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Ruckus

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Registered: 2007-02-17

Posts: 204

nvidia-legacy driver

I have a GeForce2 MX/MX 400, and when trying to use the normal nvidia driver, i get an error saying that my card was not supported, and that i needed to use the legacy driver.
Yet when I do what http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/How … DIA_driver, it cant find the package. (it found the normal nvidia package fine).

[root@gcomp george]# pacman -S nvidia-legacy
nvidia-legacy: not found in sync db

I also tried installing via nvidia.com, but i could not get it to build the kernel module right.

So is the package not supported any longer, and the wiki page just needs to be updated?

amunimanghi

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Registered: 2006-11-21

Posts: 78

Re: nvidia-legacy driver

I think its called nvidia-96xx

#pacman -S nvidia-96xx

Ruckus

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Registered: 2007-02-17

Posts: 204

Re: nvidia-legacy driver

I think its called nvidia-96xx

#pacman -S nvidia-96xx

Ye it is, thank you Installing it now.

amunimanghi

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Registered: 2006-11-21

Posts: 78

Re: nvidia-legacy driver

No problem ;-)

Cotton

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From: Cornwall, UK

Registered: 2004-09-17

Posts: 568

Re: nvidia-legacy driver

nvidia-96xx won't work, it's for cards more modern than yours.

If you use the search box on the Arch home page (or use pacman -Ss nvidia), you can view all the available nvidia packages.

Its also worth keeping an eye on the front page news, or newsletter, see  "New Nvidia packages"

nvidia-legacy recently changed to nvidia-71xx

Ruckus

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Registered: 2007-02-17

Posts: 204

Re: nvidia-legacy driver

nvidia-96xx won't work, it's for cards more modern than yours.

If you use the search box on the Arch home page (or use pacman -Ss nvidia), you can view all the available nvidia packages.

Its also worth keeping an eye on the front page news, or newsletter, see  "New Nvidia packages"

nvidia-legacy recently changed to nvidia-71xx

nvidia-96xx worked just fine.

Cotton

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From: Cornwall, UK

Registered: 2004-09-17

Posts: 568

Re: nvidia-legacy driver

Sorry, I was wrong.

For the record, the current driver/chipset cross reference is here.

crashbox

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Registered: 2006-09-29

Posts: 26

Re: nvidia-legacy driver

ok here is my issue, i just setup my friends pc to dual boot xp and arch to get him to cross over one day, he has a geforce 3 ti 200 card, when using the 96xx nvidia drivers his colors are all messed up, the same thing happens when using pclinuxos, but the card does work normally with the vesa drivers working on both distros and it works just fine under windows. anyone have any suggestions

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amunimanghi

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Registered: 2006-11-21

Posts: 78

Re: nvidia-legacy driver

I'de try the nvidia-71xx.

crashbox

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Registered: 2006-09-29

Posts: 26

Re: nvidia-legacy driver

cant use the 71xx drivers because my card is not supported by 71xx any other suggestions

Oh and the irc channel is no help at all

Last edited by crashbox (2007-02-19 00:46:03)

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amunimanghi

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Registered: 2006-11-21

Posts: 78

Re: nvidia-legacy driver

To tell you the truth, I don't know. Sorry =/

McQueen

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From: Arizona

Registered: 2006-03-20

Posts: 387

Re: nvidia-legacy driver

...he has a geforce 3 ti 200 card, when using the 96xx nvidia drivers his colors are all messed up...

Their card is supported by the 1.0-96xx driver so the nvidia-96xx pkg is correct. It being just a color issue, be sure to install the nvidia-96xx-utils package as well and then run then nvidia-settings program to adjust things to their liking. It will present a GUI to make the applicable adjustments and then save the config in the home directory. This can then be reset upon each login by an autostart command. For more information just read the man page.

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Ruckus

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Registered: 2007-02-17

Posts: 204

Re: nvidia-legacy driver

...he has a geforce 3 ti 200 card, when using the 96xx nvidia drivers his colors are all messed up...

Their card is supported by the 1.0-96xx driver so the nvidia-96xx pkg is correct. It being just a color issue, be sure to install the nvidia-96xx-utils package as well and then run then nvidia-settings program to adjust things to their liking. It will present a GUI to make the applicable adjustments and then save the config in the home directory. This can then be reset upon each login by an autostart command. For more information just read the man page.

Also, check to be sure the display depth is set right in your xorg.conf

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Last edited by Ruckus (2007-02-19 21:02:01)

Basu

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Re: nvidia-legacy driver

Hey Ruckus, my Geforce 2 gives random system lockups no matter which driver i use. Do you use any special options?

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Ruckus

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Registered: 2007-02-17

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Re: nvidia-legacy driver

Hey Ruckus, my Geforce 2 gives random system lockups no matter which driver i use. Do you use any special options?

No, Are you sure its your graphics card causing the lockups?

Cotton

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From: Cornwall, UK

Registered: 2004-09-17

Posts: 568

Re: nvidia-legacy driver

Hey Ruckus, my Geforce 2 gives random system lockups no matter which driver i use. Do you use any special options?

Do you get lockups using the Vesa driver?  If so, its time to suspect a hardware fault.