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From: "Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@×××××××××××××.ca>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What version of nvidia-drivers to use with FX5200?
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2009 12:10:12
Message-Id: 20090208120958.GF10866@anton.digitaltorque.ca
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: What version of nvidia-drivers to use with FX5200? by Grant Edwards
1 On 08/02/09 Grant Edwards said:
2
3 > I know. 173.15 and newer don't support FX5200 cards.
4 >
5 > I tried several different 173.14.xx versions and none of them
6 > work for me (I don't remmeber if .09 was one of them). I
7 > always got an illegal instruction traps when Xorg is starting.
8 > Other people reported that same problem to nvidia, but AFAICT,
9 > there was never any fix.
10 >
11 > I went back to 100.19 and a 2.6.24 kernel and it seems to work
12 > fine. It's a bit dissappointing that my card isn't suported by
13 > recent drivers/kernels when it's only about 1-1/2 years old.
14
15 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]
16 (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
17 Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 80cf
18 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 248, IRQ 16
19 Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
20 Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
21 [virtual] Expansion ROM at e9000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
22 Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
23 Capabilities: [44] AGP version 3.0
24 Kernel driver in use: nvidia
25 Kernel modules: nvidia
26
27 msoulier@anton:~$ equery list | grep nvidia
28 media-video/nvidia-settings-169.07
29 x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.15
30
31 msoulier@anton:~$ uname -a
32 Linux anton 2.6.25-gentoo-r8 #9 Sun Nov 23 19:14:08 EST 2008 i686 AMD
33 Athlon(tm) XP 1700+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
34
35 This works for me. I'm masking out newer nvidia-drivers now and kernels, since
36 I'm told that version of nvidia-drivers won't build against a newer kernel.
37
38 Mike
39 --
40 Michael P. Soulier <msoulier@×××××××××××××.ca>
41 "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a
42 touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."
43 --Albert Einstein

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[gentoo-user] Re: What version of nvidia-drivers to use with FX5200? Grant Edwards <grante@××××.com>