The nvidia-* packages in sid/amd64 have a couple of small issues that I have discovered and would like to point out to everyone else for future reference.
Firstly, it is imperitave that you upgrade to a 2.6.11+ kernel (whether a debian image or roll your own). Previous kernels have a bad implementation of change_page_attr. The complete text from nvidia is available here: ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/1.0-7167/README.txt Secondly, many users have reported bad performance under OpenGL applications (games). Not all games, but a good majority of them. I'm not certain what the cause is, directly, but nvidia has provided a patch. Actually, two patches. They are available here: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=10788 and here: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=10794 Since debian-amd64 has its own custom implementation of nvidia-kernel-source (and, as far as I know, you cannot simply install the NVIDIA-*pkg.run file) you'll have to apply the first patch to /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nv/os-agp.c and the second patch to /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nv/nv.c, after you have untarred the nvidia-kernel-source.tar.gz file that you have downloaded from apt-get. It would be best if we could have the maintainer patch these himself and move them back upstream. I have not yet contacted him myself because I'm uncertain as to whether these patches are universal (meaning perhaps they won't work for everyone or make matters worse for other folks). Regards, Zaq Rizer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
