Bug 242308

Summary:	update for nvidia-guide
Product:	[OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org	Reporter:	Azamat H. Hackimov <azamat.hackimov>
Component:	Other documents	Assignee:	nm (RETIRED) <nightmorph>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	docs-team, richard
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Azamat H. Hackimov 2008-10-16 06:23:32 UTC

According new release notes for driver 177.80 from nVidia (http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/177.80/README/appendix-a.html)
support for GeForce FX 5 series droped. But legacy 173.14.x support it (http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/173.14.12/README/appendix-a.html)

Now section "Driver Compatibility" should look like this:
GeForce 9, 8, 7, 6 - latest
GeForce 5 - 173.14.x
GeForce 4, 3 - 96.43.x
Older NV2 cards - 71.86.x

Comment 1 Richard Ash 2008-12-27 16:43:08 UTC

Despite the lack of an update to the legacy drivers page at http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_32667.html, this is indeed true (tested with an FX5200 under x86). After masking the relevant packages, it works fine with the legacy 173.14.x drivers.

The nvidia-drivers eclass knows about this new restriction (although because it only tells ewarn and not elog, most people will miss the message. That's a different bug though) and supplies the relevant package mask as 
>=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-177.0.0

The first 177 series drivers have just arrived in x86 stable, so this will now be hitting all the stable users with old cards.

Comment 2 nm (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-01-26 08:21:08 UTC

Fixed in CVS.