NVIDIA SLi Finally Available For Linux!!!

Tsuroerusu · Post by **Tsuroerusu** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 4:54 pm

I was just checking NVIDIA's Unix driver page and found that they've just released version 1.0-8174 of their drivers for both 32-bit and 64-bit Linux.

Kudos to NVIDIA, better late than never

I really look forward to see some benchmarks on this, because as we all know, the X Window System is a little bit different than Windows' graphical interface.

Wally Balljacker · Post by **Wally Balljacker** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 8:03 pm

Thanks for the update, just installed the new driver.

Gomer_X · Post by **Gomer_X** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 10:20 am

I don't care too much about SLI as I don't have that much money to waste, but "Fixed driver installation when SELinux is enabled" in the changelog looks interesting. I'll have to try it when I get home and see if I notice any improvements.

Tsuroerusu · Post by **Tsuroerusu** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 11:37 am

Gomer_X wrote:I don't care too much about SLI as I don't have that much money to waste

You don't have to use high end cards, you could just use like 6600 GTs, or what I might do, buy one card and then add the second when I need better performance.

Post by **Patrick** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 11:55 am

I saw your post on digg:
http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/NVIDIA_S ... _For_Linux_

Gomer_X · Post by **Gomer_X** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 11:37 am

Tsuroerusu wrote:
Gomer_X wrote:I don't care too much about SLI as I don't have that much money to waste
You don't have to use high end cards, you could just use like 6600 GTs, or what I might do, buy one card and then add the second when I need better performance.

My GeForce FX 5600 Ultra is still more power than I need.

I did indeed install the updated driver last night. Not much difference, but then I don't do much 3D stuff. I do notice X comes up noticeably quicker, though.

Tsuroerusu · Post by **Tsuroerusu** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 12:20 pm

I'm getting to the point where I'm close to trashing my old CRT monitor, and buying a brand new high-end LCD monitor from Dell with something like a 1920x1080 resolution which you might need a pretty beefy graphics card to run at