video refresh fails on slackware-14.1 with legacy GeForce4 video card
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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.
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.
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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).
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