-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 We would very much like to see a 96xx NVidia driver appear in Debian (experimental or unstable or (later) etch-backports or whereever). The 97xx currently in experimental does not work for our hardware. The 8776 does, and previous drivers have done so.
The details: By and large, this is an Etch system, with very little unstable stuff thrown in. The Etch Nvidia driver works well for us, with the exception that it does not support compiz (for all we know). We wanted to have a look at that eye candy. This afternoon, we grabbed nvidia-glx_1.0.9746-2_i386.deb from experimental and installed that. The installation process from nvidia-kernel-2.6.18-3-k7, 1.0.8776+5 to nvidia-kernel-source_1.0.9746-2_i386.deb went smoothly as documented. However, when trying to start X windows with our new driver, we ran into this problem: (II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver 1.0-9746 Fri Dec 15 09:56:41 PST 2006 (II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs (II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0 (WW) NVIDIA(0): The NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 4000 GPU installed in this system is (WW) NVIDIA(0): supported through the NVIDIA 1.0-96xx Legacy drivers. (WW) NVIDIA(0): Please visit http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for (WW) NVIDIA(0): more information. The 1.0-9746 NVIDIA driver will ignore (WW) NVIDIA(0): this GPU. Continuing probe... (EE) No devices detected. Fatal server error: no screens found Here is the card we have: # lspci | grep -i nvidia 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 \ [GeForce4 MX 4000 AGP 8x] (rev c1) Regards, and thank you for providing fine software, Andreas - -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP-Schlüssel 0xA207E340 (http://www.pca.dfn.de/dfnpca/pgpkserv/) Fingerprint B46B C7BA FFEE AD41 35DD 49C3 9D6A E529 A207 E340 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFs6+InWrlKaIH40ARAjk/AKCB/7Lha2zVgPYdw3jYgDjlbuDA5gCgqNfp IYKvzIMytIzlGUk7XyEk1wo= =QaNY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
