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spookyh

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From: Italy

Registered: 2007-01-06

Posts: 7

nvidia-96xx

Does anybody knows why nvidia-96xx is not (anymore) included in extra?
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-disp … river.html
ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/96.43.18/

96.43.18 is fully compatible (and certified) with xorg 1.8

Last edited by spookyh (2010-08-18 14:32:19)

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karol

Archivist

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: nvidia-96xx

Please fix the typo in the title -'nvidia-96xx', not 'nividia-96xx'.

You can get some older versions from http://arm.kh.nu/search/index.php?a=32& … ommunity=1
96.43.18 is in AUR
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39006
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39005

spookyh

Member

From: Italy

Registered: 2007-01-06

Posts: 7

Re: nvidia-96xx

Older versions have problems with xorg 1.8
The packages in AUR sound me familiar :-)
It would be nice to have an official package.

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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: nvidia-96xx

Older versions have problems with xorg 1.8
The packages in AUR sound me familiar :-)
It would be nice to have an official package.

Opps, I should have checked the AUR account of spooky - the e-mail address doesn't leave any doubts, sorry about that :-)

I suggest you ping the mailing list if you haven't done so already. The maintainers don't always check the forums.

spookyh

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From: Italy

Registered: 2007-01-06

Posts: 7

Re: nvidia-96xx

Thanks, I will join the mailing-list.

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Inxsible

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

Posts: 9,183

Re: nvidia-96xx

I just tried to do an update on my machine and it told me that nvidia-96xx requires kernel26<2.6.35. I think that was the reason why it was removed from the official repos as 2.6.35 is now in core.

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spookyh

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From: Italy

Registered: 2007-01-06

Posts: 7

Re: nvidia-96xx

I don't think so.
kernel 2.6.35.x is in core since yesterday, nvidia-96xx has been removed from extra in June-July.
I'll update the AUR packages in few minutes.

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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: nvidia-96xx

I don't think so.
kernel 2.6.35.x is in core since yesterday, nvidia-96xx has been removed from extra in June-July.
I'll update the AUR packages in few minutes.

http://www.archlinux.org/news/502/
173xx is in the repos.

Xabre

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2009-03-19

Posts: 757

Re: nvidia-96xx

I just tried to do an update on my machine and it told me that nvidia-96xx requires kernel26<2.6.35. I think that was the reason why it was removed from the official repos as 2.6.35 is now in core.

Every third-party driver in repoes depends on exact version of kernel, as it needs to be recompiled for every new major kernel realease. (ls /lib/modules should explain more)
It's quite a standard procedure, I'm surprised you haven't noticed that yet...

Last edited by Xabre (2010-08-19 11:38:47)