindows updated. I think nvidia created a short. Can anybody help?
Should I get the best radeon or the 1.8 gig nvidia? I am about to return this computer I purchased 1-22-09, hpe-180t pavillion desktop, 3.07ghz i7, 8gb mem, 300 gb 10k hd plus 640gb 7400 hd. This message keeps recurring and the computer's fan races upon putting to sleep occasionally with no response except to shut down with on/off switch.It can occur anytime.I tried the seller and hp.I've reverted to old setting about 8 times and checked for updates to driver. I amwindows updated. I think nvidia created a short. Can anybody help? Should I get the best radeon or the 1.8 gig nvidia?
I have a T61p w/ NVIDIA 570 chips.After updating the BIOS to 2.21-1.08 and NVIDIA driver to 7. (6/9/2008),I had some problems to run graphic demanding drawing/displaying software.Rolled back to a 7.15.11.145 (6/25/2007) driver, problem resolved.Since all of us have different software installed, it's your call to try the new driver.If it doesn't work, just roll it back. T42p 2373HVU P M 745 (1.8GHz) WinXP Pro 2GB RAM ATI FireGL T2 128MB 15 UXGAT61p 6459CTO C2D T9300 (2.5GHz 800MHz 6MBL2) Vista Business 3GB RAM NVIDIA Quadro FX 570M 15.4 WUXGA. Hello,I was running a desktop with Arch and a nVidia 7900GS but recently, my 7900GS died So I was looking for a new cheap graphic card who could decode 1080p and who have an HDMI port.
Somebody told me that the AMD HD 5450 could be a good choice, or the upcoming nVidia GT 430 could be a nice choice too But what about the support of theses new hardware in Archlinux?Which of theses have the best drivers? The best performances under Arch?
Thank you for your support Last edited by Lowra (2010-09-12 09:52:21). While there is progress on ATI drivers, both open and closed source, if you want thing working smoothly *now* as opposed to maybe sometime in the future, go Nvidia. If video playback is your only concern and you want to spend as little as possible, get a G210. If you want a little more oomph in the 3D department then idk, GT240 would probably do. If you have money, then GTX460. Especially in the hardware video decode department, VDPAU gives you an out-of-the box nicely working experience with stock Arch packages. Hi This has been happening for over an year now, and there's not way I've been able to fix it so far.
I purchased a Toshiba Satellite P105-S9337 in 2007, however, about a year ago, the computer was fine and the screen got all pixelled up and froze and it was also kinda flashing between the windows screen and a black screen. After I restarted i had a Blue Screen telling me the error was with nvlddmkm.sys. I redownloaded the newest driver from Nvidia and tried it again, no luck, as well as several older drivers for the GPU, nothing happened. It also shows I have 0MB of video card memory available, I can't play any games of use anything and I'm limited to a 1024x768 resolution out of the 1440x900 I previously had with the driver working correctly.
A lot of other people have had this problem also and are on the lookout for a fix. Any help at all for a desperate guy? The Nvidia drivers will work on our video cards.
* Click Graphics Driver * Click GeForce and TNT2 * Click Windows XP / 2000 * Click Go! The beta Nzone 91.33 drivers will also work on our video cards. Dual 512MB nVidia GeForce 7900 GTX Dual 256MB nVidia GeForce 7900 GS 512MB nVidia GeForce 7900 GTX 256MB GeForce 7900 GS 256MB nVidia Geforce 7300LE * Dell GeForce 7900GS driver The Ati Catalyst driver will work on our video cards. * Click Windows XP Drivers and Software * Click Radeon * Click Catalyst X.X Windows XP - Driver Download 128MB ATI Radeon X600 SE 128MB ATI Radeon X300 SE NOTE - My advice is to use Driver Cleaner Pro to remove the Dell video card driver. When finished, install the downloaded driver. Message Edited by DELL-ChrisM on 08:51 AM.
The Nvidia drivers will work on our video cards. * Click Graphics Driver * Click GeForce and TNT2 * Click Windows XP / 2000 * Click Go! The beta Nzone 91.33 drivers will also work on our video cards.
Dual 512MB nVidia GeForce 7900 GTX Dual 256MB nVidia GeForce 7900 GS 512MB nVidia GeForce 7900 GTX 256MB GeForce 7900 GS 256MB nVidia Geforce 7300LE * Dell GeForce 7900GS driver The Ati Catalyst driver will work on our video cards. * Click Windows XP Drivers and Software * Click Radeon * Click Catalyst X.X Windows XP - Driver Download 128MB ATI Radeon X600 SE 128MB ATI Radeon X300 SE NOTE - My advice is to use Driver Cleaner Pro to remove the Dell video card driver. When finished, install the downloaded driver. Message Edited by DELL-ChrisM on 08:51 AM. Hi, this may be a dumb question but Ive searched and read and havent quite found it. I was wondering how fan control for NVidia cards is supposed to work.
I see lots of complaints about fans not speeding up when the card is under load, and lots of suggestions about Riva Tuner, etc. But shouldnt the NVidia driver take care of this itself? My last card was an ATI, and ATIs driver has a section where you can specify fan speed (or set it to auto), as well as set overclock values.
However, my MSI NVidia 8600GTS card (NX8600GTS-T2D256E-OC) doesnt seem to have any place to set fan speeds in the driver (182.08). Can anyone give a big picture overview to someone new to NVidia as to why fan control seems so complicated/flaky and why so many programs exist to adjust it? Why isnt it just built into the driver? And also, the 8600GTS mentioned above seems to always run its fan at the same speed -- a GPU utility I got says its running at 30%, and it never seems to change. Its a loud 30%, too.
What utility should I run to properly manage the fan? I just want it quiet when its sitting at the desktop or in Word, and then it should keep the card cool when a game is played.
I just downloaded the 91.32 drivers from laptopvideo2go for my geforce 7900gs. With the new driver, the nvidia control panel allows me to select automatic overclocking. I know that overclocking the card voids warranties, but my question is is there anyway that dell could tell that I have overclocked if something ever did go wrong. Basically, once I switched back to stock dell drivers, if I sent my computer in to dell for any type of service, is there anyway that they could detect that the card was overclocked (assuming all files were deleted from the 91.32 driver)?
Thanks to anyone that can answer my question. Hi, I got a problem with Bios v4.70. Since I flashed my BIOS I got regular stops in my games. Looks like the game hangs every 3 seconds for a short moment.
I got bios v4.50 before without problems. I'd like to use v4.70 because since the new version the cooling fan of my graphics card responses to the temperature again. With the recent versions I got the problem the fan was only working when I pushed the temperature of the gfx over 104°C. Seems there is some emergency program that starts the fan and let it run at a constant medium level. When I turn of my pc I have to repeat this procedure again. This is quite annoying, so I was quite happy to see the new BIOS solved my problem.
Perhaps someone knows a solution. I know there were already threads with in-game stuttering but the solutions won’t fit for me. I am using a modified gfx driver because Toshiba won't release new ones.
My system is a Toshiba Satellite P100-354 CPU: 2ghz dual core gfx: geforce go 7900gs 512mb with forceware v185.20 OS: Win Vista 32bit Ultimate. Hi, The driver does not necessarily need to be re-installed. However I would look manually at Nvidia for updated drivers and install them or re-install the same driver if it is the most current.
This is to be sure that no corruption is present. Not so much due to the change in cards, rather there might have been other system issues which might have affected the drivers. Nvidia - Drivers - Use OPTION 1to manually enter your driver info toget most current drivers. Nvidia Support - check with Support as it could be a known issue Nvidia Forums - also check for forums as it could be a known issue and/or others likely to have it Hope this helps. Rob Brown - MS MVP - Windows Desktop Experience: Bicycle - Mark Twain said it right. Here's a problem that's had me stumped for over a week now, Vista doesn't work with my 3007WFP (JJ883B1) if I use the nVidia drivers. I see the green Vista progress bar, but I lose signal at the splash screen.
I've tried a whole heap of things to identify the problem. Here's a problem that's had me stumped for over a week now, Vista doesn't work with my 3007WFP (JJ883B1) if I use the nVidia drivers. I see the green Vista progress bar, but I lose signal at the splash screen. I've tried a whole heap of things to identify the problem. I used the Dell Vista upgrade, so far things work ok, sound a little choppy at times, also seems like the harddrive is always active, and i get a poor performance rating even though its a 7200rpm sata drive. Probably live with it for a little while and see if any updates fixes these issues, if they don't then i would like to know that i could start over with a clean install.
Also does any know which driver for the Nvidia 7900gs go works best? Downloaded the beta drivers from Nvidia but they didnt recognize my card.
Ok starting a new thread. Just installed the new 344.60 driver, to see if the one fan spinning in idle is fixed for my 980 msi gaming. It does NOT fix anything!! So im asking is msi or nvidia aware of this issue?
Can some mod or admin ask msi, if its on their end, or on nvidias end. If i install 344.16, all things are fixed and working as intended! So, why the hell this contiunes, we will evantually be forced to stay on an outdated driver? This is outrageous!! The fan that has problems with these drivers is the USER-CONTROLLED fan, (red area fan) so this is the proof that the driver is messing with that fan.:(. I am thinking about replacing my BFG Tech 7800GT OC with a new card. I am going to stick with a Nvidia graphics card because my motherboard is a Nforce 4 Ultra and for some reason it will not post with an ATI card.
I am looking at the 7900GS and the 7950GT both are from BFG (my brand of choice) and was wondering which card I should get since my computer right now is out dated (ASUS A8N-E, AMD 3800+ x2 s939 with 3Gigs of DDR RAM). I know the 7950GT has 512 MB of RAM as opposed to the 7900GSs 256, but since I am only replacing my 7800GT to make my computer last another few months is it really worth the price to buy a 7950GT or will the 7900GS play games just fine? I just received my new MSI 6800GT AGP card, but I havent installed it yet. Last night I downloaded the latest driver directly from NVIDIA. Should I use this driver, or a driver directly from the MIS site?
I am also wondering about which of the MSI utilities are worthwhile. This is my first MSI card.
In general I like to install the minimum of extras, and I am not going to mess about with overclocking, etc. Are there any must haves in the software suite, or will the straight nView from Nvidia take care of all my basic needs. BTW, I read a lot of posts in the forum about the different fan/heatsink combos on this card. I got mine from TigerDirect and it does have the copper-colored heatsink and the adjustable fan speed.
Thanks in advance for the advice. Chris Freitag New York, NY. EDIT: Temporarily resolved by downgrading to xorg-server 1.6 The setup is as follows: GPU0(NVIDIA 8800GTS) = Monitor0 = Monitor1 GPU2(NVIDIA 8800GTS) = Monitor2 Everything used to work with a Xinerama setup (I know xrandr is what I should be using), but after a recent yaourt -Syu I now get segfaults when moving my pointer to monitor 2 (the leftmost monitor) The pointer also jitters back and forth between monitor 2 and 0 (the middle one). Everything else works fine. Ok, so a month ago my old 7900GS died on me.
2 weeks ago I purchased a used 7900GS and everything was just fine. 3 days later, the screen got all messed up and would struggle to fix itself. When it would fix itself, I would get a pop up saying nvidia driver sucessfully recovered from a crash or whatnot.
If it doesnt, I have to hard reboot my system. Usually after a hard restart like that, ill have green lines going vertically on the screen at the Dell bios screen. I would keep getting a blank screen when it would go to load into windows and would have to hard reset again.
If I boot into safe mode, everything looks just fine and works fine. When I restart from there, everything is fine and will load back into windows.
After searching and reading, I read one person say it was a memory issue. I removed 2x 4gb and put the old 2x 1gb ram back in and the computer was fine for 5 days with no problems untill today. I also read it was a nvidia driver issue with vista so I dug out my old copy of XP and went to install and I get a blue screen of death when it goes to load up. Right now its ok but its really starting to bother me. The person I bought the card from assured me the card was ok and I have a warranty on it but I wanna say its not the card. Ive run every test I can find and my whole system will pass with no issues. If anyone has any ideas, please fill me in! Im going to attempt to get XP back in now though to see if that works.
My system - XPS M1710 Nvidia 7900GS Windows Vista Home 32bit. I noticed this was a question when CS4 came out; I've just upgraded from CS3 to CS6 so am experiencing the problem decribed in an earlier thread here: I have an Nvidia Geforce 7900GS card with an old 2006 driver, 8.4.4.0 I tried updating to driver 306.81 from earlier this month and whilst this solved the brush issue, it caused the PC's cooling fans to operate much more frequently (and noisily) than before so I concluded it was not so suitable for my card. In view of this, should I be trying an older driver, say from 2009 as the earlier post suggests 'because that bug was fixed by Nvidia back in the Spring of 2009' If so, which one? I'm running XP, SP3 PC has dual core Pentium CPU 3.4GHz, 4GB RAM (3.25 useable with XP) CS6 updated with all available updates.
I have just discovered that I no longer have the problem of a disappearing brush circle when enlarging it beyond a certain size (which also affected the Clone Stamp, the Healing Brush and Spot Healing Brush). A quick check in Device Manager shows that, unbeknown to me, a driver update for my NVIDIA card (now showing version 6.14.13.783, driver date 31/1/2013) was automatically installed, presumeably very recently, as I have only just noticed the brush circle now working properly. I still do not have the function of the Blur Gallery's on-image 'dial' adjustment, though, and it remains the case that I can only adjust via the sliders on the right-hand side of the screen. Also, I still get traces of the marquee and the corner handles/side handles in their former positions on-screen, when moving a marquee I have placed on an image, via the Move Tool.
I assume these are seperate issues, and not caused by any NVIDIA driver incompatablility(?). I was looking to update the driver for my 7900GS and went to the nVidia website and the latest drivers there (91.31) are newer than the one installed in my system. I read the release notes and it specifically states that is supports the GeForce 7900 GS (PCI-E). However, when I go to update the driver, the software tells me there is no hardware in my system compatible with the drivers. So, I tried to do a manual install and selected the driver file and got the list of supported video cards and the 7900 GS wasn't listed (although, as stated above, the release notes state that it does support it). It does list many variations of the 7900 (i.e., 7900 GT, 7900 GTX, 7900/7950 GX2, 7950GX2), but not the GS.
Any ideas if one of these other selections will work or should I just stick with the current drivers (note: I'm not really experiencing any problems that I know of). Ive just upgraded from the on-board HD4000 to an MSI nVidia GTX 650 in a new build of mine and everything went fine apart from the fact the fan, once the nVidia driver loads, appears to stick at 100% and as you can imagine thats very loud (its purely wind noise, its not hitting anything). Has anyone encountered this before? The graphics card in nVidia Tools states the core is around 19c so its clearly not hot. Its like the moment the nVidia driver is loaded, it just maxes the fan and stays there for no reason. Driver is the latest, 313.30-5. That value is false, the fan is clearly running at 100%.
The fan speed doesnt change at all once the nVidia driver has loaded. If the temperature of the GPU rises then that value rises too, but the actual fan speed doesnt change as its already maxed out. On boot the GPU fan seems to run at about 80% and then slowly drop to 50% or so on its own (for example if I sit in the BIOS or at the GRUB prompt). Then, once Linux boots and the nVidia driver loads, the fan suddenly ramps up louder than it is even when the machine is first turned on, and stays there. Trying to set it manually with nvidia-settings on the command line fails with this: ERROR: Error assigning value 20 to attribute GPUCurrentFanSpeed (jasper:0[fan:0]) as specified in assignment [fan:0]/GPUCurrentFanSpeed=20 (Unknown Error).
Im trying to install Arch on an Lenovo IdeaPad Y510. The laptop have 2 NVIDIA GT755M. The second graphics card is removable. If I remove that card I can see with lspci that there also is a intel graphics chip. If the second card is mounted lspci only shows me one GT 755m.
The problem is that I cannot start X. I have installed gdm and gnome and when booted normally the screen goes blank and the cpu-fan speeds up and after a while the computer reboots.
This is the log for that boot. May 09 22:21:01 arch kernel: [Firmware Bug]: Duplicate ACPI video bus devices for the same VGA controller, please try module parameter video.allow_duplicates=1if the current driver doesnt work. May 09 22:21:01 arch kernel: [Firmware Bug]: Duplicate ACPI video bus devices for the same VGA controller, please try module parameter video.allow_duplicates=1if the current driver doesnt work. Yep - its even happening on a brand new Dimension 9200 thats weeks old. Before I consider sending this back to DELL with a large complaint I thought I'd post here to see if anyone could provide advice. I've already read and researched this error all over the web and tried all the solutions including Driver Cleaner, restore the OS from DELLs Ghost reformat procedure, upgraded and downgraded drivers. Defragged drive and disabled AV when playing games but still no joy.
Only thing I haven't done isopen the box to check the nVidia card for burnt out / dodgy soldering and /or checked for a BIOS upgrade. As I say, before I begin the long, arduous,Indiansupport process here is my problem: Blue Screen STOP: 0x0000007e (0xC0000005, 0xBF0D64F5, 0xB9B4EC48, 0xB984E944) nv4_disp.dll - Address BF0D64F5 base at BF012000,DateStamp442e03c1 Occuring on games - Far Cry F.E.A.R (both up to date) Before the blue screen the graphics in the game stutter, slow then die. Machine (Windows XP Home SP2) then hangs (no feedback from CAPS LOCK) and a I have to keep the power button in for 5 secs to do a reboot.
Event viewer is clean of any errors. This is a brand new machine, I am totally gutted this is happening and don't feel I should be doing a bit of fault diagnosisto find the problem it should just work! Thanks in advance for any helpful posts, Nels Dimension 9200 Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 @ 2.66Ghz 2GB 533Mhz RAM 250GB Hdd nVidia GeForce 7900GS with 94.xx drivers Windows XP Home with SP2 Message Edited by nelsonnr on 04:51 AM Message Edited by nelsonnr on 04:52 AM.
Hi, mine took 7 days from Limerick, Ireland to Edinburgh, Scotland. Absolutely love this system.
Hadn't played or seen FEAR before until I played it on this - incredible experience. The machine is so capable. Just waiting for Microsoft FSX to be released now in the UK on the 13th Oct. That'll round it all up for me.
An update on the nv4_disp.dll errors, make sure you apply the chipset patch. Unfortuntely my problems got worse and I had to get a new nVidia 7900GS card. DELL shipped next day for me, i was well impressed. It fixed the problem too. System now runs weet. I've just been given a new Dimension 9150 at work with an nvidia 7900 GS graphics card.
It has two DVI outputs, but in the display properties I only have 2 choices - 'Clone' or 'Single Display' - I can't seem to get proper dual output (i.e. So I can have a Windows desktop with two monitors, with different windows displayed on each monitor). Is this a hardware limitation of the 7900GS, or do I need to change some configuration? Also, when I tried the latest nvidia drivers, v91.31 (and the beta ones, 91.33), although both claim that they support the 7900GS, when I run the setup, it tells me that I have no hardware that is compatible with the nvidia drivers. What's going on there?
Is this a 'special' Dell graphics card 'feature'?