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On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 07:10:48PM +0000, James wrote: |
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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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Huh? Whatdya mean they are gone? |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml |
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Just put >=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-87.00 in |
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/etc/portage/package.mask |
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and you'll get the legacy drivers, no? |
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And if you only use them for 2D graphics, might want to try the nv |
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driver. |
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HTH, |
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408 Fine Hall, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton |
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