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grndrush

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From: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Registered: 2003-12-28

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Kernel26-2.6.25 and nvidia-96xx still not working (i686) [Solved...]

I'm still (apparently) having the same problem others did when they upgraded to 2.6.25 with Nvidia video cards, but I have an old GeForce2 MX/400 which uses the nvidia-96xx branch; nvidia-96xx-96.43.05-2 works with kernel26-2.6.24.4-1; nvidia-96xx-96.43.05-4 does NOT work with either kernel26-2.6.25.4-1 or kernel26-2.6.25.6-1.

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Last edited by grndrush (2008-07-30 16:41:10)

jacko

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Registered: 2007-11-23

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Re: Kernel26-2.6.25 and nvidia-96xx still not working (i686) [Solved...]

Any assistance would be appreciated.

what assistance do you want? u haven't even asked a question, just stated a complaint from all I can see.

grndrush

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From: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Registered: 2003-12-28

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Re: Kernel26-2.6.25 and nvidia-96xx still not working (i686) [Solved...]

So now pointing out that a supposedly-fixed bug isn't, is *complaining*? LMAO. OK. As to what assistance I "want", well, I know my way around here better than that. I retract and apologize for asking for assistance; for the most part I gave up on getting help here years ago. I was mainly pointing out that it was still broken in case someone took an interest or ran into the same problem.

As noted at http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=110088 (amoung numerous other places), the NVidia binary drivers NEVER worked (via a standard "pacman -S nvidia-96xx...", anyway) under the 2.6.25 kernel.

I have verified that the 2.6.26-2 kernel that WAS in testing (it appears to have now hit the main repos), along with the NVidia 96.43.07-4 drivers (96.43.07-1 utils) work beautifully (on legacy cards). At least to this point. From my research, all NVidia cards should work with the current kernel and drivers.