One I completely forgot to post about here, NVIDIA recently released the 415.13 beta driver for Linux.
Released on the 8th of November, it includes a number of interesting fixes, including an issue fixed with WINE where it might crash on recent distribution releases. Nice to see WINE get some focus, since things like this can affect Valve's Steam Play.
They also fixed an OpenGL issue where conditional rendering was incorrectly affecting mipmap generation. Another OpenGL bug was fixed which caused the upper bounds of floating-point viewports, specified through the ARB_viewport_array extension, to be clipped incorrectly.
There's also a new X configuration option "HardDPMS" which they disabled by default. This will enable you to put your display to sleep with modesets rather than VESA DPMS (VESA Display Power Management Signaling), possibly fixing some displays that won't sleep when DPMS is active. NVIDIA say they will eventually enable it by default.
On top of that plus more fixes, they added the current synchronization state for PRIME Displays to nvidia-settings. This latest beta driver also ups the minimum Linux Kernel version to 2.6.9 to 2.6.32, along with a required X.Org xserver version bump to 1.5.
See the full changelog here.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Last edited by mrdeathjr on 13 November 2018 at 3:25 pm UTC
Quoting: kfWayland when?
Yes but most games runs above X and wayland is not supported
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Quoting: mrdeathjrQuoting: kfWayland when?
Yes but most games runs above X and wayland is not supported
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And they will continue to do so if Wayland never gets supported.
Quoting: kfQuoting: mrdeathjrQuoting: kfWayland when?
Yes but most games runs above X and wayland is not supported
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And they will continue to do so if Wayland never gets supported.
Yes
The day when wayland be wide game supported
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Last edited by mrdeathjr on 13 November 2018 at 4:16 pm UTC
Quoting: mrdeathjrThe day when wayland be wide game supportedOnly the widest games, my friend.
Quoting: EhvisQuoting: PatolaHave they finally added stream output to this driver?
According to a post with the phoronix article, it contains the Vulkan Beta stuff up to 396.54.06, which means that transform feedback is still lacking.
The last three beta drivers were more or less current for a month until the first non-beta release arrived. E.g:
396.18 Beta - April 10th 2018
396.24 - May 2nd 2018
410.57 Beta - September 19th 2018
410.66 - October 16th 2018
Lets see what happens, would be cool if the NVidia engineers are able to include the transform feedback extensions for the first 415 non-beta release.
Last edited by jens on 13 November 2018 at 7:42 pm UTC
Quoting: liamdaweJust spoke to the people behind the Ubuntu NVIDIA PPA. It should hopefully be up soon.It's now up on the NVIDIA PPA: https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
Quoting: cprnDoes any of the "NVIDIA slows down old cards" shenanigans concern Linux users / drivers?
Yeah, it just as bad as it is on Windows. By that, I mean not at all as they don't slow down old cards, that's just part of the anti-NV circlejerk.
Unrelated: @liam you may want to warn people away from this driver - it breaks all Unity games in Proton and seems to have some issues with Wine in general.
Quoting: liamdaweQuoting: cprnDoes any of the "NVIDIA slows down old cards" shenanigans concern Linux users / drivers?No benchmarking has ever shown that to be true. There have been regressions, which get fixed when found. That is an old bit of FUD right there though.
I know it's FUD info, that's why I put it in quotes and call "shenanigans", but whenever some bug happens to be consistent with that myth videos like this one come up - I meant this very instance of the issue as it's fairly fresh (and yeah, this one was true but not NVIDIA's fault, there was a bug in Windows meltdown/spectre update but it's probably fixed by now):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFSLro_OXLQ
I asked because I was curious if it was ever even present on Linux, but yeah, it wasn't.
Last edited by cprn on 14 November 2018 at 4:12 pm UTC
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