On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 12:14:37AM -0500, Chris Knadle wrote: > I have a GeForce FX 5200 and the newer nvidia-glx_180.29-1 and related > packages won't work for it, either. > > From looking at nVidia's website, the latest drivers for GeForce 5 FX > series cards is 173.14.12. The nvidia-glx_180.29-1 package doesn't > support the GeForce 5 FX series cards anymore, even though the Debian > package description says it does. :-( The fact that support for > these chipsets has been dropped is specified in the README document > in /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx/README.txt.gz in the nvidia-glx_180.29-1 > package just after Appendix A2, starting at line 5067. > > So unfortunately the nvidia 173.14.09 packages will need to be > retained and maintained. :-/ And the package description for the > nvidia 180.29-1 packages needs updating to remove unsupported > chipsets. > > I'm retaining a custom kernel built with the nvidia_180.29-1 drivers, > so if more detail is requested I can supply it.
Of course you can already run an FX 5xxx card with legacy 96xx, so you do already have a work around. A legacy 173 package does seem desirable though. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
