[Mageia-discuss] Please help testing nvidia on Mageia 2 with older cards
blind Pete
0123peter at gmail.com
Sun Mar 24 09:41:54 CET 2013
Claire Robinson wrote:
> On 23/03/13 05:51, blind Pete wrote:
>> Claire Robinson wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> If you have any of the older nvidia cards listed here:
>>> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7902#c31
>>
>> Really old hardware: GF2 MX/MX 400
>>
>>> Could you please help by testing an update candidate for ldetect-lst and
>>> the two older drivers. Update ldetect-lst can be found in Core Updates
>>> Testing and the nvidia drivers are both in Nonfree Updates Testing.
>>>
>>> You will need to be able to update from the testing medias
>>>
>>
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Enabling_the_Testing_media#Enable_them_the_easy_way
>>>
>>> and then enable them only to update the packages listed on the bug
>>> report, it will probably ask you to update rpmdrake first which is safe
>>> to do (we've been using it in QA for a few months). When you've updated
>>> only the packages listed on the bug please disable the two Testing
>>> medias again.
>>>
>>> Please leave any comments on the bug report, include information on the
>>> graphics card installed and whether you tested with an x86_64 or i586
>>> installation.
>>>
>>> Many thanks
>>> Claire (MrsB)
>>
>> The bug report is old and closed. Sorry for the delay.
>>
>> GeForece 2 MX/MX 400, i586 system, Gnome in legacy mode.
>>
>> Mageia 2;
>> VESA OK,
>> Nouveau OK after "Enable Translucency (Composite extention)" unticked
>> nVidia 96xx OK after "Enable Translucency (Composite extention)"
>> unticked.
>>
>> Mageia 3;
>> VESA OK,
>> Nouveau OK after "Enable Translucency (Composite extention)" unticked
>> nVidia 96xx - not tested. Does it exist?
>>
>
> Thanks for testing anyway Pete, it's good know there are people still
> able to test these. If there are any further updates I'll ask again :)
>
> Claire
Neither M2 nor M3beta3 work "out of the box". Configuration is necessary.
With the live CDs adding xdriver=vesa to the kernel options works.
For the installed versions adding;
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Disabled"
EndSection
to /etc/X11/xorg.conf or unchecking the option in XFdrake works.
There is still a command with "drake" in its name.
A configuration necessity isn't really a bug for a released version (M2)
but it is for a not yet released version (M3). Should I open a bug
report about it?
Is there a 96xx driver for M3? If there is I'll test it, but I can't
find it.
--
blind Pete
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