On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 11:12 +0100, Ned Slider wrote: > JohnS wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 15:11 -0400, Scott Robbins wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 08:51:23PM +0200, Dag Wieers wrote: > >>> On Tue, 15 Sep 2009, Akemi Yagi wrote: > >>> > >>> The only reason for me to keep maintaining the dkms packages, would be > >>> for those people not running supported kernels (recent/official). But if > >>> we could describe and automate the building of kmod packages, I would > >>> prefer that route over dkms at any time. > >> For what it's worth, the elrepo version worked well with my unsupported > >> kernel (a VServer 2.6.22 kernel) > > --- > > > > Could those that are trying out the "kmod" driver please report what > > video card model you have. Would be nice to have a good list of the > > Legacy and Newer Cards. > > > > JohnStanley > > > > 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. --- Maybe consider doing it? I myself use a lot of older hardware with the legacy cards in them. Umm, what's involvled doing it? "NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9639-pkg1.run" is used in one of my desktops. Which supports most legacy cards from nvidia. JohnStanley
