Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (286 mails)

[Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 05:15:25PM -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> Stephen (or other nvidia legacy expert),
>
> I've got an old nvidia TNT card I was having an issue with so I
> thought I'd try the old legacy nvidia driver with it.
>
> But the oldest nvidia driver is not in the repo.
>
> ie.   x11-video-nvidiaG02 and x11-video-nvidiaG01 are both there for
> 11.3, but  x11-video-nvidia is not.

x11-video-nvidia (96.43.xx) has not been adjusted yet for xorg-server 1.8 used
on openSUSE 11.3. But NVIDIA still plans to do so.

> I assume that's intentional and that the older legacy driver is no
> longer compatible with a recent kernel?
>
> fyi: I tried to download the source and compile it.  That worked, but
> when I tried startx, I got an error
>
> dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so: undefined symbol:
> AllocateScreenPrivateIndex
>
> I found numerous references to that on the web, but no obvious solutions.

NVIDIA does not plan to adjust also 71.86.xx for xorg-server 1.8. But with TNT
you rely on that one. So only choice on openSUSE 11.3 is using nouveau, nv,
fbdev or vesa driver. nouveau should be the default.

Thanks,
Stefan

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