On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > Will that combination work? > > I'm having trouble finding the right combination of kernel, > nvidia-driver and xorg-server for a remote machine. > > The machine was running xorg-server-1.5 with 2.6.29-gentoo-r4 and > nvidia-drivers-96.43.09. So far when I try to use the newer > xorg-server-1.6 it seems to not like that kernel and when I use a > newer kernel it doesn't like that nvidia-driver. When I try to update > the driver I get messages along the line of this VGA not being > supported by the newer driver. > > Where do I find info on what kernels are required for > xorg-server-1.6 and then what drivers are supporting this device? > > Thanks, > Mark > As a follow-up I found this page at NVidia:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_32667.html The device is listed in the second group - driver-1.0-96xx driver. Is that by any chance the same as the "nvidia-drivers-96.43.xx" package? If so how do I determine what kernel and xorg-server that will work with? Thanks, Mark
