[gentoo-user] Re: What version of nvidia-drivers to use with FX5200?

[Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com>]

On 2009-02-08, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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)

> You may have to mask the newer ones. They do not work with
> mine at least. 

I know.  173.15 and newer don't support FX5200 cards.

I tried several different 173.14.xx versions and none of them
work for me (I don't remmeber if .09 was one of them).  I
always got an illegal instruction traps when Xorg is starting.
Other people reported that same problem to nvidia, but AFAICT,
there was never any fix.

I went back to 100.19 and a 2.6.24 kernel and it seems to work
fine.  It's a bit dissappointing that my card isn't suported by
recent drivers/kernels when it's only about 1-1/2 years old.

-- 
Grant