From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LW1BX-0005In-PY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 08 Feb 2009 04:22:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 99101E030B; Sun, 8 Feb 2009 04:22:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com (wf-out-1314.google.com [209.85.200.168]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E4A0E030B for ; Sun, 8 Feb 2009 04:22:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 29so1470252wff.10 for ; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 20:22:21 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=0jYkYoF1yUshCX9vLK1HbphyBo1cWMjhYJuH8CqThPY=; b=LAMvN0a/HiftO+zmyHnd/rjBFG6qbClgJWekPw52u2UmQw1lEFfdXs0eLWfrIJfAc+ JZJ9xFi+hifPOgAVbvNHdzdTUAbF9/o33x5uouD/ZalDd0jV8JjzsAa4Smw1ABmgvAPF Dci7jDmaAx6M5BSHrZtXR4qsH+meao30O9Vfw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=pRN1JWW5W6jScjxQG8/n8KTXGM7OAZZGQIznuxOteDCsUzDYHSHid0uZVseQ0n0ily 0axgnMj2QG01d3FiRhU3++GbV1rfbzxbv1+Wj1ogrlAD8sMfGTkRMbUFAhIGeuL5P5TY JNlnrPackAmtr1KM3kJpufbUnItzlex/hES6I= Received: by 10.142.230.11 with SMTP id c11mr2035708wfh.219.1234066941077; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 20:22:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?4.230.117.96? (dialup-4.230.117.96.Dial1.Houston1.Level3.net [4.230.117.96]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 24sm7504036wff.22.2009.02.07.20.22.18 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 07 Feb 2009 20:22:20 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <498E5DFC.7060206@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2009 22:22:20 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081227 SeaMonkey/1.1.14 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What version of nvidia-drivers to use with FX5200? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 682f48db-1b34-43a7-891d-7ba1aec51ee4 X-Archives-Hash: 7fb2ecc626ec177d7fb584b2a4d92fed Grant Edwards wrote: > I can't seem to find an nvidia driver version that works with a > PCI FX5200. Versions later >= 173.15 don't support the 5200 > series. I tried several 173.14.xx versions, and they all build > and the nvidia module loads, but Xorg dies with an illegal > instruction signal when it starts. (Xorg runs fine with the > "nv" driver.) I'm trying the 100.14.19 driver, but so far, I > can't get it to compile. I've tried 2.6.27 and 2.6.25 kernels, > and the nvidia module fails to compile with them. I'm trying > 2.6.24 next, but it takes so long to build kernels on a 400MHz > box that the trail and error approach is pretty frustrating. > > Is there a database somewhere of what nvidia driver versions > work with which kernel versions and which boards? > > I have a FX5200 here and this works well. root@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) root@smoker / # root@smoker / # cat /etc/make.conf | grep nv VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv" root@smoker / # You may have to mask the newer ones. They do not work with mine at least. The last info is in make.conf. Dale :-) :-)