On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Lars Tennstedt <oss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > it seems that the NVIDIA developers will only fix it if they have time to do > it. I guess that the legacy driver does not have a high priority. > > I tried the nouveau driver and it works on my old GeForce 3 even with > compositing. It is a little bit slow but it does the job. Thanks for the > hint. > But on my other computer the nouveau driver does not work with a GeForce 7. > It is weird. Two NVIDIA graphic cards and one needs the closed source driver > and the another one the open source one. > > Geforce 7 should work, see the links in http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nouveau#Installation If it does not work at all, you should report that to upstream developers. Maybe try first the latest packages which have just been moved to extra today.
