Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (286 mails)

[Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

I had no luck with nouveau, but nv is working.

Thanks
Greg
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