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loserveg

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From: Pittsburgh, Pa

Registered: 2006-12-22

Posts: 45

nvidia geforce fx5200 agp

hello,

i really want to use arch linux, i love everything about it, except that i can't get my fx5200 to work. ive checked nvidia.com to see if maybe its been moved to legacy support, but it hasn't.  I have the newest driver working on my slackware partition so why not here? i'm starting to wonder if the kernel isn't recognizing that its agp and not pci-e but i dont know, im not exactly the biggest hardware buff.

heres what i have:

pacman -Q kernel26
kernel26 2.6.20.1-1

pacman -Q nvidia  
nvidia 1.0.9746-1

pacman -Q nvidia-utils
nvidia-utils 1.0.9746-2

i can't think of anything else relevant to this, i guess let me know if there is.

thanks

iBertus

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From: Greenville, NC

Registered: 2004-11-04

Posts: 2,228

Re: nvidia geforce fx5200 agp

I'm just assuming that you've already got everything configured properly for Xorg? Could you possibly post your xorg.conf and error log?

Grimn

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Registered: 2006-12-23

Posts: 136

Re: nvidia geforce fx5200 agp

What's your problem? When X starts you get blank screen and nothing happens? Because I'm also having problems with the new drivers of nvidia and my card is in the same series as yours although it's a 5700.
Please check if it's related http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/6253

fantomas

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Registered: 2007-02-23

Posts: 14

Re: nvidia geforce fx5200 agp

I have MSI GeForce FX5200, works perfectly with nvidia-legacy driver and 2.6.19-ARCH kernel
direct renedering, beryl works fine, maybe its in xorg configuration, download my xorg.conf
and modify monitor freqency

http://data2.edisk.cz/stahni/56687/xorg.conf_5.32kB.html

Last edited by fantomas (2007-02-23 09:49:01)

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: nvidia geforce fx5200 agp

http://www.archlinux.org/news/291/

You need 'nvidia-96xx'.

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fantomas

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Registered: 2007-02-23

Posts: 14

Re: nvidia geforce fx5200 agp

works both with nvidia-legacy, nvidia-96xx

smoon

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Registered: 2005-08-22

Posts: 468

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Re: nvidia geforce fx5200 agp

http://www.archlinux.org/news/291/

You need 'nvidia-96xx'.

According to the compatibility list in /usr/share/doc/nvidia/supported-cards.txt the GeForce FX 5200 is still supported by nvidia-1.0.9746.

vacant

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From: downstairs

Registered: 2004-11-05

Posts: 816

Re: nvidia geforce fx5200 agp

According to the compatibility list ... the GeForce FX 5200 is still supported by nvidia-1.0.9746.

Yes, I'm reading this with an FX5200, Glxgears: 1440fps 24 bit colour.

amdviaman

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From: Panama City, Florida

Registered: 2005-04-15

Posts: 28

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Re: nvidia geforce fx5200 agp

I also have the fx5200 working with the latest everything. The newer Nvidia packages come with a tool to configure xorg.conf, it is called nvidia-xconfig, you must run it as root. Note that sometimes nvidia-xconfig saves the new xorg.conf to your home directory, so copy it to /etc/X11 if so.

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