rdalek1967 at gmail
Nov 9, 2009, 3:16 AM
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William Kenworthy wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 03:06 -0600, Dale wrote:
>
>> Bill Kenworthy wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 01:13 +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Sun, 8 Nov 2009 18:46:15 -0600, Roy Wright wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Was at xorg-server-1.6.3 and current sync tried to upgrade to 1.7.1,
>>>>> which failed to compile. In researching on b.g.o., discovered that
>>>>> nvidia has not released a driver yet that will work with 1.7.1, so
>>>>> followed the bug report directions and masked out several packages to
>>>>> prevent 1.7.1 upgrading.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> I have had xorg-server-1.7.1 and nvidia-drivers-190.42-r[23], working
>>>> together since Nov 3rd, with no masking or keywording, although this is
>>>> on ~amd64. For a while the newer xorg was blocked but as soon as the
>>>> newer nvidia-drivers hit portage, everything upgraded without a hitch.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I am just in the process of updating a machine stored for over a year -
>>> relatively straight forward except its taking awhile as expected. It
>>> has an old TNT nvidia card that needs the older drivers (169 something
>>> with 2.6.21 is working on it at the moment - I upgraded to 2.6.31 and
>>> belatedly remembered this Achilles heal for nvidia stuff :)
>>>
>>> Are the older nvidia drivers locked to older kernels? If so, is there a
>>> map that tells what driver version is usable with which kernels?
>>>
>>> BillK
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> I have a older card to, FX-5200, and sometimes finding the driver that
>> works is a trial and error process. Right now I'm using 173.14.20 but a
>> couple months ago I was using a older kernel and had to use a older
>> version that was no longer in portage, still in the 173 series tho. If
>> you have the latest stable kernel, then the latest stable nvidia driver
>> in your series should work. If not, back up a version and try it. If
>> it doesn't work just keep backing up until one works.
>>
>> You may be able to search the nvidia website to fine the correct drivers
>> for your model but I don't know if they have one for kernel version.
>> Just think of it this way, the older the kernel then the older the
>> driver version. The newer the kernel, the newer the driver should be.
>>
>> All that said, I think this is yours:
>>
>> http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_71.86.11.html
>>
>> If not, try this:
>>
>> http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
>>
>> Like me, you have to select legacy in the first menu.
>>
>> I would try nvidia-drivers-71.86.11 first and if that doesn't work, try
>> nvidia-drivers-71.86.09 next. Once you get a working driver, mask the
>> others so it will stick to it until you upgrade your kernel and start
>> this process over again.
>>
>> Hope that helps.
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-) :-)
>>
>>
>
> Decided to sidestep the issue - the nv driver works fine (no multimedia
> etc needed). This was to be a temporary desktop while waiting for parts
> for a dead HD in the laptop, but I found it (much) faster to add x, oo
> etc to a core2 duo server instead of trying to bring the old machine up
> to date. Will still complete it as you cant have too many backup
> systems ... as my luck of late has proved :(
>
> BillK
>
>
Well at least you have links for next time. lol
Dale
:-) :-)
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