[ATrpms-users] Nvidia Legacy

[Fedor Pikus]

On 1/1/07, Paulo Cavalcanti <promac at gmail.com> wrote:
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>
> On 1/1/07, Fedor Pikus <fpikus at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 1/1/07, Paulo Cavalcanti <promac at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > On 1/1/07, Fedor Pikus <fpikus at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > I took the group's advice and upgraded one of my FC4 systems to FC6
> > > > using DVD and then smart. Most of the packages eventually upgraded,
> > > > but few problems remain.
> > > >
> > > > The worst one is the NVidia drivers. The system has an old card
> > > > supported by Legacy drivers. No problem, ATRpms has nvidia-legacy RPM.
> > > > Which depends on nvidia-graphics7184. Which needs a kmdl package.
> > > > Which does not exist for any of FC6 kernels.
> > >
> > > The 8776 kmdls are still here:
> > >
> > > http://dl.atrpms.net/fc6-i386/atrpms/stable/
> >
> > Thanks, they seem to work even though they are not "legacy". The error
> > message from trying to install the latest NVIDIA module implies that
> > there is a separate line of "legacy" drivers, which is why I went
> > after "nvidia-legacy".
>
> Series 97xx does not work for GForce 4 and below. They say to use 96xx,
> instead. I think this is what they call legacy now.
>
> > >
> > > For the 7184, it is just a question of recreating the kmdls you need.
> Are
> > > you using a TNT2?
> >
> > Yes. Still, it seems like nvidia-legacy in ATRPMS-FC6 cannot be
> > installed in any configuration at the moment, perhaps it should be
> > removed to avoid confusion?
>
> I do not know. I have never used them.
>
> > >
> > > > In general, seems like not all repositories caught up with FC6. After
> > > > several packages did not upgrade, I did a search on pbone.net and
> > > > found that acroread, xosview, and alsaplayer exist in various
> > > > repositories which haven't moved to FC6 yet. Seems like there is a
> > > > "timing gap" where some repositories are dropping support for FC4 and
> > > > older and other are not moving beyond FC4 or FC5.
> > >
> > >
> > > The fix for acroread is simple. I posted it sometime ago, when FC6 was
> > > released.
> >
> > Found it, thanks. I didn't even get to that, there are no acroread
> > RPMs for FC6 as far as I could find. I can install from Adobe's
> > installer, sure, but I liked being aboe to fetch it with apt or smart
> > along with other packages.
>
> I use the rpm (generic) from Adobe site:
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> http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/7x/7.0.8/enu/AdobeReader_enu-7.0.8-1.i386.rpm
>
> Dag has another one I have never tried:
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> http://dag.wieers.com/packages/acroread/acroread-7.0.8-1.rf.nosrc.rpm
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> But you have to apply the fix after installing it.
>
>
> > > Alsaplayer is completely deprecated, as far as I know.
> > >
> > > The only problems I had with FC6 until now stems from xorg 7.1
> > > But if it works for you, then you asre all set.
> >
> > Works so far. But I haven't tried to restore support for my Wacom
> > tablet yet, after the upgrade even udev rules don't work anymore.
> >
> >
>
> Then your problems should be over, hopefully.

At least close. I hacked xosview into submission, now all I have to do
is set up the Wacom tablet.

> --
>
> Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
> LCG - UFRJ


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