Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On Sunday 17 May 2009 19:10:05 bn wrote: >> >>> Dale ha scritto: >>> >>>> I hope someone wins the debate soon and gets this to work and be "user >>>> friendly". I'm about to make a fresh backup and try this again. I have >>>> upgraded my kernel to a really new version, 2.6.25. Sorry, nvidia won't >>>> compile with anything newer that I have tried. >>>> >>> Uh? last nvidia-drivers needs 2.6.25 kernel? >>> >> Dale has an old video card and needs one of the nvidia legacy driver >> releases. >> He finds that that release doesn't work with kernels after .25 >> > > Humm....now I'm getting interested. I just did an emerge -DuN world to > my dad's machine in Southern California last night. He's got a 6 year > old machine with an old nvidia card that's no longer supported by the > newest drivers so the emerge messages tell me that I have to use an > older legacy version of the driver. Thing is I have him on > gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r4 using nvidia-drivers-96.43.09. Everything > seems to be working from here. I see the driver in memory. I Can run X > apps remotely. > > gandalf ~ # uname -a > Linux gandalf 2.6.29-gentoo-r4 #3 PREEMPT Sun May 17 06:58:58 PDT 2009 > i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux > gandalf ~ # > > gandalf ~ # emerge -pv nvidia-drivers > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > [ebuild R ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-96.43.09 USE="acpi gtk > -custom-cflags (-multilib)" 0 kB > > Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB > gandalf ~ # > > I guess my question is whether he's going to have issues. He's really > bad about reporting this stuff to me and I'm not there to see the > screen or use the system. > > I don't see much in /var/log/Xorg.0.log other than a complaint about > GLX and freetype. freetype I can fix. GLX I haven't looked into. > > Any problems? > > Thanks, > Mark > > >
Hey, we got a pretty similar rig here. I have a FX5200, made by Chaintech I think. Info alert: r...@smoker / # uname -a Linux smoker 2.6.25-gentoo-r9 #3 PREEMPT Sat May 16 12:06:51 CDT 2009 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux r...@smoker / # emerge -pv nvidia-drivers These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.09 USE="acpi gtk -custom-cflags (-multilib)" 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB r...@smoker / # lspci | grep VGA 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1) r...@smoker / # My drivers appears to be a little newer but you may have a older card than me. If so, my sympathies. ;-) There is a newer version of the 173.* series but it wouldn't compile either. I think this is the only version that works. That goodness it does a good job. Dale :-) :-)
