Greetings: I'm planning my first crux install this weekend. The box I will be using has an nvidia geforce 6150se card. From past experience, this card will not play nice with nouveau (screen freeze). This card requires the 304.xx legacy driver. I've searched the ports and don't see the legacy driver as being available. (Sorry, but I haven't figured out how to search the mailing list archives yet.) I have also googled a bit, but am not finding a resolution there either. Does anyone have a workaround so I can either (1) make use of nouveau (preferable), or (2) find a usable tar.*z version of the legacy driver? Thanks for your help.
On 18.04.2014 14:35, Dutch Ingraham wrote:
Greetings:
I'm planning my first crux install this weekend. The box I will be using has an nvidia geforce 6150se card. From past experience, this card will not play nice with nouveau (screen freeze). This card requires the 304.xx legacy driver.
We have a history of ports updates kept by git(web) at http://crux.nu/gitweb. Using this I found the last 304.xx commit for the nvidia (not noveau!) driver in opt: http://crux.nu/gitweb/?p=ports/opt.git;a=commit;h=a84e9030f70e18f558610deaf6... You can check out the three files and create your own legacy package.
I've searched the ports and don't see the legacy driver as being available. (Sorry, but I haven't figured out how to search the mailing list archives yet.) I have also googled a bit, but am not finding a resolution there either.
gmane has a search function. http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.crux.general
Thanks for your help.
You're welcome regards, Thomas
On 04/18/2014 10:19 AM, Thomas Penteker wrote:
On 18.04.2014 14:35, Dutch Ingraham wrote:
Greetings:
I'm planning my first crux install this weekend. The box I will be using has an nvidia geforce 6150se card. From past experience, this card will not play nice with nouveau (screen freeze). This card requires the 304.xx legacy driver.
We have a history of ports updates kept by git(web) at http://crux.nu/gitweb. Using this I found the last 304.xx commit for the nvidia (not noveau!) driver in opt:
http://crux.nu/gitweb/?p=ports/opt.git;a=commit;h=a84e9030f70e18f558610deaf6...
You can check out the three files and create your own legacy package.
I've searched the ports and don't see the legacy driver as being available. (Sorry, but I haven't figured out how to search the mailing list archives yet.) I have also googled a bit, but am not finding a resolution there either.
gmane has a search function. http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.crux.general
Thanks for your help.
You're welcome
regards, Thomas
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Excellent! Thanks for your response.
If you prefer nouveau you can use that without even messing with the nvidia binary drivers. It's available as 'xorg-xf86-video-nouveau' in the 'xorg' ports repository. Matt
On 4/19/2014 21:01, Matt Housh wrote:
If you prefer nouveau you can use that without even messing with the nvidia binary drivers. It's available as 'xorg-xf86-video-nouveau' in the 'xorg' ports repository.
To clarify, I realize you said that you experienced problems with nouveau and this card in the past, was just trying to illustrate that if you go that route it's not tied in any way to the nvidia binary drivers. Matt
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