[nvidia] graphics errors in games since upgrade of 03/12/08

Question

Hi,
since I did a "pacman -Syu" on 03/12/08, I have problems with the graphics of sdl/open gl games, e.g. urban terror and unreal tournament. There are graphical errors (textures are missing or have the wrong color) and the games are very unstable, hang very often, have low frame rates.
The last "pacman -Syu" was on 03/02/08, so the "bad" new package must have been released in this time. Only nvidia cards are affected, because my laptop with intel chip has no problems, though I also did a "pacman -Syu" on it. I could not solve the problem by changing the available settings in nvidia-settings. Even disabling the composite and renderaccel options in xorg.conf did not help. But I could solve the visual problems by upgrading xorg-server to 1.4.0.90-7 (testing). The current one is 1.4.0.90-6. However, the games are still very unstable, which is a even bigger problem that the visual issues. I also tried out the new beta nvidia driver (171.06), but it didn't help at all.
Best regards,
Thorsten
P.S.: hardware is GF6600GT

Answer 1

here ya go:
first the kernel module:
# $Id: PKGBUILD,v 1.87 2008/02/27 08:20:11 thomas Exp $
# Maintainer : Thomas Baechler <[email protected]>
pkgname=nvidia
pkgver=100.14.19
_kernver='2.6.24-ARCH'
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="NVIDIA drivers for kernel26."
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
[ "$CARCH" = "i686" ] && ARCH=x86
[ "$CARCH" = "x86_64" ] && ARCH=x86_64
url="http://www.nvidia.com/"
depends=('kernel26>=2.6.24-2' 'kernel26<=2.6.25-0' 'nvidia-utils')
conflicts=('nvidia-96xx' 'nvidia-71xx' 'nvidia-legacy')
license=('custom')
install=nvidia.install
source=(http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-$ARCH/${pkgver}/NVIDIA-Linux-$ARCH-${pkgver}-pkg0.run)
build()
# Extract
cd $startdir/src/
sh NVIDIA-Linux-$ARCH-${pkgver}-pkg0.run --extract-only
cd NVIDIA-Linux-$ARCH-${pkgver}-pkg0
# Any extra patches are applied in here...
cd usr/src/nv/
ln -s Makefile.kbuild Makefile
make SYSSRC=/lib/modules/${_kernver}/build module
# install kernel module
mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/lib/modules/${_kernver}/kernel/drivers/video/
install -m644 nvidia.ko $startdir/pkg/lib/modules/${_kernver}/kernel/drivers/video/
sed -i -e "s/KERNEL_VERSION='.*'/KERNEL_VERSION='${_kernver}'/" $startdir/*.install
and nvidia-utils:
# $Id: PKGBUILD,v 1.31 2008/02/27 08:17:30 thomas Exp $
# Maintainer: Thomas Baechler <[email protected]>
# Contributor: James Rayner <[email protected]>
pkgname=nvidia-utils
pkgver=100.14.19
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="NVIDIA drivers utilities and libraries."
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
[ "$CARCH" = "i686" ] && ARCH=x86
[ "$CARCH" = "x86_64" ] && ARCH=x86_64
url="http://www.nvidia.com/"
depends=('xorg-server')
conflicts=('libgl' 'libgl-dri' 'ati-fglrx-utils' 'nvidia-legacy-utils' \
'nvidia-71xx-utils' 'nvidia-96xx-utils')
provides=('libgl')
license=('custom')
install=nvidia.install
source=(http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-${ARCH}/${pkgver}/NVIDIA-Linux-${ARCH}-${pkgver}-pkg0.run \
supported-cards.txt)
options=(docs !strip)
build()
# override nvida install routine and do it the long way.
cd $startdir/src/
sh NVIDIA-Linux-${ARCH}-${pkgver}-pkg0.run --extract-only
cd NVIDIA-Linux-${ARCH}-${pkgver}-pkg0/usr/
mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/usr/{lib,bin,share/applications,share/pixmaps,man/man1}
mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/usr/lib/xorg/modules/{extensions,drivers}
mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/usr/share/licenses/nvidia/
install lib/{libGLcore,libGL,libnvidia-cfg,tls/libnvidia-tls}.so.${pkgver} \
$startdir/pkg/usr/lib/ || return 1
install -m644 share/man/man1/* $startdir/pkg/usr/man/man1/ || return 1
rm $startdir/pkg/usr/man/man1/nvidia-installer.1.gz || return 1
install X11R6/lib/libXv* $startdir/pkg/usr/lib/ || return 1
install -m644 share/applications/nvidia-settings.desktop $startdir/pkg/usr/share/applications/ || return 1
# fix nvidia .desktop file
sed -e 's:__UTILS_PATH__:/usr/bin:' -e 's:__PIXMAP_PATH__:/usr/share/pixmaps:' -i $startdir/pkg/usr/share/applications/nvidia-settings.desktop
install -m644 share/pixmaps/nvidia-settings.png $startdir/pkg/usr/share/pixmaps/ || return 1
install X11R6/lib/modules/libnvidia-wfb.so.$pkgver $startdir/pkg/usr/lib/xorg/modules || return 1
install X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so $startdir/pkg/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers || return 1
install X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so.$pkgver $startdir/pkg/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions || return 1
install -m755 bin/nvidia-{settings,xconfig,bug-report.sh} $startdir/pkg/usr/bin/ || return 1
cd $startdir/pkg/usr/lib/
ln -s libGL.so.$pkgver libGL.so || return 1
ln -s libGL.so.$pkgver libGL.so.1 || return 1
ln -s libGLcore.so.$pkgver libGLcore.so.1 || return 1
ln -s libnvidia-cfg.so.$pkgver libnvidia-cfg.so.1 || return 1
ln -s libnvidia-tls.so.$pkgver libnvidia-tls.so.1 || return 1
ln -s libcuda.so.$pkgver libcuda.so.1 || return 1
ln -s libXvMCNVIDIA.so.$pkgver libXvMCNVIDIA_dynamic.so.1 || return 1
cd $startdir/pkg/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions
ln -s libglx.so.$pkgver libglx.so || return 1
install -m644 $startdir/src/NVIDIA-Linux-${ARCH}-${pkgver}-pkg0/LICENSE $startdir/pkg/usr/share/licenses/nvidia/ || return 1
ln -s nvidia $startdir/pkg/usr/share/licenses/nvidia-utils || return 1
install -D -m644 $startdir/src/NVIDIA-Linux-${ARCH}-${pkgver}-pkg0/usr/share/doc/README.txt $startdir/pkg/usr/share/doc/nvidia/README || return 1
install -D -m644 $startdir/src/supported-cards.txt $startdir/pkg/usr/share/doc/nvidia/supported-cards.txt || return 1
find $startdir/pkg/usr -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
# phew :)
PS: I removed the mdsums as i am on i686 and i don't have the "sources" for x86_64. These are edited 169.12 PKGBUILDs