260GTX nvidia-drivers-190.42-r3 - powermizer issue

[gio___]

Originally Posted by iSpy

Not fixed in 195.30

confirmed!

[jpetridesku]

Same here - I use an Asus GT240, PCI-Express, 512 MB GDDR5 card.

Powermizer uses only the middle (405/324) speed - which has tremendous impact on speed, compared to the 1.7GHz mode (used perfectly under Windows - so this is a Linux driver bug).

Due to this bug, glxgears runs at a ridiculous (for this class of card) speed of 4500 fps.

Please fix this, NVIDIA.

[gio___]

The GTX260M is dated: March 3, 2009

In just over a month will be a year... and we are still here to ask drivers to work .... so sad...

[gio___]

Even the "twinview" is not working here...

just one video output is allowed...

EDIT: OK, maybe I have not explained well ...
Twinview does not work with the "DVI to VGA adapter" and "laptop monitor"... is my mistake?

[queen6]

Originally Posted by gio___

The GTX260M is dated: March 3, 2009

In just over a month will be a year... and we are still here to ask drivers to work .... so sad...

A year only?? I have this problem since powermizer was introduced. It _never_ worked well on _any_ laptop card I had. On the other hand - it DOES work correctly on my desktop card.

Personally I abandoned all hope nvidia will ever fix it. All I'm waiting for now is Nouveau getting better.

[kioftes]

Hi all....I can confirm this on a gt240 with driver version 195.30.....

[mrn]

anyone found any workarounds for this using nvclock or something like that?

[gio___]

Originally Posted by mrn

anyone found any workarounds for this using nvclock or something like that?

not yet ...
NVCLOCK fails to impose the video card to operate at higher frequencies...

[gio___]

Here we are... new driver(195.36.03) and new nvidia-settings(195.36.03)... same problems...

1)No switch to 3d frequencies...
Compiz disabled:
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
40585 frames in 5.0 seconds = 8116.907 FPS
40638 frames in 5.0 seconds = 8127.574 FPS
40688 frames in 5.0 seconds = 8136.052 FPS

Compiz enabled
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
19422 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3884.289 FPS
19374 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3874.704 FPS
19271 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3854.083 FPS


2) Video card does not switch to battery mode when AC is unplugged... X crash with "NVRM: Xid (0002:00): 6, PE0001".
As result, the laptop cannot be used without power supply... .


PS to moderators: How can I change thread's title? I have to change it from "260GTX nvidia-drivers-190.42-r3 - powermizer issue" to "GTX260M nvidia-drivers powermizer issue" because this discussion is not just related to driver 190.42.

[Stephen Warren]

Note: Thread title changed from "260GTX nvidia-drivers-190.42-r3 - powermizer issue" to "GTX260M nvidia-drivers powermizer" per gio___'s request, since the issue isn't specific to a particular driver version.

[gio___]

I've upgraded my laptop BIOS and no more errors like that below are reported in dmesg

[ 6.701326] NVRM: This PCI I/O region assigned to your NVIDIA device is invalid:
[ 6.701328] NVRM: BAR1 is 3328M @ 0x0 (PCI:0000:02.0)
[ 6.701330] NVRM: The system BIOS may have misconfigured your GPU.
[ 6.701390] NVRM: The NVIDIA probe routine failed for 1 device(s).
[ 6.701393] NVRM: None of the NVIDIA graphics adapters were initialized!


However the 2 problems are still present... so... I think is definetly a Nvidia-driver problem.

[zeroprobe]

I have the same issue on a GT240 GDDR5

I don't even have a laptop.

any ETA on a possible fix or I might just buy a new card Are all GT240s affected?

Thread title should be changed as it's not only the 260GTX which is affected.