Arch Linux

Varakh

Member

Registered: 2010-06-04

Posts: 10

nvidia gts250 hdmi

-

Last edited by Varakh (2025-03-15 13:05:25)

Zariel

Member

Registered: 2008-10-07

Posts: 446

Re: nvidia gts250 hdmi

Tried this ? http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=97936

Varakh

Member

Registered: 2010-06-04

Posts: 10

Re: nvidia gts250 hdmi

-

Last edited by Varakh (2025-03-15 13:05:18)

brisbin33

Member

From: boston, ma

Registered: 2008-07-24

Posts: 1,799

Website

Re: nvidia gts250 hdmi

hmmm, built fine here.  do you have kernel26-headers installed? might be needed. if so i can add the dep to the pkgbuild.

hopefully allan won't yell at me for not building in a clean chroot

also, kernel 34 has these drivers already, that's why i haven't testing installing this package. seeing as the kernel's already in [testing] i'm just going to wait it out.

Last edited by brisbin33 (2010-06-04 18:20:43)

---

//github/

Varakh

Member

Registered: 2010-06-04

Posts: 10

Re: nvidia gts250 hdmi

-

Last edited by Varakh (2025-03-15 13:05:06)

brisbin33

Member

From: boston, ma

Registered: 2008-07-24

Posts: 1,799

Website

Re: nvidia gts250 hdmi

the version of alsa-utils doesn't matter; that's not the driver, just the utils.

you can find your current driver version by the following command:

cat /usr/src/linux-$(uname -r)/include/sound/version.h 
/* include/version.h */
#define CONFIG_SND_VERSION "1.0.22.1"
#define CONFIG_SND_DATE ""

BUT i'm on .34 on this box (not my HTPC) and the above is my output... so now i'm confused...

in any event,  you either need to boot into a kernel that outputs 1.0.23 in the above (as i understand it), or get the update package working.  the XBMC forum and Alsa site say .34 comes with 1.0.23, but it appears my output contradicts that.

uname -r
2.6.34-ck

---

//github/

Varakh

Member

Registered: 2010-06-04

Posts: 10

Re: nvidia gts250 hdmi

-

Last edited by Varakh (2025-03-15 13:05:34)

brisbin33

Member

From: boston, ma

Registered: 2008-07-24

Posts: 1,799

Website

Re: nvidia gts250 hdmi

if you installed the package built by my PKGBUILD, that's supposed to be all that's required.  check alsamixer that you now an nvidia card with controllable outputs. unmute them and see.

i dunno what to tell you beyond that...

---

//github/

Varakh

Member

Registered: 2010-06-04

Posts: 10

Re: nvidia gts250 hdmi

-

Last edited by Varakh (2025-03-15 13:04:53)

brisbin33

Member

From: boston, ma

Registered: 2008-07-24

Posts: 1,799

Website

Re: nvidia gts250 hdmi

ok, first, let me repeat a few things:

1. I have not installed this package myself, i don't know how it's supposed to work. another user (on that other thread) manually upgraded their drivers and claims it worked. i simply wrote a PKGBUILD to do the installing of said drivers.

2. alsa-utils is not the drivers. your version of alsa-utils means nothing regarding what you're trying to get working.

version.h could indicate an incomplete install but it could also be a red herring. i'm not sure if installing the new drivers as you did would change the version as outputted by that file. it's a kernel source file and your kernel still did come with 1.0.21.

here is the guide that talks about getting this working.

i suggest you assume you've completed the "Getting ALSA" part and try to follow the rest of the guide.

---

//github/

Varakh

Member

Registered: 2010-06-04

Posts: 10

Re: nvidia gts250 hdmi

-

Last edited by Varakh (2025-03-15 13:04:24)

brisbin33

Member

From: boston, ma

Registered: 2008-07-24

Posts: 1,799

Website

Re: nvidia gts250 hdmi

I'm on GTS250 and this card is not in the list. Just any "Any GT210/GT220/GT240".

so far, the most generic promise of success has been the GT2xx thread. ould got a GT240 working and [vEX] got his GT210 working both by simply upgrading the drivers.

seems that "S" might be a problem.

---

//github/

Varakh

Member

Registered: 2010-06-04

Posts: 10

Re: nvidia gts250 hdmi

-

Last edited by Varakh (2025-03-15 13:04:15)

theapodan

Member

From: Virginia, USA

Registered: 2008-10-21

Posts: 116

Re: nvidia gts250 hdmi

I'm on GTS250 and this card is not in the list. Just any "Any GT210/GT220/GT240".

so far, the most generic promise of success has been the GT2xx thread. ould got a GT240 working and [vEX] got his GT210 working both by simply upgrading the drivers.

seems that "S" might be a problem.

The GTS250 is the same card as the older 9800GTX+, so information about the 9800GTX+ might be more useful than the other 200 series cards.

I hope that information might be useful, I have a GTS250, but haven't tried to use hdmi.

syre

Member

From: Denmark

Registered: 2009-08-04

Posts: 100

Re: nvidia gts250 hdmi

i'm having the exact same problem, did you find any solution?