Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What version of nvidia-drivers to use with FX5200?

[Michael P. Soulier]

On 08/02/09 Grant Edwards said:

> I know.  173.15 and newer don't support FX5200 cards.
>
> I tried several different 173.14.xx versions and none of them
> work for me (I don't remmeber if .09 was one of them).  I
> always got an illegal instruction traps when Xorg is starting.
> Other people reported that same problem to nvidia, but AFAICT,
> there was never any fix.
>
> I went back to 100.19 and a 2.6.24 kernel and it seems to work
> fine.  It's a bit dissappointing that my card isn't suported by
> recent drivers/kernels when it's only about 1-1/2 years old.

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]
(rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 80cf
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 248, IRQ 16
        Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
        [virtual] Expansion ROM at e9000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [44] AGP version 3.0
        Kernel driver in use: nvidia
        Kernel modules: nvidia

msoulier@anton:~$ equery list | grep nvidia
media-video/nvidia-settings-169.07
x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.15

msoulier@anton:~$ uname -a
Linux anton 2.6.25-gentoo-r8 #9 Sun Nov 23 19:14:08 EST 2008 i686 AMD
Athlon(tm) XP 1700+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

This works for me. I'm masking out newer nvidia-drivers now and kernels, since
I'm told that version of nvidia-drivers won't build against a newer kernel.

Mike
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