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On 3/28/06, Chad Feller <cfeller@××××××××××.edu> wrote: |
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> I've got an old nVida card: |
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> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV6 [Vanta/Vanta |
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> LT] (rev 15) |
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> and am using the 7174. GLX, DRI it all works well. I've been putting |
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> off upgrading to modular X on this box until I knew that any bugs which |
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> might affect the nVidia kernel were resolved. So has anyone using this |
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> unified driver upgraded to modular Xorg and still had GLX, DRI all work |
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> using the nVidia 7174? |
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> gentoo-user@g.o mailing list |
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I also have an old nvidia card: |
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# lspci |
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01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV15 [GeForce2 |
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GTS/Pro] (rev a4) |
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and am using the 7167 driver. I upgraded to modular X this weekend. |
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The only problem i ran into was this bug: |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111877 |
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To get around this, I had to switch to the X opengl interface, emerge |
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X, then switch back to the nvidia interface. I also made sure to |
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rebuild the nvidia module after the X upgrade. |
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No problems so far. Haven't really noticed any differnce in speed, |
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stability, etc. |
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HTH, |
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Matt |
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