Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What version of nvidia-drivers to use with FX5200?
On 08/02/09 Grant Edwards said: I know. 173.15 and newer don't support FX5200 cards. I tried several different 173.14.xx versions and none of them work for me (I don't remmeber if .09 was one of them). I always got an illegal instruction traps when Xorg is starting. Other people reported that same problem to nvidia, but AFAICT, there was never any fix. I went back to 100.19 and a 2.6.24 kernel and it seems to work fine. It's a bit dissappointing that my card isn't suported by recent drivers/kernels when it's only about 1-1/2 years old. 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 80cf Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 248, IRQ 16 Memory at e800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Memory at e000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] [virtual] Expansion ROM at e900 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [44] AGP version 3.0 Kernel driver in use: nvidia Kernel modules: nvidia msoul...@anton:~$ equery list | grep nvidia media-video/nvidia-settings-169.07 x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.15 msoul...@anton:~$ uname -a Linux anton 2.6.25-gentoo-r8 #9 Sun Nov 23 19:14:08 EST 2008 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1700+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux This works for me. I'm masking out newer nvidia-drivers now and kernels, since I'm told that version of nvidia-drivers won't build against a newer kernel. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein pgpTNT7R7pj8Z.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: What version of nvidia-drivers to use with FX5200?
On 2009-02-08, Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca wrote: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] [...] msoul...@anton:~$ equery list | grep nvidia media-video/nvidia-settings-169.07 x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.15 msoul...@anton:~$ uname -a Linux anton 2.6.25-gentoo-r8 #9 Sun Nov 23 19:14:08 EST 2008 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1700+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux This works for me. I'm masking out newer nvidia-drivers now and kernels, since I'm told that version of nvidia-drivers won't build against a newer kernel. I never got any of the 173.14 series to work -- I alwasy got an illegal instruction trap as Xorg was starting up. My box is a Celeron Mendocino, and I suspect that the binary blob in 173.14.xx drivers is incompatile with older processors. So it's not my card that's not supported by 173.14.xx, but my CPU. There's also a chance that it's not the CPU which is unsupported by 173.14.xx but rather the PCI bus interface, but because the fault is illegal instruction, I'm guessing the CPU is no longer supported by the driver. The 100.19.xx series seems to work, but I had to go back to 2.6.24 to get it to build. -- Grant
[gentoo-user] Re: What version of nvidia-drivers to use with FX5200?
On 2009-02-08, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I have a FX5200 here and this works well. r...@smoker / # equery list nvidia [ Searching for package 'nvidia' in all categories among: ] * installed packages [I--] [ ] media-video/nvidia-settings-169.07 (0) [I--] [ ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.09 (0) You may have to mask the newer ones. They do not work with mine at least. I know. 173.15 and newer don't support FX5200 cards. I tried several different 173.14.xx versions and none of them work for me (I don't remmeber if .09 was one of them). I always got an illegal instruction traps when Xorg is starting. Other people reported that same problem to nvidia, but AFAICT, there was never any fix. I went back to 100.19 and a 2.6.24 kernel and it seems to work fine. It's a bit dissappointing that my card isn't suported by recent drivers/kernels when it's only about 1-1/2 years old. -- Grant
