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On 2009-02-08, Michael P. Soulier <msoulier@×××××××××××××.ca> wrote: |
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> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] |
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>[...] |
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> msoulier@anton:~$ equery list | grep nvidia |
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> media-video/nvidia-settings-169.07 |
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> x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.15 |
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> |
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> msoulier@anton:~$ uname -a |
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> Linux anton 2.6.25-gentoo-r8 #9 Sun Nov 23 19:14:08 EST 2008 i686 AMD |
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> Athlon(tm) XP 1700+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux |
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> This works for me. I'm masking out newer nvidia-drivers now |
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> and kernels, since I'm told that version of nvidia-drivers |
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> won't build against a newer kernel. |
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I never got any of the 173.14 series to work -- I alwasy got an |
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illegal instruction trap as Xorg was starting up. My box is a |
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Celeron Mendocino, and I suspect that the binary blob in |
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173.14.xx drivers is incompatile with older processors. So |
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it's not my card that's not supported by 173.14.xx, but my CPU. |
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There's also a chance that it's not the CPU which is |
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unsupported by 173.14.xx but rather the PCI bus interface, but |
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because the fault is illegal instruction, I'm guessing the CPU |
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is no longer supported by the driver. |
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The 100.19.xx series seems to work, but I had to go back to |
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2.6.24 to get it to build. |
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Grant |
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