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Greenstuff

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From: Israel

Registered: 2009-06-30

Posts: 64

Getting NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 to work?

Hi,
i'm trying to get my video card to work correctly. It seems to be:
NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro GPU

I checked in Xorg's logs and it seems it wants a driver called nvidia-71xx. I checked in the repositories and it doesn't seem to be there. I found a package on the Nvidia site but it asks me to compile a custom kernel or something like that. Anybody knows what's the proper way to make this card works? The Nvidia packages on the site didn't seem to work on it, they are all too new, even the old one.

EDIT: Saw the post about the new package and installed it. I now get a bunch of lines on screen but no image.

Last edited by Greenstuff (2009-07-14 22:48:22)

sand_man

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-06-10

Posts: 2,164

Re: Getting NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 to work?

nvidia-96xx is in the repos. I'm not sure if that will work or not but it's worth a try.
Otherwise you might have to try the open source driver.

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Greenstuff

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From: Israel

Registered: 2009-06-30

Posts: 64

Re: Getting NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 to work?

96xx doesn't seem to work

EDIT:
When installing xf86-video-nv and removing thr other drivers I lose the nvidia driver and no new 'nv' driver's added. hwdetect can't detect any video modulus.

Last edited by Greenstuff (2009-07-15 00:04:06)

Cdh

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Registered: 2009-02-03

Posts: 1,098

Re: Getting NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 to work?

As far as I know you would need the 71.XXX series of the driver. Unfortunately nvidia did not update it for use with xorg >1.5.

Check out this thread:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=122436

There is a small chance that we may add support in the future, but there currently are no plans to do so, as Aaron said.

What do you mean with "and no new 'nv' driver's added"? What das X -configure say which drivers are available?

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djszapi

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From: Cambridge, United Kingdom

Registered: 2009-06-14

Posts: 1,439

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Re: Getting NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 to work?

I've got the same nvidia-card at the company! I didn't use it with the 71.XXX series, but this is driver was written for this card, 6 years ago..

Then i've changed to another card. It's not sure it's worth to hack a thousand year old cards in 2009

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