Re: [Slackbuilds-users] certified nvidia drivers

2011-09-16 Thread King Beowulf
A plenty good enough survey for me. I can continue to support the legacy nvidia drivers. I was just wondering if any one was using them. Pending wife "to-do" list this weekend, I'll take a look at the current state or affairs. I know Nvidia has posted a few updates for newer kernel support. --

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] certified nvidia drivers

2011-09-16 Thread Phillip Warner
--- On Thu, 9/15/11, King Beowulf wrote: BTW, is anyone on this list using any of the nvidia-legacy drivers?  At the moment, all I have left running are a 7600GS, GT430 and GT550 for testing.  My old TNT2, GF256 DDR, GF4 TI 4800 are long gone.  Since nouveau is almost there, I'm thinking about

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] certified nvidia drivers

2011-09-16 Thread Doogster
King Beowulf, The state-of-the-art driver is more important to me, so that's the series I would personally like to see you focus on. There should be room now for a separate nvidia-legacy-kernel and nvidia-legacy-driver series of SlackBuilds. If you don't want to maintain those, then I'm sure that

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] certified nvidia drivers

2011-09-16 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 16/09/2011 02:51, King Beowulf a écrit : Thanks for the clarification. I don't know why I couldn't figure that out when I checked...but it was after midnight BTW, is anyone on this list using any of the nvidia-legacy drivers? Yes. Me. All the time. I often install Slackware on older Hardwa

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] certified nvidia drivers

2011-09-15 Thread B Watson
On 9/15/11, King Beowulf wrote: > > BTW, is anyone on this list using any of the nvidia-legacy drivers? At the > moment, all I have left running are a 7600GS, GT430 and GT550 for testing. > My old TNT2, GF256 DDR, GF4 TI 4800 are long gone. Since nouveau is almost > there, I'm thinking about dro

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] certified nvidia drivers

2011-09-15 Thread King Beowulf
Thanks for the clarification. I don't know why I couldn't figure that out when I checked...but it was after midnight BTW, is anyone on this list using any of the nvidia-legacy drivers? At the moment, all I have left running are a 7600GS, GT430 and GT550 for testing. My old TNT2, GF256 DDR, GF4 T

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] certified nvidia drivers

2011-09-15 Thread Doogster
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=2479770&postcount=7 275.28 is the LTS On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 12:06 AM, King Beowulf wrote: > I am not yet sure what this means, but the certified nvidia drivers 208.13 > (Aug 1) recently posted to the repository, have been "superseded" by Nvidia >

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] certified nvidia drivers

2011-09-15 Thread Doogster
275.28 is the LTS series. 280.13 is the state-of-the-art series. I would prefer to have the state-of-the-art series. On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 12:06 AM, King Beowulf wrote: > I am not yet sure what this means, but the certified nvidia drivers 208.13 > (Aug 1) recently posted to the repository, hav

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] certified nvidia drivers

2011-09-15 Thread Keith Richie
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 3:06 AM, King Beowulf wrote: > I am not yet sure what this means, but the certified nvidia drivers 208.13 > (Aug 1) recently posted to the repository, have been "superseded" by Nvidia > recommended version 275.28 September 7, 2011, if you check on www.nvidia.com > > However

[Slackbuilds-users] certified nvidia drivers

2011-09-15 Thread King Beowulf
I am not yet sure what this means, but the certified nvidia drivers 208.13 (Aug 1) recently posted to the repository, have been "superseded" by Nvidia recommended version 275.28 September 7, 2011, if you check on www.nvidia.com However, over at www.geforce.com, version 280.13 is the current recomm