[opensuse-factory] legacy nvidia cards and the 11.3 nvidia repo
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. 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. Thanks Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
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 Public Key available ------------------------------------------------------ Stefan Dirsch (Res. & Dev.) SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Tel: 0911-740 53 0 Maxfeldstraße 5 FAX: 0911-740 53 479 D-90409 Nürnberg http://www.suse.de Germany ----------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) ----------------------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Stefan Dirsch
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
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