Nvidia legacy

TchaTcha · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 9:50 pm Post subject: Nvidia legacy

Hello there,

I was using a gentoo for years when i decided to do an world upgrade (bad idea).
After all i had to format my pc and install gentoo again =D (super newba! but u can do it also, try emerge -C coreutils!... dont!).

Well my legacy nvidia card is not working anymore.

I have :
00:0b.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro] (rev 15)

Its an pci (not express) card.

I download the nvidia driver from nvidia.com but the glx is not revognized by the system.
i can only use xorg opengl. My "eselect opengl list" comando shows:
Available OpenGL implementations:
[1] xorg-x11 *

only!

Searchinga bit found this comment on gentoo-portage.com:

crazycat · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 10:23 pm Post subject:

Hello, i can't answer all of your questions, but have you tried xf86-video-nv driver? There's also this driver to check out.

TchaTcha · Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 11:30 am Post subject:

I can use no problem the "nv" driver and also the "nvidia" driver after installing proprietary driver from nvidia.com.
Still in both cases, the xorg opens but the glx acceleration of Nvidia is not recognized!

I want to use full acceleration on my video card! Just dunno how to make it work.

Thanks =)

Tchatcha

crazycat · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 3:11 am Post subject:

I think the best way to handle this ist to just buy a supported graphic card, because maintaining your own overlay for older xorg/dependencies might be alot of pain/old bugs. You might have more luck using debian for that. I recently bought nvidia's 7300gs for 4 euros + ~6 euro shipping, but it's pci express. The pci would be more expencive, since they are more rare. The ati people released the 3d docs so there is a possibility we'll get open source 3d on them pretty soon, so I'd vote for a cheap ati card. tnt2 is pretty old (9 years alredy), also your version is a low-end one, I wonder what kind of 3d applications can you run on it.

TchaTcha · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 4:10 am Post subject:

Hehehe, ok =) I luv gentoo, but guess will go with debian on this pc, will see how it goes with legacy.

About buying a new card, i wish =D.
My budget of university student in brazil wont let me do much, but soon i will work and then will just buy a bad arse pc =D.
This pc is formely from a friend who did an update on his and gave me some part, its not really worthy spending money on it =).
Its use, well, academic papers, lots of music and video playing, some programming, and totally no games, no time =).

But Thanks a lot for answering me =)

Best wishes,

Tcha.