[Mageia-dev] [RFC] update / change driver for nvidia-96xx supported card on Mageia 1

Florian Hubold doktor5000 at arcor.de
Tue Sep 27 21:43:47 CEST 2011


Hello,

currently on Mageia 1 there is no support with the proprietary nvidia-96xx
drivers, as the older version on Mageia 1 has no support fo X.Org xserver 1.10.
This has just recently been added with nvidia-96xx-96.43.20 which was
updated for cauldron.

So currently the default driver for GeForce 2 MX to GeForce 4 is nouveau,
and no support in ldetect-lst for nvidia-96xx. And as there are at least
as many problems with Nouveau as there are reports about missing
nvidia-96xx support, i figured it would be good to push an nvidia-96xx
update to Mageia 1.

IIUC also nvidia-96xx is the fallback driver for GeForce 6100 to GeForce 360
cards on systems with no cpu support for SSE instruction set, but as stated
above this can't work currently as it has no support for our current xserver
in Mageia 1. Maybe another reason for an update.


Please don't hesitate to give your valued comments.





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