[gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.10 breaks nvidia-drivers

[gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.10 breaks nvidia-drivers

[walt]

I just updated from xorg-server-1.9 to 1.10, but even the newest beta from nvidia
complains that 1.10 isn't supported yet for my video cards GeForce FX 5200 and
GeForce 6150SE.

Perhaps drivers for newer cards will work, but I don't know.

The good old nv driver still works with 1.10, happily.

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.10 breaks nvidia-drivers

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Friday 01 April 2011 08:09:04 walt wrote:
> I just updated from xorg-server-1.9 to 1.10, but even the newest beta from
> nvidia complains that 1.10 isn't supported yet for my video cards GeForce
> FX 5200 and GeForce 6150SE.
> 
> Perhaps drivers for newer cards will work, but I don't know.
> 
> The good old nv driver still works with 1.10, happily.

and with 'works' you mean it displays something. Very, very slowly. 

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.10 breaks nvidia-drivers

[Yohan Pereira]

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On Friday 01 Apr 2011 08:39:04 PM walt wrote:
> The good old nv driver still works with 1.10, happily.

have you tried nouveau? works well here.

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- Yohan Pereira

"A man can do as he will, but not will as he will" - Schopenhauer

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Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.10 breaks nvidia-drivers

[John Campbell]

On 04/01/2011 08:09 AM, walt wrote:
> I just updated from xorg-server-1.9 to 1.10, but even the newest beta
> from nvidia
> complains that 1.10 isn't supported yet for my video cards GeForce FX
> 5200 and
> GeForce 6150SE.
>
> Perhaps drivers for newer cards will work, but I don't know.
>
> The good old nv driver still works with 1.10, happily.

The 270.30 drivers work for newer cards.  It does look like Nvidia has 
been letting the legacy drivers slide though.  I'm not sure how the 
legacy numbering system works, but the newest legacy driver seems to be 
from October.

Just to make sure though, as I forgot to to rebuild the drivers, and had 
evdev failures...you did rebuild your drivers x11-drivers?

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server-1.10 breaks nvidia-drivers

[walt]

On 04/01/2011 01:23 PM, Yohan Pereira wrote:
> On Friday 01 Apr 2011 08:39:04 PM walt wrote:
>
>  > The good old nv driver still works with 1.10, happily.
>
>
> have you tried nouveau? works well here.

Yes, a few months ago, but I had the same problem with slow bug-fixes for the
older chipsets like mine.  The drivers worked well about 90% of the time and
were unusable the other 10%.  I reverted to xorg 1.95 and all is good again :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server-1.10 breaks nvidia-drivers

[Peter Humphrey]

On Saturday 02 April 2011 12:32:32 walt wrote:

> I had the same problem with slow bug-fixes for the older chipsets like mine. 

Is this the moment to upgrade your video card? They seem to be cheap enough, 
even here in UK.

-- 
Rgds
Peter

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server-1.10 breaks nvidia-drivers

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 04/02/2011 06:25 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Saturday 02 April 2011 12:32:32 walt wrote:
>
>> I had the same problem with slow bug-fixes for the older chipsets like mine.
>
> Is this the moment to upgrade your video card? They seem to be cheap enough,
> even here in UK.

On the other hand, xorg-server 1.9.5 is perfectly fine! ;-)