@ntromans

We are planning to do a short promo video on the NVidia driver work in coming days. I don't know if there is a writeup on 64-bit AROS history - note that this would be have to span probabaly 15 years of AROS development - first 64-bit bit work was already happening a long time ago.

Ok, thanks. I'm going to buy one of those cheap gfx card soon for my AROS machine I've built recently - the internal Intel HD2500 is fine but not exceptional even for AROS. By the way I have a Gtx 1650 Super on my main PC, too, although I wasn't never able to launch AROS natively there, maybe it doesn't like the chipset of my motherboard (an ASUS M5A99X EVO R2.0)...

If anyone's interested, I'm giving away a Nvidia 580 Phantom 3.5 Gb

Supported cards: from GF8/GF9 series (Tesla) up to GTX 9xx series (Maxwell)

There are two ways you can get the driver:

a) if you want to install it on your existing installation (must be 20250418-U3/AROS One 1.3) you can use these files: https://axrt.org/development/NVidia-49.7.zip

b) you can get a full base system ISO with the new driver here: https://axrt.org/development/aros-202609-D01-pc-x86_64-iso.zip ISO doesn't contain NVidia firmware files (needed for GTX 9xx). You need to get them from NVidia-49.7.zip

Thank you. I meant above if you want to make a driver for the next Geforce gen (well, it's actually 2 gen ahead from Maxwell) I can put my GTX 1650 into my AROS machine for testing - by the way it's an i5-3570s plus ASUS P8Z68-M Pro plus 16 GB of RAM and all work well.
Out of curiosity: are there plans for Intel HD support? How do you implemented these gfx drivers? I don't believe you do some retro engineering, maybe usually you look at their open-source counterparts in Linux, isn't it? What could it be a starting point (particular source code, documentation, etc.)?

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind. On the motherboard - glad it works - it's a sister-board to one of the recommended ones, so it will be helpful with testing the upcoming release.

On the driver itself: it's not written from scratch, that would be way too compilated. It's a port of nouveau open source driver. Along with the driver itself I ported pieces of supporting architecture so now porting the IntelHD open source driver should be easier. There is a person who showed some initial interested in porting the IntelHD driver but we have to wait and see if that comes to fruition.

Thanks got to @retrofaza for compiling this promo video

Hi. 1st post here, as i just registered to get some help with driver installation...

So i've copied following files from NVidia-49.7 arc :

Devs/Drivers/nouveau.hidd to sys:Devs/Drivers/
Devs/Monitors/Nvidia + icon to sys:Devs/Monitors/

now... i have gtx960 4gb VRAM in my pc so gm206, but my question is - what shall i copy next and where it should be placed ?

My current iso "Devs/Firmware/" contains :
HermesI and HermesII files

How do I make it use of my gtx960 ?

Thanks

Hello and welcome,

In the NVidia-49.7.zip in the Devs directory you have Firmware directory with NVidia subdirectory. Copy

Devs/Firmware/NVidia to SYSevs/Firmware/

Additionally you need to copy the contents of Libs subdirectory in the zip file to SYS:Libs overwritting existing libraries.

What is your bases system? Is it AROS One 1.3?

@deadwood
I tested it on my old ACER Aspire 5920 with an Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT 512MB graphics card. Now, with the new NVIDIA AROS One 64-bit v11 drivers, it boots in native mode (I only added noacpi), but as soon as I run an application or change the screen mode, everything freezes.

Ok, so at least some progress. Try running sashimi first and then see it it prints out anything before freezing when starting another application.

Did you try your second laptop? The one with 830M?

HP ENVY 15 GeForce GTX 850M with your build (I only added noacpi)—I have “cat's eyes”; it only boots in 3 VESA mode.

With the ACER Aspire 5920, I tried running Sashimi with some difficulty (even the shell freezes the system after a few commands), but unfortunately, Sashimi doesn't have time to print anything.

Hmm, did you install firmware files when testing 850M? They are not on the ISO and need to be installed separatelly.

I copied the entire contents of the NVidia-49.7 folder to the same locations on AROS One.
Did I do something wrong? Do I absolutely have to use a 3.x USB flash drive?

No, if you copied the folder then that's all that was needed.

Observation on 2D acceleration; with 32 bit on my i7 3.5 Hz + gf 8400 I needed to set quite a high cache to get smooth DVD vob file playback, but on 64 bit, i7 again + GTX970 no chache at all is needed for fully smooth playback, anf that's with the GLexcess demo and AB3D running at the same time . Now I just need to work out how to install Doom3 demo packs...

Cheers,
Nigel.

P.S. the reason I remove the cache setting (this is running from CLI) is I was getting a cache thread error on quitting or changing files, but I'll look into if that's reprodceable after this weekend's show.

Currently running teh demos at the Derby show (quite a bit of interest in ARO btw) but just had a crash in Doom3:

Mesa: User error: 0x501 in glScissor.

As mentioned this is on the ore-DO1 distribution.

Cheers,
Nigel.

Glad to hear interest in AROS.

This DOOM3 crash sounds like something that is already solved in D01.

I'm getting the same issues on my config, also the mouse is sludging on menu screens.

Interesting thing: I have the game installed in my Lubuntu 24 partition as well - dhewm3 version, I tried the original from Steam which I bought in the past decade but it doesn't run because I'm using the latest Nouveau driver and can't install the original Nvidia (my GTX 560 Ti is too old for the modern kernels, too). I found the AROS version is better, faster (50-100%) and without rendering glitches as instead I'm seeing on Linux. Initially I thought it was caused by the bad gfx card (fortunately I paid it very few pounds), but it seems Nouveau drivers aren't very good actually...
I'll post some screenshots later.

The output of "user error" will keep printing in the CON: unless you register streams to NIL. What was solved in D01 is that this output was causing a crash.

With regards to ingame glitches you need to disable shadows. Other settigs can be kept at high quality.