On Oct 21, 06 05:27:05 +0100, Dave Howorth wrote:
On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 15:11 +0200, Matthias Hopf wrote:
I assume that we do not support the 6200 for SL9.3 ourself, as the hardware is pretty new, and 9.3 pretty old. That's why probably there hasn't been an updated driver for 9.3 with working support for the 6200.
I was curious about this, because I'm not good with dates. According to nvidia's press release <http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_16247.html> 6200 boards were available November 2004. I can't immediately find a date for SUSE 9.3 but my copy of the admin manual says 2005. So I don't understand why you call 9.3 old and the 6200 new? Of perhaps more
9.3 is old for us, because there are 2 new versions inbetween :-) There is only a single version (7xxx) inbetween on the hardware side, and hardware doesn't age as fast as software. Well, I guess, it's some point of view. But there are 6200 cards that are much newer than 2004, the chipset revisions changed in the meantime.
concern, if I'd bought SLES or SLED instead of Pro, does that mean I wouldn't be able to replace a failed graphics card with a current model within the extended support period?
For SLED AFAIK we have a working update path with service packs, including feature updates. We don't have that for the consumer products (and we don't need that, because the versions come out much more frequently). I'm not saying that the 6200 doesn't work with SL9.3. I just remember that there have been issues with the nv driver and newer 6200 chips, I don't remember whether this was 9.3 or an earlier release. The binary only driver works. Though, again, I don't know whether the driver released with 9.3 will work or not.
I also looked at the SUSE hardware compatibility list. It says there are
Where from?
three types of 6200. All are AGP !? One is apparently my specific model
AFAIR: 0x00F3 (GeForce 6200) is AGP 0x0146 (GeForce Go 6600 TE/6200 TE), 0x014F (GeForce 6200) are PCIe. AFAIR all 0x00F* chips are the IDs of the AGP converter chips. 6xxx is natively PCIe.
(0x0221). All are stated to have FULL support in 9.3 amd64, but the one that seems to match my configuration most exactly is NOT supported in 10.1.
I cannot find 0x0221 in NVIDIA's README.txt at all. I think I remember there has been the issue that NVIDIA forgot one of the devices in the README, which in turn doesn't have sax2 detect the driver automatically... The driver itself worked, however.
So that seems a good reason to run 9.3! But why am I running 9.3? Start from the premise that I want to minimise maintenance effort - I moved to SUSE from Debian for that reason, as well as others. So I have to have a positive need to upgrade, which I haven't found yet. Plus, from what I
Then don't do it. You may have to install the NVIDIA driver yourself, but that isn't rocket science. You would have to do that on windows as well.
can see on this list, 10.1 is not a release that is likely to reduce the effort I have to spend on maintenance. My perception is that it's likely to take more time and be more difficult to manage.
Depending on what you want to do, this could well be.
If I understand it though, this creates more work doesn't it? Every time
Not too much. You have to reinstall the driver (read: compile/install the kernel module) if you download an updated kernel. This doesn't happen too often.
monitor nvidia to see if they release a new version of the driver, which I'll have to update manually. I believe there is a new version with security implications in beta now, for example. I'd much rather have that automatically sorted out by YOU.
In this particular case, the security issue is only something for 10.1 and up. We didn't have any other issues. That's why you probably won't see any driver updates at all. That's why the driver *might* be too old for a newer card.
Again, the SUSE CDB says it is supported.
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