The latest Nvidia driver (9631) is now available in my Testing repositories.
Here is the changelog of the driver:
* Fixed an OpenGL crash on some GeForce 3 and GeForce 4 GPUs.
* Fixed an X server crash starting some fullscreen OpenGL games.
* Improved interaction with newer Linux kernels.
Make sure that the repositories contains “www” i.e. it looks like http://www.albertomilone.com etc. instead of http://albertomilone.com…
Please notice that I haven’t had the time to update the webpage of my repositories yet.
An up-to-date release of Envy will be available soon.
Great stuff, one thing though, the refresh rate still incorrectly reads 50Hz instead of 85hz under System->Preferences->Screen Resolution, which affects Beryl too.
When using Beryl, you need to turn off automatic refresh rate detection and manually enter in your refresh rate, e.g. 85Hz, or Beryl will be quite jerky as it incorrectly detects the 50Hz refresh rate.
I’m not sure if this is an NVidia driver bug, but this happens on various GeForce models on Edgy with the 9xxx drivers.
erm, not wanting to be too picky, these are the non-free binary drivers that you are referring to…..
therefore, wouldn’t it be more accurate to state that:
these are drivers which you and no-one else other than nVidia have no world have any real idea how about they work.
for example: that these drivers arbitrarily stop supporting certain graphics cards and that no user has any control over this.
Also the licence of this binary driver, apart from the usual type of statemet for proprietary software stating that you may not change the binaries in any way, ie
“2.1.1, SOFTWARE designed exclusively for use on the Linux or FreeBSD operating systems, or other operating systems derived from the source code to these operating systems, may be copied and redistributed, provided that the binary files thereof are not modified in any way (except for unzipping of compressed files).”
also includes the even more utterly unacceptable and abusive clause stating:
“2.1.3 Limitations.
No Reverse Engineering. Customer may not reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the SOFTWARE, nor attempt in any other manner to obtain the source code.”
The clause stating that no-one must even attempt to reverse engineer (ie. replicate behaviour with out copying or seeing any source code) goes further than any law on copyright and actively attacks the remaining freedoms and legal rights of ordinary software users.
It is invidious that any Free Software advocate should be promoting the acceptance of this licence, or advocating that others should use the software.
reference:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/nv_swlicense.html
can I also refer people to the fact that these binaries that have been compiled against the Linux kernel are derivative works of the linux kernel:
http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2006/08/why_binaryonly_linux_kernel_mo.html
please do not distribute works that abuse the copyright of the kernel developers and break the GPL.
Andrew Wigglesworth
Please,read this blog post carefully:
http://albertomilone.com/wordpress/?p=47
I did add www to the url for the rep in sources.lst and then apt-get could not find the repository. Removed it again, and now I have the new driver.