| Summary: | nvidia-settings incompatibility with 173xx drivers | ||
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| Product: | Fedora | Reporter: | michlinux |
| Component: | nvidia-settings | Assignee: | Nicolas Chauvet <kwizart> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | leigh123linux |
| Priority: | P5 | ||
| Version: | 17 | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | GNU/Linux | ||
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| Attachments: | screenshot | ||
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Description
michlinux
2012-09-29 08:14:19 CEST
(In reply to comment #0) > Created attachment 971 [details] > screenshot > > nvidia-settings > > Version: 1.0-20 > > Seams partly incompatible with 173xx version of the nvidia drivers. I included > a screen shot of version 1.0-20 how it displays on an geforce FX card. I tried > a few different versions 1.0-18 and below works fine with 173xx drivers. I > believe this because of the switch from 295.xx to 30x.xx drivers, shown below. > All 30x.xx I compiled and tested fails in same way as 1.0-20. I guess it's time > for a nvidia-settings-173xx package. This is one possible solution, the downside is it would need a package review ( is 173xx worth this effort as it's support is likely to lag behind the X server, will Nvidia ever add 1.13 support?) package . Another solution which I favour is to include it (and nvidia-xconfig) in the xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173xx package (we currently detele them in the build process). > > > From Changelog of nvidia-settings > > * Sun Jun 17 2012 leigh scott <leigh123linux@googlemail.com> - 1.0-20(broke for > 173xx) > - Update to 302.17 > > * Tue May 22 2012 leigh scott <leigh123linux@googlemail.com> - 1.0-19(untested) > - Update to 302.11 > > * Tue May 22 2012 leigh scott <leigh123linux@googlemail.com> - 1.0-18(works) > - Update to 295.53 We already experienced such kind of issue, this could be solved by fixing the source code to behave appropriately for each release. I don't know if it's doable in this case at the first sight. Well, the main diff is the support for xrandr among other purposes. So maybe it would worth to make a nvidia-(tools)legacy. (thoses would work for 173xx/96xx). I've changed my mind and I will reintroduce the tools into the driver instead. Changes going on for all drivers. This is been fixed in the F-17 case and later. The driver now bundle again the tools so the version matches. |