How to install the Nvidia driver in Fedora Core 5 ?
Wong Kwok-hon
kwokhon at gmail.com
Fri Apr 14 07:09:02 UTC 2006
On 4/14/06, Lyvim Xaphir <knightmerc at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 13:31 +0800, Wong Kwok-hon wrote:
>
> > Forgot to tell u that I got the information from Nvidia readme file as follows:
> >
> > Below are the legacy GPUs that are no longer supported in the unified
> > driver. These GPUs will continue to be maintained through the special
> > legacy NVIDIA GPU driver releases.
> > NVIDIA chip name Device PCI ID
> > RIVA TNT 0x0020
> > RIVA TNT2/TNT2 Pro 0x0028
> > RIVA TNT2 Ultra 0x0029
> > Vanta/Vanta LT 0x002C
> > RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro 0x002D
> > Aladdin TNT2 0x00A0
> > GeForce 256 0x0100
> > GeForce DDR 0x0101
> > Quadro 0x0103
> > GeForce2 GTS/GeForce2 Pro 0x0150
> > GeForce2 Ti 0x0151
> > GeForce2 Ultra 0x0152
> > Quadro2 Pro 0x0153
> >
> > So.... No legacy driver for above cards ?
> >
> > Wong Kwok Hon
> >
>
> Ow. The only hope you have at this point is to find a way to get the
> 7174 Nvidia-brand installer to compile under FC5. You may have luck if
> you can find out what the last release of the Nvidia driver was *before*
> they terminated support on your card. Newer than 7174, maybe better
> luck compiling.
>
> With either a 7174 installer or a slightly newer one that still has
> support, i would start watching the installer logs when it tries to
> compile. You may be able to work out the problems and get past the
> compile hurdles.
>
> If not, you're either stuck with the slow Xorg drivers, or you can get a
> Geforce card that's supported.
>
> You can pick up an overclocked FX 5200 for 34.99 us bucks.
>
> http://3btech.net/bfgasfaovgef1.html
>
> You can get the card I have here, an FX 5700 Ultra, for around 50 bucks.
>
>
> LX
I got a Geforce 2 MX from other 2nd hand computer and still failed to
modify the xorg.conf
The problem is X cannot the glx and nvidia but I can modprobe it in
root account...
Any steps need after modified xorg.conf after the nvidia-xconfig run ?
Wong Kwok Hon
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