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FS#11689 - nvidia 177.80 driver drops support for some cards: new legacy driver package needed?

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Filip Wojciechowski (fwojciec) - Wednesday, 08 October 2008, 20:27 GMT
Last edited by Pierre Schmitz (Pierre) - Wednesday, 08 October 2008, 20:28 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

The latest nvidia driver (177.80) drops support for various FX GPUs; From Nvidia 177.80 driver release notes:
"GeForce FX GPUs are supported through the 173.14.xx NVIDIA legacy graphics drivers."
Currently none of the nvidia driver packages that are available from the repos work with the GPU in my laptop (GeForce FX Go5200), for example.
My guess is that, unfortunately, an additional set of "legacy" packages with 173.14.xx series of drivers will be needed...

Additional info:
nvidia 177.80-1
nvidia-utils 177.80-1

Steps to reproduce:
Install 177.80 drivers on a system with an affected FX GPU and start X session.
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Closed by  Pierre Schmitz (Pierre)
Wednesday, 08 October 2008, 20:28 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed

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