Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and a Geforce FX-5200 card.

2009-04-01 Thread Dale
Maximilian Bräutigam wrote: Hi Dale, currently I am runnning nvidia-drivers-173.14.15 for my FX-5600 and kernel version x86_64-2.6.27-gentoo-r8. I don't know, if the driver 173.14.15 works for you, but if it does, than kernel 2.6.27 might me a solution. kind regards, der Max I was

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and a Geforce FX-5200 card.

2009-04-01 Thread zhen
Dale wrote: zhen wrote: Hi, 5200 is also my card and I have recently tested it with latest nvidia driver - it doesn't work with latest stable kernel 2.6.27-r8. I've had to roll back to my old nv driver. Best regards, Evgeniy B. Do you, or anyone, know if this is a kernel thing or

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and a Geforce FX-5200 card.

2009-04-01 Thread Dale
zhen wrote: Hi, 5200 is also my card and I have recently tested it with latest nvidia driver - it doesn't work with latest stable kernel 2.6.27-r8. I've had to roll back to my old nv driver. Best regards, Evgeniy B. Do you, or anyone, know if this is a kernel thing or is this a nvidia

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and a Geforce FX-5200 card.

2009-04-01 Thread zhen
Hi, 5200 is also my card and I have recently tested it with latest nvidia driver - it doesn't work with latest stable kernel 2.6.27-r8. I've had to roll back to my old nv driver. Best regards, Evgeniy B. Dale wrote: Hi folks, I'm trying to upgrade to the newer kernel, namely

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and a Geforce FX-5200 card.

2009-04-01 Thread Dale
Maximilian Bräutigam wrote: Hi Dale, currently I am runnning nvidia-drivers-173.14.15 for my FX-5600 and kernel version x86_64-2.6.27-gentoo-r8. I don't know, if the driver 173.14.15 works for you, but if it does, than kernel 2.6.27 might me a solution. kind regards, der Max OK.

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and a Geforce FX-5200 card.

2009-04-01 Thread Maximilian Bräutigam
hi, are you sure that you have configured your kernel correctly according to the Gentoo Linux nVidia Guide? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml kind regards, der Max Am Mittwoch, den 01.04.2009, 05:34 -0500 schrieb Dale: Maximilian Bräutigam wrote: Hi Dale, currently I am

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and a Geforce FX-5200 card.

2009-04-01 Thread Dale
Maximilian Bräutigam wrote: hi, are you sure that you have configured your kernel correctly according to the Gentoo Linux nVidia Guide? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml kind regards, der Max Well, I copied my old config over and ran make oldconfig. I did try to boot it

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and a Geforce FX-5200 card.

2009-04-01 Thread Dale
Maximilian Bräutigam wrote: hi, are you sure that you have configured your kernel correctly according to the Gentoo Linux nVidia Guide? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml kind regards, der Max I double checked my config with the guide and it appears everything is correct.

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and a Geforce FX-5200 card.

2009-04-01 Thread KH
zhen schrieb: Hi, 5200 is also my card and I have recently tested it with latest nvidia driver - it doesn't work with latest stable kernel 2.6.27-r8. I've had to roll back to my old nv driver. Best regards, Evgeniy B. Dale wrote: Hi folks, I'm trying to upgrade to the newer kernel,

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and a Geforce FX-5200 card.

2009-04-01 Thread KH
Maximilian Bräutigam schrieb: hi, are you sure that you have configured your kernel correctly according to the Gentoo Linux nVidia Guide? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml kind regards, der Max Am Mittwoch, den 01.04.2009, 05:34 -0500 schrieb Dale: Maximilian Bräutigam

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and a Geforce FX-5200 card.

2009-04-01 Thread zhen
Maximilian Bräutigam wrote: hi, are you sure that you have configured your kernel correctly according to the Gentoo Linux nVidia Guide? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml kind regards, der Max Thank you for the reference! I've read the guide and now my combination (nvidia

[gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and a Geforce FX-5200 card.

2009-03-31 Thread Dale
Hi folks, I'm trying to upgrade to the newer kernel, namely gentoo-sources-2.6.29. It seems the drivers won't build against that kernel or the drivers that do build won't let X come up. How do I find out what drivers are compatible with what kernels and my old card? Currently, I am using

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and a Geforce FX-5200 card.

2009-03-31 Thread Maximilian Bräutigam
Hi Dale, currently I am runnning nvidia-drivers-173.14.15 for my FX-5600 and kernel version x86_64-2.6.27-gentoo-r8. I don't know, if the driver 173.14.15 works for you, but if it does, than kernel 2.6.27 might me a solution. kind regards, der Max Am Mittwoch, den 01.04.2009, 00:15 -0500