On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> On Sunday 17 May 2009 19:10:05 bn wrote: >>> >>>> Dale ha scritto: >>>> >>>>> I hope someone wins the debate soon and gets this to work and be "user >>>>> friendly". I'm about to make a fresh backup and try this again. I have >>>>> upgraded my kernel to a really new version, 2.6.25. Sorry, nvidia won't >>>>> compile with anything newer that I have tried. >>>>> >>>> Uh? last nvidia-drivers needs 2.6.25 kernel? >>>> >>> Dale has an old video card and needs one of the nvidia legacy driver >>> releases. >>> He finds that that release doesn't work with kernels after .25 >>> >> >> Humm....now I'm getting interested. I just did an emerge -DuN world to >> my dad's machine in Southern California last night. He's got a 6 year >> old machine with an old nvidia card that's no longer supported by the >> newest drivers so the emerge messages tell me that I have to use an >> older legacy version of the driver. Thing is I have him on >> gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r4 using nvidia-drivers-96.43.09. Everything >> seems to be working from here. I see the driver in memory. I Can run X >> apps remotely. >> >> gandalf ~ # uname -a >> Linux gandalf 2.6.29-gentoo-r4 #3 PREEMPT Sun May 17 06:58:58 PDT 2009 >> i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux >> gandalf ~ # >> >> gandalf ~ # emerge -pv nvidia-drivers >> >> These are the packages that would be merged, in order: >> >> Calculating dependencies... done! >> [ebuild R ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-96.43.09 USE="acpi gtk >> -custom-cflags (-multilib)" 0 kB >> >> Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB >> gandalf ~ # >> >> I guess my question is whether he's going to have issues. He's really >> bad about reporting this stuff to me and I'm not there to see the >> screen or use the system. >> >> I don't see much in /var/log/Xorg.0.log other than a complaint about >> GLX and freetype. freetype I can fix. GLX I haven't looked into. >> >> Any problems? >> >> Thanks, >> Mark >> >> >> > > Hey, we got a pretty similar rig here. I have a FX5200, made by > Chaintech I think. Info alert: > > r...@smoker / # uname -a > Linux smoker 2.6.25-gentoo-r9 #3 PREEMPT Sat May 16 12:06:51 CDT 2009 > i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux > r...@smoker / # emerge -pv nvidia-drivers > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > [ebuild R ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.09 USE="acpi gtk > -custom-cflags (-multilib)" 0 kB > > Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB > r...@smoker / # lspci | grep VGA > 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX > 5200] (rev a1) > r...@smoker / # > > My drivers appears to be a little newer but you may have a older card > than me. If so, my sympathies. ;-) There is a newer version of the > 173.* series but it wouldn't compile either. I think this is the only > version that works. That goodness it does a good job. > > Dale
Dale, As far as I can tell I'm not having any problems. This machine was using a 2.6.28 kernel up until yesterday when I updated to 2.6.29-r4. The point I'm trying to make is that this old driver and all the kernels I have used up to now have all worked. I noticed that the machine does have the older C compile 4.1.2 on it and that's what most of the machine has been built with. I'm just starting to switch over to 4.3.2 which is why it's selected. This kernel and the version of nvidia-drivers I listed earlier compile on both for me. The one I used for this kernel/driver combo was 4.3.2/ gandalf ~ # gcc-config -l [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.1.2 [2] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.3.2 * gandalf ~ # The VGA is older I think. 440 series. I suspect it's the one I put in 5-6 years ago. I don't remember whether we ever updated it: gandalf ~ # lspci | grep VGA 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev a2) gandalf ~ # In my case attempting to install anything newer results in a big emerge message telling me not to and suggesting this specific nvdia driver. gandalf ~ # lsmod Module Size Used by usblp 10140 0 uhci_hcd 18980 0 sbp2 19184 1 usbhid 21468 2 nvidia 4699324 0 i2c_nforce2 5828 0 ohci_hcd 20080 0 snd_intel8x0 25784 0 nvidia_agp 5704 1 snd_ac97_codec 90232 1 snd_intel8x0 ac97_bus 1316 1 snd_ac97_codec agpgart 25748 2 nvidia,nvidia_agp i2c_core 17564 2 nvidia,i2c_nforce2 ohci1394 25664 1 ehci_hcd 29380 0 ieee1394 66064 2 sbp2,ohci1394 gandalf ~ # gandalf ~ # modinfo nvidia filename: /lib/modules/2.6.29-gentoo-r4/video/nvidia.ko license: NVIDIA alias: char-major-195-* alias: pci:v000010DEd*sv*sd*bc03sc02i00* alias: pci:v000010DEd*sv*sd*bc03sc00i00* depends: agpgart,i2c-core vermagic: 2.6.29-gentoo-r4 preempt mod_unload K7 parm: NVreg_VideoMemoryTypeOverride:int parm: NVreg_EnableVia4x:int parm: NVreg_EnableALiAGP:int parm: NVreg_ReqAGPRate:int parm: NVreg_NvAGP:int parm: NVreg_EnableAGPSBA:int parm: NVreg_EnableAGPFW:int parm: NVreg_SoftEDIDs:int parm: NVreg_Mobile:int parm: NVreg_ModifyDeviceFiles:int parm: NVreg_DeviceFileUID:int parm: NVreg_DeviceFileGID:int parm: NVreg_DeviceFileMode:int parm: NVreg_ResmanDebugLevel:int parm: NVreg_FlatPanelMode:int parm: NVreg_DevicesConnected:int parm: NVreg_RmLogonRC:int parm: NVreg_RemapLimit:int parm: NVreg_UpdateMemoryTypes:int parm: NVreg_DetectPrimaryVga:int parm: NVreg_RegistryDwords:charp parm: NVreg_VbiosFromROM:int parm: NVreg_EnableBrightnessControl:int parm: NVreg_PanelPWMFrequency:int parm: NVreg_PanelBrightnessLimits:int parm: NVreg_RMEdgeIntrCheck:int parm: NVreg_UsePageAttributeTable:int parm: NVreg_MapRegistersEarly:int gandalf ~ # - Mark
