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| Author: | Big boy stan [ Sat Mar 13, 2010 1:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | nvidia legacy driver |
While setting up my diskless front end, i cant get X to start. messages.log reports that it doesnt like the nvidia 190.53 driver. It says that the NVIDIA GEForce FX Go5200 GPU is supported by the Nvidia 173.14.xx Legacy driver. I tried pacman -S nvidia-173xx but is says not found in sync db. How can I downgrade this driver? |
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| Author: | welner [ Sat Mar 13, 2010 5:03 pm ] |
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reviewing /etc/pacman.d/mirror.list shows a mirror exists at this site: http://unix.net.pl/archlinux.org/extra/os/i686/ you can do a wget http://unix.net.pl/archlinux.org/extra/ ... pkg.tar.gz to get it and a pacman -U nvidia-173xx-173.14.25-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz assuming you dont want to repoint your pacman config to this polish server |
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| Author: | Big boy stan [ Mon Mar 15, 2010 11:50 am ] |
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Thanks welner but as is often the case with using pacman outside of the Linhes repos, it had some dependencies that were not available. I wound up getting a hard disk for my "diskless" frontend and ran a fresh install. It found the right drivers and worked fine. For information purposes, how did you find the location of this file? Is there a special search for arch repo packages? |
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| Author: | welner [ Mon Mar 15, 2010 1:55 pm ] |
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i looked in the mirrors list shown in the pacman.conf file, picked one or two at random and checked to see if the legacy driver was there. i guess i've been lucky looking for 'non standard' packages this way, the one or two i needed did not have other dependencies. i guess one could actually point pacman to the mirrors, but i am hesitant to go astray from the repository maintained for the purposes of linhes. |
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| Author: | cecil [ Mon Mar 22, 2010 10:32 am ] |
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You shouldn't use an nvidia package outside of our repo. The nvidia module needs to be compiled against our kernel. |
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