[ATrpms-users] Nvidia driver, 5200 card, kernel 2.6.26.6-79.fc9.i686

[Paulo Cavalcanti]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 6:51 AM, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at atrpms.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:37:32PM -0400, Russell Brown wrote:
> > I cannot get the nvidia driver working for my
> > nvidia 5200 card.
>
> Check out the descriptions of the drivers at
>
> http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html
>
> You will find three legacy series. If you click yourself thorugh, you
> will find a list of cards ech driver support. Once you know the series
> just install these drivers (if available). Unfortunately the legacy
> drivers sometimes do not build on the latest kernels and updates are
> less frequent than for the latest driver by nvidia.
>
> But first find out which series you need, and we can pick up from there.
> --
>


I have some 5200 and 5700 cards, and the 173 driver work for them, but not
the 177.

173 seems to be  the legacy driver for the 5000 series.

Try reading /var/log/Xorg.0.log to see the cause of the failure.


-- 
Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ
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