James,

NV is an open source driver supporting all NVidia cards, but does not
support hardware acceleration.  There are numerous and very annoying bugs
reported with this driver.  NVIDIA is a proprietary driver which supports 2D
and 3D hardware acceleration through the GF2 series of cards.  This is your
best option.  NVIDIA-LEGACY is a driver I was not even aware of, but I'm
guessing this would support GF1, 256, and TNT cards that have been bumped
out of the main driver for space.  Both of your cards should use the NVIDIA
driver.  You can use this flag in your make.conf settings for xorg 7,
however it will really not have much affect.  You'll need to emerge these
seperately as far as I know.

# emerge nvidia-glx nvidia-kernel

then go on and emerge your xorg 7.  Be sure to read about driver
compatibility problems with XOrg 7.1 and up on the gentoo-wiki site if you
plan to use that version of xorg.

JBDubbs

On 7/10/06, James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
>
>
> Sorry for revisiting a confusing subject, but after ready many of the
> recent
> postings on nvidia and xorg-7* I have a few questions.
>
> Yes I have read:
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml
> and it looks fine and reasonable, in fact the I'm at the revdep-rebuild
> on my first of 7 convertions to modular X.(7.*).
>
> My first card:
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX
> 400]
> (rev b2)
>
> Legacy or current? It's not clear to me which category this or any other
> nvidia cards fall into. Is there a table I can look up to see which
> nvidia cards belong to which driver.
>
> In xorg.conf do I use do  'nv' or 'nvidia' or 'nvidia-legacy'
> Driver      "nv"
> Driver      "nvidia"
> Driver       "nvidia-legacy"
>
> With my hardware, which current nvidia driver (legacy) would I emerge
> to match my card?
>
> On another gentoo workstation It has this card:
>
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX
> 5200]
> (rev a1)
>
> Which Driver would I choose for this nvidia card?
>
> James
>
>
>
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