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new nvidia drivers and xorg 7.0

[Michael P. <mic...@op...>]

I wanted to let you all know that nvidia is releasing a new driver version
within the next few days that supposedly fixes the nvidia crashing problem.
We shipped them a 3-user system with automatic login/logouts back in
December that they have been testing with, so hopefully the new driver is
fully fixed.

Also, has anyone tried the simple xorg.conf evdev DevPhys multi-user method
with xorg 7.0 yet?  We will be moving from Ubuntu 5.10 to 6.06 which uses
xorg 7.0.

We should be posting our new multi-user scripts, install procedures, and
.isos for Ubuntu 6.06 within the next month.

Thanks,
Michael Pardee
Open Sense Solutions LLC
http://open-sense.com
888-323-1742
920-494-3983

Re: new nvidia drivers and xorg 7.0

[Aivils S. <ai...@un...>]

On Ceturtdiena, 6. Apr=EElis 2006 22:55, you wrote:
> I wanted to let you all know that nvidia is releasing a new driver version
> within the next few days that supposedly fixes the nvidia crashing proble=
m.
> We shipped them a 3-user system with automatic login/logouts back in
> December that they have been testing with, so hopefully the new driver is
> fully fixed.

Than You for Your care about this project. I don't know how to industrial
development happens. But You send 1 box only. I suppose beta testing means
hundreds of varios hardware.
	I hope nvidia-pro beta testing will be better than our community, where
one runs sytem careless but another have troubles only. May be nvidia will
not tie up drivers to hardware sended by You.

> Also, has anyone tried the simple xorg.conf evdev DevPhys multi-user meth=
od
> with xorg 7.0 yet?  We will be moving from Ubuntu 5.10 to 6.06 which uses
> xorg 7.0.

I am not.

Aivils
> We should be posting our new multi-user scripts, install procedures, and
> .isos for Ubuntu 6.06 within the next month.
>
> Thanks,
> Michael Pardee
> Open Sense Solutions LLC
> http://open-sense.com
> 888-323-1742
> 920-494-3983

Re:new nvidia drivers and xorg 7.0

[Michael P. <mic...@op...>]

The new nvidia driver has already been integrated into Ubuntu 6.06 beta and
does indeed seem to fix the dreaded nvidia crashing problem.  We tested on
both agp and pci-e setups, and it runs for a long time with 4 users logging
in/out every 12 seconds.  Multi-user operation is obviously not a high
priority for nvidia, but at least they spent the time to fix this key bug.
Hopefully their driver is written so that the fix should be pretty much
hardware independent.

On another note, we have succesfully brought up 3 users with xorg 7.0 with
Ubuntu 6.06 beta.  The evdev keyboard syntax has changed, now you need to
use the evdev driver instead of kbd and "dev phys" doesn't seem to work, bu=
t
now specifying "Device" works (it did not always work before)
Here is an example of the switched syntax:
        Identifier      "keyboard0"
        Driver          "evdev"
        Option "Device" "/dev/input/event0"
        #Driver         "kbd"
        #Option "Protocol" "evdev"
        #Option "Dev Phys" "isa0060/serio0/input0"

It would be nice to get "dev phys" working again, but specifying by event#
is just as useful for our plug-in-anywhere scripts.

Michael Pardee
Open Sense Solutions LLC
http://open-sense.com
888-323-1742
920-494-3983

Re: new nvidia drivers and xorg 7.0

[Aivils S. <ai...@un...>]

On Tre=F0diena, 12. Apr=EElis 2006 22:17, Michael Pardee wrote:
> The new nvidia driver has already been integrated into Ubuntu 6.06 beta a=
nd
> does indeed seem to fix the dreaded nvidia crashing problem.  We tested on
> both agp and pci-e setups, and it runs for a long time with 4 users loggi=
ng
> in/out every 12 seconds.  Multi-user operation is obviously not a high
> priority for nvidia, but at least they spent the time to fix this key bug.
> Hopefully their driver is written so that the fix should be pretty much
> hardware independent.
>
> On another note, we have succesfully brought up 3 users with xorg 7.0 with
> Ubuntu 6.06 beta.  The evdev keyboard syntax has changed, now you need to
> use the evdev driver instead of kbd and "dev phys" doesn't seem to work,
> but now specifying "Device" works (it did not always work before)
> Here is an example of the switched syntax:
>         Identifier      "keyboard0"
>         Driver          "evdev"
>         Option "Device" "/dev/input/event0"
>         #Driver         "kbd"
>         #Option "Protocol" "evdev"
>         #Option "Dev Phys" "isa0060/serio0/input0"
>
> It would be nice to get "dev phys" working again, but specifying by event#
> is just as useful for our plug-in-anywhere scripts.

Driver is not "hardcoded" into server any more.
Get recent evdev driver and enjoy XKB and "Phys" option ;o)
http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/driver/

Aivils
> Michael Pardee
> Open Sense Solutions LLC
> http://open-sense.com
> 888-323-1742
> 920-494-3983

Re: new nvidia drivers and xorg 7.0

[Aivils S. <ai...@un...>]

On Tre=F0diena, 12. Apr=EElis 2006 22:17, Michael Pardee wrote:
> The new nvidia driver has already been integrated into Ubuntu 6.06 beta a=
nd
> does indeed seem to fix the dreaded nvidia crashing problem.  We tested on
> both agp and pci-e setups, and it runs for a long time with 4 users loggi=
ng
> in/out every 12 seconds.  Multi-user operation is obviously not a high
> priority for nvidia, but at least they spent the time to fix this key bug.
> Hopefully their driver is written so that the fix should be pretty much
> hardware independent.

That 8756 version of Nvidia drivers looks stable from view point of multiple
local X. Good job!

Aivils