On 5/3/06, S. Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Richard Fish wrote:
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127618
Thanks for the link, very interesting indeed.
In comment #18 someone says that Nvidia won't release a newer legacy
driver set any time soon, whereas in the nVNews-forum someone from
NVIDIA Corporation announced that an updated legacy graphics driver is
planned for the near future. That one should match 1.0-8756.
Sounds pretty bad and good at the same time. Still: isn't someone of the
Gentoo-guys (experienced in patching) able to patch the old 6629 for the
time being or do I simply underestimate the effort?
The fact that no patch has been forthcoming, either from Gentoo or
someone on the nvnews forums, is probably an indicator that there is
no developer with all of:
a. A card requiring the legacy drivers.
b. A need to use 2.6.16+.
c. Knowledge of what needs to be done to fix the drivers.
d. The motivation to spend time supporting a proprietary driver.
As Chris indicated, you are being screwed by NVidia. Their 7174
drivers are broken, and they are being very slow to fix them. The
previous release is stable, but won't work with new kernels. Pretty
much the same old story of proprietary drivers on Linux unfortunately.
-Richard
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