On 3/22/07, Predrag Ivanovic <predivan@ptt.yu> wrote:
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:50:29 -0500 Chris Pemberton wrote:
Hello, Hi. There are two nVidia drivers available at the nVidia website: one version is for "newer" cards and the second is for "legacy" cards. In my case, my GeForce 3 Ti200 is considered "legacy".
There are two legacy drivers ( 1.0-71xx, 1.0-96xx), and latest one (1.0-97xx), which is in opt.
In Crux 2.2, I always manually downloaded the latest LEGACY driver and installed it manually. This worked every time.
You could rename opt/nvidia port to nvidia-legacy, modify it (changing version is all that you need to do, iirc), and install that way.That's what I do for my graphics card (GF4 MX440, driver 1.0-9631) Altough 71xx driver could need patching to compile with newer kernels, as you discovered :)
Pedja -- Was it worth it? Yes. Would I do it again? No. -- Ken Thompson
I was not aware of a legacy driver newer than 1.0.7184. Anyhow; I did google for version 1.0.9631, found it and it installed clean and easy. Knowing this could have saved me many hours of grief last night. Thanks for the tip. I wonder why nVidia's driver download page only lists version 7184? Now I'm off to find out why Crux 2.3 does not include xdm for starting X. Not sure if this is a Crux 2.3 issue or a new xorg issue?