On Wednesday 02 May 2012 17:37:50 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2012-05-02 12:51 +0200, David Baron wrote: > > VGA-compatible devices on PCI bus: > > ---------------------------------- > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation NV44 > > [GeForce 6200 TurboCache(TM)] [10de:0161] (rev a1) > > The 3D driver for this card is known to have many problems and is > unsupported upstream. In Mesa git master it has been replaced by a > different driver that will hopefully be better. For now it is > recommended to use Nvidia's 173xx legacy driver if you want to play 3D > games.
The card does work perfectly with the regular nvidia package on Sid, not the 173 legacy. I manually reconfigured for Nouveau mostly to check out a possible kde4.7-nvidia problem which was not the case. Nouveau is also necessary for the real-time preemptive kernel images on Sid because of non gnu variable names being used. What I would really like to do is choose the nvidia or nouveau at boot time. Would involve copying xorg.conf versions, a modprob.d blacklist, and setting alternatives for glx and libGL.
