On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 07:50 -0400, Phil Schaffner wrote: > Ned Slider wrote on 09/16/2009 06:12 AM: > ... > > That tends to change as the drivers move forward over time, older cards > > become legacy and are no longer supported by the latest driver. > > > > For a list of cards supported by the latest driver, the user is better > > off referring to nvidia's documentation. Looking at the docs for the > > current driver leads me to believe that GeForce 6000 series cards are > > the oldest supported by this driver (GeForce 5x00 series is supported by > > the 173.14.xx driver and older still GeForce2/3/4 by driver 96.43.xx). > > > > We (ELRepo) haven't packaged older nvidia drivers (yet) but we can > > certainly look into that if there is a demand. > > I'd say "build it and they will come" to your repo of dreams. :-) > > Have definitely seen cases of people with problems getting older nVidia > cards to work, and a growth area for Linux in general is people with > hardware left behind by Redmond performance demands. > > As far as the Wiki page, more detail in the guide to choosing a driver > version and finding a package for the correct driver for your hardware > would be worth bonus points - seems to be another area of frequent problems. > > Phil In the doc we have been toying with the finding the correct driver is in there. -- LostSon http://lostsonsvault.org CentOS - It's not just for servers ya know... -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-docs/attachments/20090916/702cff3f/attachment.bin
