Re: [Cooker] Proprietary NVIDIA dropped support for non-SSE processors

[Colin Guthrie]

Anssi Hannula wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> As of release 169.07, the NVIDIA drivers no longer work properly on
> non-SSE processors (it was not mentioned in the changelog of course):
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=104914
> https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=36123
> 
> I suppose we have to use nvidia-96xx on non-SSE systems. The nvidia-96xx
> driver supports up to GF7 and some GF8 models.
> 
> Now, this has to be implemented somehow in XFdrake.

Do you know if this could have any effect on x86_64 machines?

There is an issue with Compiz 0.7[.2] on nvidia x86_64. It seems that
0.6.2 works fine but 0.7 fails due to a mimap something or other.

THe code that fails in 0.7 has not changed significantly since 0.6.2 and
it's really hard to work out.

While all the x86_64 processors should support SSE AFAIK, and the fact
that simply trying the downgraded versions seems to fix the problem, I'm
wondering if the driver is having some small effect... It could be also
the compiler I guess? I'm quite stumped by this, so any thoughts however
vauge would be grateful.

Col


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