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 1LWBDP-0003IK-6W for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:04:59 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5BC86E03D2; Sun, 8 Feb 2009 15:04:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C1D6E03D2 for ; Sun, 8 Feb 2009 15:04:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5B9D64FE3 for ; Sun, 8 Feb 2009 15:04:56 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.599 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.599 required=5.5 tests=[BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id VcqRZJaKVRKm for ; Sun, 8 Feb 2009 15:04:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0FB164FDD for ; Sun, 8 Feb 2009 15:04:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LWBDB-0008F1-TU for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:04:46 +0000 Received: from adsl-99-145-192-37.dsl.chcgil.sbcglobal.net ([99.145.192.37]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:04:45 +0000 Received: from grante by adsl-99-145-192-37.dsl.chcgil.sbcglobal.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:04:45 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: What version of nvidia-drivers to use with FX5200? Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 15:04:36 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <498E5DFC.7060206@gmail.com> <20090208120958.GF10866@anton.digitaltorque.ca> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-99-145-192-37.dsl.chcgil.sbcglobal.net User-Agent: slrn/pre0.9.9-102 (Linux) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 9caaf041-4043-4bf4-8851-7ce02ac4eb81 X-Archives-Hash: 90a43c0c21e9597d38ab6e1ad3fb7484 On 2009-02-08, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] >[...] > msoulier@anton:~$ equery list | grep nvidia > media-video/nvidia-settings-169.07 > x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.15 > > msoulier@anton:~$ uname -a > Linux anton 2.6.25-gentoo-r8 #9 Sun Nov 23 19:14:08 EST 2008 i686 AMD > Athlon(tm) XP 1700+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux > > This works for me. I'm masking out newer nvidia-drivers now > and kernels, since I'm told that version of nvidia-drivers > won't build against a newer kernel. I never got any of the 173.14 series to work -- I alwasy got an illegal instruction trap as Xorg was starting up. My box is a Celeron Mendocino, and I suspect that the binary blob in 173.14.xx drivers is incompatile with older processors. So it's not my card that's not supported by 173.14.xx, but my CPU. There's also a chance that it's not the CPU which is unsupported by 173.14.xx but rather the PCI bus interface, but because the fault is illegal instruction, I'm guessing the CPU is no longer supported by the driver. The 100.19.xx series seems to work, but I had to go back to 2.6.24 to get it to build. -- Grant