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Orosius

Member

Registered: 2008-12-06

Posts: 13

nvidia-71xx no longer in repositories??

Hi,

I have an old computer with a nvidia riva TNT2 video card in it.
After reading the README at
http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/L … dix-a.html
I believe I need the nvidia-71xx driver for this video card to work.
(I read about this package somewhere on this wiki)
When I type "pacman -Ss nvidia" however, this package does not appear
among the matching packages.
The same goes when I do a package search for "nvidia" on the archlinux
webpage.

My guess is that my video card is no longer supported in the current
kernel, or am I missing something?

I'm sorry if this is a dumb question, I'm just so used to archlinux
working without a glitch

pew

Member

Registered: 2008-09-03

Posts: 10

Re: nvidia-71xx no longer in repositories??

Read the news. ;-)
http://www.archlinux.org/news/424/

Orosius

Member

Registered: 2008-12-06

Posts: 13

Re: nvidia-71xx no longer in repositories??

Thanks a lot for the quick reply!

I already fixed the problem, though, by typing the magical
commands:
pacman -S xorg
and
hwd -x

I guess I'll add nvidia to my list of 'corporations that suck' now