Nvidia-legacy 7174? why?

CyberTron · 2005-07-09 12:40:41

Hi!

Just saw that on the front page, there are a new package called Nvidia-legacy-7174, what is this? noone is maintaining it, and it isn't the latest nvidia driver, so what is it?

is it just to provide a way for people having trouble with the latest nvidia driver?

i3839 · 2005-07-09 13:15:00

Newest nvidia binary drivers don't support older cards, quote form the readme:

Below are the legacy GPUs that are no longer supported in the unified driver.
These GPUs will continue to be maintained through the special legacy NVIDIA
GPU driver releases.


    NVIDIA chip name                   Device PCI ID
    -------------------------------    -------------------------------
    RIVA TNT                           0x0020
    RIVA TNT2/TNT2 Pro                 0x0028
    RIVA TNT2 Ultra                    0x0029
    Vanta/Vanta LT                     0x002C
    RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro    0x002D
    Aladdin TNT2                       0x00A0
    GeForce 256                        0x0100
    GeForce DDR                        0x0101
    Quadro                             0x0103
    GeForce2 GTS/GeForce2 Pro          0x0150
    GeForce2 Ti                        0x0151
    GeForce2 Ultra                     0x0152
    Quadro2 Pro                        0x0153

CyberTron · 2005-07-09 14:35:41

ahh, ok, then I understand thanks

sepht · 2005-07-09 18:15:05

Sweet this package is up? I need to get it!

Pierre · 2005-07-10 07:39:44

I have tested it with a TNT-Card. It does not install. (sorry, no further debug output or log)

tpowa · 2005-07-10 12:04:35

sorry i can't test the package my cards belong to the newer ones.
if install.log would give some output perhaps we could do something
thanks.
greetings
tpowa

Pierre · 2005-07-10 12:45:49

Everything I get after "pacman -S nvidia-legacy" in runlevel 3 is: (package nvidia was removed before)

:: nvidia-legacy-1.0.7174-1: is up to date.  Upgrade anyway? [Y/n]
Targets: nvidia-legacy-1.0.7174-1

Total Package Size:   5.3 MB

Proceed with upgrade? [Y/n]
checking package integrity... done.
loading package data... done.
checking for file conflicts... done.
upgrading nvidia-legacy... done.
IMPORTANT
==> In order to use the software, you have to agree to NVIDIA's license located in
==> /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/LICENSE else please remove this package
Installation starts now ...
INSTALLATION FAILED!
==> You have to shutdown Xserver to finish installation! You have to rerun 'pacman -S nvidia'
==> Other installation errors can be found at: /var/log/nvidia-installer.log
If you need more information about setting up nvidia drivers have a look at:
"http://wiki2.archlinux.org/index.php/How to install NVIDIA Driver"

/var/log/nvidia-installer.log does not exists. "pacman -R nvidia-legacy" also fails on not finding nvidia-installer

tpowa · 2005-07-10 12:47:28

ah ok thanks i'll look into it

tpowa · 2005-07-10 13:02:15

ok uploaded -2 there was a new install option in .install file that doesn't exist in old driver

tpowa · 2005-07-10 15:04:23

please report success if it works

Pierre · 2005-07-10 15:09:48

Installation worksnow, but driver gives me strange output on console. But this is not your fault ;-)

sud_crow · 2005-07-10 16:05:47

Well, im officially on a legacy video card now... I guess it was about time...

But there is something i dont understand:

If im using nvidia 1.0.7667-2
Why is the first legacy driver older than this one? Mine is working just fine, is there any reason to "downgrade"?

Regards.

tpowa · 2005-07-10 16:07:54

an official legacy driver is not! out, it just a intermediate release from my side, that supports old cards.

murpheus40 · 2006-02-03 14:39:48

Hi

I have a GeForce2 MX/400. Is it a legacy card too?
Tx

lucke · 2006-02-03 15:58:59

No, it uses 'normal' nvidia drivers.

jaboua · 2006-02-04 12:01:58

sud_crow wrote:

If im using nvidia 1.0.7667-2
Why is the first legacy driver older than this one? Mine is working just fine, is there any reason to "downgrade"?

Maybe your card is "legacy" only in the 8XXX drivers (1.0.8178-8 is the newest according to pacman)?

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Nvidia-legacy 7174? why?

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