On the nvidia documentation: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml a section needs to be added explaining which drivers to mask if you have a legacy card (TNT2, GeForce 2 Ti, etc.) since those cards are no longer supported
(In reply to comment #0) > On the nvidia documentation: > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml > > a section needs to be added explaining which drivers to mask if you have a > legacy card (TNT2, GeForce 2 Ti, etc.) since those cards are no longer > supported Can you be more specific? Especially in regards to what is "supported" and what is not: I have an old GeForce2Go (even older than the Geforce2 Ti), and it is completely supported and works perfectly with the nVidia-provided binary drivers, at least the ones that are stable on x86.
Here is their supported list: http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_18897.html Here are the unsupported cards: TNT2 TNT2 Pro TNT2 Ultra TNT2 Model 64 (M64) TNT2 Model 64 (M64) Pro Vanta Vanta LT GeForce 256 GeForce DDR GeForce2 GTS GeForce2 Pro GeForce2 Ti GeForce2 Ultra GeForce2 MX Integrated graphics Quadro Quadro2 Pro Quadro2 EX Yes it's weird isn't it? My GeForce2 MX is still supported (as is your GeForce2Go) but NOT the GeForce 2 Ti. The age of the card doesn't seem to matter. They probably decided to stop supporting a specific type of architecture used only on those cards. Anyway, the following mask is what is needed to keep the old cards happy: >media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629-r4 >media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.6629-r7 (placed in /etc/portage/package.mask). I assumed this is why these old drivers were kept in portage. If not, someone needs to make the ebuild maintainers aware that these drivers need to be kept. What might be a good idea is to add a new nvidia-legacy ebuild or a "nvlegacy" use flag.
Created attachment 75554 [details, diff] nvidia-guide.xml.patch Okay, this adds a section or two about dealing with legacy video cards, as requested. It's a nice addition to the guide, IMHO. :) Please review and comment.
That looks like a good edition. Can we go ahead and push this to the gentoo.org website?
Looks good to me
Fixed. Thanks for reporting & patching.
