[Mageia-discuss] Glitch with nvidia FX 5500 card driver
Maarten Vanraes
alien at rmail.be
Thu Jan 19 21:28:24 CET 2012
Op donderdag 19 januari 2012 15:17:39 schreef TJ:
> On 01/19/2012 06:37 AM, AL13N wrote:
> > [...]
> > this "new driver" what is it? is it, is it different from the one used
> > before?
>
> Sorry, I guess I wasn't as clear as I thought.
>
> The FX cards use a different nvidia driver than the 6000 series. When I
> first booted with the 6200, the "new" card, Mageia was still using the
> FX driver, the "old" driver. Using MCC, I had Mageia install the driver
> for the 6000 series, the "new" driver, but it didn't take effect until I
> did a reboot. So, when I began the restart process, Mageia was still
> using the FX driver("old") with the card, and the 6200 card acted as the
> FX card had. After the reboot Mageia was using the 6000 series
> driver("new"), and all worked as it should.
>
> Hope that clears things up. Again, I'm sorry if I was confusing.
>
> TJ
oic, so you think it's something that's fixed in nvidia-current, but nvidia-
legacy still has this problem?
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