[ Thanks to Michael Larabel for this
link. ]
“Launched on August 11 of this year, during the QuakeCon 2005
gaming event, was NVIDIA’s 7800GT part that came nearly two months
after the 7800GTX 256MB inauguration. Although NVIDIA was quick to
release the ForceWare 77.72 drivers for Microsoft Windows on June
22 to support the GTX, the Linux 1.0-7667 drivers released on the
same day were quite problematic with this new architecture. The
main problem pertaining to the Linux drivers was the inability to
properly change frequencies upon launching an application so rather
than running at the standard 430/1200MHz (GPU/MEM) the 3D core
frequency instead would run at 275MHz, which minimized the
performance benefits substantially over the GeForce 6 series.
Luckily, the issue had been corrected in the 1.0-7676 drivers that
were released on August 09, 2005. Even at this time, the NVIDIA
Linux display drivers continue to lack some essential features
(i.e. HDR lighting and Transparency Adaptive
Supersampling/Transparency Adaptive MultiSampling) that have been
provided by the Windows ForceWare drivers since the 77.72
release…”