On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@suse.de> 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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org