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ReaperX7 12-28-2013 02:32 PM

Fixing it would be logical for the short-term, but it needs sustainable maintenance in the long-term.

Nouveau does have in fact limited support for older Nvidia hardware down to, possibly, the TNT (NV04), though nouveau_vidux but yes, it's support is VERY limited and fan control issues are a problem that are being worked on.

As stated above if you have issues, you should contact the nouveau driver team for a fix so it can be submitted to the Linux kernel and mesa3d projects equally.

John VV 12-28-2013 07:47 PM

back to this from the OP
Quote:

As suggested, I upgraded to xorg-server-1.14.5
the 96 driver will NOT work on xorg greater than 1.12

to use the "NVIDIA-Linux-x86-96.43.23-pkg1.run" driver
you have to DOWNGRADE xorg to 1.12 or 1.11

TobiSGD 12-28-2013 08:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by John VV (Post 5088270)
back to this from the OP

the 96 driver will NOT work on xorg greater than 1.12

to use the "NVIDIA-Linux-x86-96.43.23-pkg1.run" driver
you have to DOWNGRADE xorg to 1.12 or 1.11

Or just report the bug (or see if it probably is already fixed in 1.15) and use nouveau.

John VV 12-28-2013 08:52 PM

because it is NOT A BUG !!!!
nvidia will NOT SUPPORT the 96 driver for new versions of xorg
see the nvidia "96.43.23" driver page
http://www.nvidia.com/download/drive...px/48996/en-us

Quote:

Added support for X.Org xserver versions 1.11 and 1.12.
Improved compatibility with recent Linux kernels.
the 96 driver IS UNSUPPORTED !!!!!!!!!
it was last updated on "2012.9.14 "

nvidia will NOT support a driver for 13 year old cards

TobiSGD 12-28-2013 09:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by John VV (Post 5088295)
because it is NOT A BUG !!!!
nvidia will NOT SUPPORT the 96 driver for new versions of xorg
see the nvidia "96.43.23" driver page
http://www.nvidia.com/download/drive...px/48996/en-us



the 96 driver IS UNSUPPORTED !!!!!!!!!
it was last updated on "2012.9.14 "

nvidia will NOT support a driver for 13 year old cards

And that is a reason not to report a bug in nouveau? I don't think so.

jtsn 12-29-2013 01:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ReaperX7 (Post 5088191)
Fixing it would be logical for the short-term, but it needs sustainable maintenance in the long-term.

Driver code for old hardware needs a complete freeze, so developing and maintaining the code for the newer chipsets doesn't break the old stuff by accident (which is exactly what happened).

So now would be a good time to branch off the last known good code as "nouveau_legacy" driver and remove the PCI-IDs from the current one, so it doesn't get selected anymore.

Quote:

Nouveau does have in fact limited support for older Nvidia hardware down to, possibly, the TNT (NV04)
This hardware is still supported by nv(4) (mainly frozen). nouveau(4) was meant as a nv(4) replacement for hardware, which doesn't work with nv(4).

metaschima 12-29-2013 11:28 AM

You could try the old 'nv' driver, maybe it will work.


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