Re: NVIDIA TNT2 woes
From: Anthony M. Agelastos (iqgrande_at_gmail.com)
Date: 06/30/05
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Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 06:10:01 -0400 To: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com>
On Jun 30, 2005, at 5:29 AM, Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
> markzero wrote:
>
>
>
>> Oh the joys of binary drivers.
>>
>> I awake from a peaceful slumber after a portupgrade to find that
>> I suddenly no longer have X. The playful and exciting words
>> dance across my colourless and tormented screen:
>>
>> (WW) The NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro GPU installed in
>> (WW) this system is supported through the NVIDIA Legacy
>> (WW) drivers. Please visit
>> (WW) http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for more
>> (WW) information. The 1.0-7667 NVIDIA driver will ignore this
>> (WW) GPU. Continuing probe... (EE) No devices detected.
>>
>> The NVIDIA Legacy drivers magically fail to exist on the NVIDIA
>> site and there appears no be no port for them either.
>>
>>
>>
> Can you use the x.org "nv" driver instead? I've never really
> figured out what the binary driver buys you over the standard one,
> but then all I do is run X with fvwm2, mainly for software
> development, so I have never needed any "fancy" features. (I've
> never had a TNT2, but I believe it's supported).
>
> Man nv says under supported cards:
>
> RIVA TNT2 NV5
>
I am having the same problem with a RIVA TNT card. Changing the
driver from nvidia to nv in /etc/X11/xorg.conf allows me to enter
X11. This is all unfortunate, however. These binary drivers provide
GLX extensions to X11 for NVIDIA cards (so I could type glxgears at
the prompt and have it actually do something). I hope this site
exists soon and someone makes a port for it; I enjoyed knowing that
if I needed to play an OpenGL game that wasn't too hardcore, I could
do it with this computer (I could actually play Quake 3 pretty well
with those drivers).
>
> Alternatively, can you just spring for a newer video card? (I
> know, that feels like giving in, but if you don't need the latest,
> fanciest thing then there should be something cheapish out there.
> Ge4 cards seem to be about £20, assuming *they* are supported by
> nvidia of course).
>
> Final alternative, downgrade your driver back to what you had. I
> believe there is a "portdowngrade" but have never used it. You can
> tell portugrade never to upgrade that port (see HOLD_PKGS or
> similar in /etc/pkgtools.conf) and probably keep a copy of the port
> directory and driver around "just in case".
>
> --Alex
>
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