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Bug 193511 - Older versions of nvidia-drivers removed without alternative
Summary: Older versions of nvidia-drivers removed without alternative
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers
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: 194339 195292 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2007-09-23 12:32 UTC by Henk de Leeuw
Modified: 2007-10-10 06:19 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Henk de Leeuw 2007-09-23 12:32:08 UTC 
Several older versions of nvidia-drivers have been removed, with explanation
  20 Sep 2007; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org> -files/nvidia-2,
  -files/NVIDIA_kernel-2.6.19.patch, files/nvidia,
  nvidia-drivers-1.0.7185.ebuild, -nvidia-drivers-1.0.8776-r1.ebuild,
  -nvidia-drivers-1.0.9631-r1.ebuild, nvidia-drivers-1.0.9639.ebuild,
  -nvidia-drivers-1.0.9746-r1.ebuild, -nvidia-drivers-1.0.9755-r1.ebuild,
  nvidia-drivers-100.14.09.ebuild, nvidia-drivers-100.14.11.ebuild,
  nvidia-drivers-100.14.19.ebuild:
  Removing older ebuilds where newer ebuilds in the same class have the same
  KEYWORDS or better

Yet, there are quite a number of video cards that do work with the older ebuilds, and do _not_ work with the ones that remain.
It is fine that newer ebuilds with the same KEYWORDS do exist, but these do not have the same functionality.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-09-23 12:46:07 UTC 
With one of 1.0.7185, 1.0.9639 and 100.14.x you get support for *all* cards our there. If they don't work for you, that's not our problem, go complain to nVidia or grab older ones from sources.gentoo.org
Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-10-01 07:20:06 UTC 
*** Bug 194339 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Henry Wertz 2007-10-02 01:36:33 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> With one of 1.0.7185, 1.0.9639 and 100.14.x you get support for *all* cards our
> there. If they don't work for you, that's not our problem, go complain to
> nVidia or grab older ones from sources.gentoo.org
> 

     Well, the thing is, nvnews has a number of threads with people complaining to nvidia regarding the same fault with Geforce4 MX440 cards, along with a few other (I think also MX) models -- textures all show black or dark grey.  Nvidia just claims it's either hardware failure, the BIOS, or overheating, despite pre-96xx drivers working fine on these chips.  The embarrasing part for nvidia is the main one not working is integrated into the nforce2 chipset.  71xx driver SUPPORTS them but is quite feature incomplete; 8776 supports them and is feature complete (primarily adding support for Composite extension, which 71xx doesn't support.)

     If 8776 is no longer being patched for current kernels, I can see pulling it -- in that case, here's hoping noveau gets ready very soon!  Otherwise, though, the remaining drivers absolutely do not fully support all nvidia cards.
Comment 4 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-10-10 06:19:39 UTC 
*** Bug 195292 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***