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On 5/3/06, S. Schwartz <sigi.schwartz@×××××××××××××.de> wrote: |
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> Richard Fish wrote: |
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> > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127618 |
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> Thanks for the link, very interesting indeed. |
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> In comment #18 someone says that Nvidia won't release a newer legacy |
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> driver set any time soon, whereas in the nVNews-forum someone from |
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> NVIDIA Corporation announced that an updated legacy graphics driver is |
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> planned for the near future. That one should match 1.0-8756. |
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> Sounds pretty bad and good at the same time. Still: isn't someone of the |
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> Gentoo-guys (experienced in patching) able to patch the old 6629 for the |
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> time being or do I simply underestimate the effort? |
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The fact that no patch has been forthcoming, either from Gentoo or |
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someone on the nvnews forums, is probably an indicator that there is |
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no developer with all of: |
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a. A card requiring the legacy drivers. |
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b. A need to use 2.6.16+. |
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c. Knowledge of what needs to be done to fix the drivers. |
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d. The motivation to spend time supporting a proprietary driver. |
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As Chris indicated, you are being screwed by NVidia. Their 7174 |
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drivers are broken, and they are being very slow to fix them. The |
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previous release is stable, but won't work with new kernels. Pretty |
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much the same old story of proprietary drivers on Linux unfortunately. |
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-Richard |
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