Re: NVIDIA TNT2 woes

From: Alex Zbyslaw (xfb52_at_dial.pipex.com)
Date: 06/30/05

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    Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 14:01:58 +0100
To: "Anthony M. Agelastos" <iqgrande@gmail.com>

    Anthony M. Agelastos wrote:

    >
    > 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. [...]
    >>
    >>> (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).

    As far as I understand, the *only* people who can make that driver
    exists again are NVidia. I suggest you contact them and ask why they
    removed support for your graphics card. I don't expect that they will
    care or do anything, but they certainly won't if you don't tell them.

    --Alex

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