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James wrote: |
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> hello, |
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> I have a couple of old 32bit amd athlon XP systems: |
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> They have very old, no longer supported nvidia cards: |
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> NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] && NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] |
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> All ebuilds that could satisfy |
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> "x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers" have been masked" |
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> These systems are used to run jffnms, postgresql rrdtool |
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> to show network devices and their status. Nothing fancy |
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> just 2D and kde. |
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> These cards were supported by the Nvidia legacy driver |
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> but now that's gone there is no support for these cards. |
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> So I guess I'd like to replace them with something that |
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> is open source on the driver, so as to keep support a long time. |
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> (perhaps an old ATI card?) |
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> I think they are AGP 4 motherboards. |
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> I intend to use them for a long time as to drive a graphical |
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> display for network monitoring and management. |
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> Any low cost suggestions are most welcome, particularly something |
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> that is open source on the driver, so I can keep them useful |
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> for a long time. |
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> James |
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I have this card as reported by lspci: |
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02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX |
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5200] (rev a1) |
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This is the driver that I use: |
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[I--] [ -] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-169.09-r1 (0) |
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This is the setting in my make.conf file for this card: |
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VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" |
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It all seems to work fine here so may be worth a try to see if it will |
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work for you as well. I use KDE here and the video works very well for |
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a older card. |
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Hope that helps. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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