Re: nvidia-driver - some problems

2011-10-08 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 15:29:06 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: >> Well, AFAIK nvidia never stopped supporting their old cards. I know ATI >> did (I mean, the closed source driver), but that's another story... >> > No, they did indeed! It is now a long time, older cards (below 8XXX) > were nor > sup

Re: nvidia-driver - some problems

2011-10-08 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> Well, AFAIK nvidia never stopped supporting their old cards. I know ATI > did (I mean, the closed source driver), but that's another story... > No, they did indeed! It is now a long time, older cards (below 8XXX) were nor supported nby the nvidia-glx driver. So the kernel module could not be

Re: nvidia-driver - some problems

2011-10-08 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 14:16:11 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Am Samstag, 8. Oktober 2011 schrieb Camaleón: >> On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 13:59:45 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > >> I must have missed something, but: >> >> http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-amd64-285.05.09-driver.html >> >> Isn

Re: nvidia-driver - some problems

2011-10-08 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Me again! Now I went back to the latest nvidia driver. Building went fine (I am using dkms), but it inhibits to load. See the last strace output from "strace modprobe nvidia": stat64("/sys/module", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 stat64("/sys/module/i2c_core", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755

Re: nvidia-driver - some problems

2011-10-08 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Samstag, 8. Oktober 2011 schrieb Camaleón: > On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 13:59:45 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > I must have missed something, but: > > http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-amd64-285.05.09-driver.html > > Isnt' your card listed there ("supported products" tab)? Mine is (7600 >

Re: nvidia-driver - some problems

2011-10-08 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 13:59:45 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: >> Nope, that cannot be possible. Can you point me to some oficial >> document? I'm interested in this because I also have a 7600GS card and >> wouldn't like to have any problem in the upcoming wheezy. >> > > Well, I just do niot find it

Re: nvidia-driver - some problems

2011-10-08 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> Nope, that cannot be possible. Can you point me to some oficial document? > I'm interested in this because I also have a 7600GS card and wouldn't > like to have any problem in the upcoming wheezy. > > Greetings, Well, I just do niot find it at the moment, but the drivers from Nvidia are suppo

Re: nvidia-driver - some problems

2011-10-08 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 06:15:56 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Yes, that's what happened with that 3.0.0 nomenclature. You may not want > to hear this but the fastest solution is a new card. > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814139150 as > little as US$34.- Are you saying that

Re: nvidia-driver - some problems

2011-10-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Hello all, I am using debian/testing on my desktop pc. This computer is using a Nvidia card 7300 GT ultra. As this is an older card, I got into a little problems. My problems: 1. I want to use 3d-accceleration, so I need to use the proprietrary driver from Nvidia. 2

Re: nvidia-driver - some problems

2011-10-08 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 13:05:46 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: >> driver from Nvidia. >> > >> > 2. This card is not supported by the newest driver, but with >> > nvidia-kernel- legacy-173xx and nvidia-glx-173xx. >> >> (...) >> >> Wait, wait... That's not possible. >> >> Branch "280.xx" should be f

Re: nvidia-driver - some problems

2011-10-08 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> driver from Nvidia. > > > > 2. This card is not supported by the newest driver, but with > > nvidia-kernel- legacy-173xx and nvidia-glx-173xx. > > (...) > > Wait, wait... That's not possible. > > Branch "280.xx" should be fine for your card. What problem are you facing > with the newer driver

Re: nvidia-driver - some problems

2011-10-08 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 08/10/11 21:28, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Hello all, > > I am using debian/testing on my desktop pc. This computer is using a Nvidia > card 7300 GT ultra. As this is an older card, I got into a little problems. > My > problems: > > 1. I want to use 3d-accceleration, so I need to use the pro

Re: nvidia-driver - some problems

2011-10-08 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 12:28:13 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Hello all, > > I am using debian/testing on my desktop pc. This computer is using a > Nvidia card 7300 GT ultra. As this is an older card, I got into a little > problems. My problems: > > 1. I want to use 3d-accceleration, so I need to