Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5

[Dale]

Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.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:

root@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
root@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
root@smoker / # lspci | grep VGA
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX
5200] (rev a1)
root@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

:-)  :-)