nvidia driver update removes support for older cards!

[Matthias Saou]

Daniel Rey wrote :

> I just updated my home computer and now the propietary nvidia driver (
> nvidia-x11-drv-1.0.9746-1.i386.rpm) fails to load. I ran "modprobe nvidia"
> and it fails with a message saying that my GeForce2 MX/MX 400 is no longer
> supported, that I should use 1.0.96xx drivers instead. I tried to download
> the previous version of the driver again (nvidia-x11-drv-1.0.9631-1.i386.rpm)
> but it is gone from all the mirrors. If anyone has this old rpm around could
> you send it to me?
> 
> Matthias maybe you can rebuild it as nvidia-legacy-x11-drv or something, to
> keep it available for us folks with old (but still working very well) cards.
> 
> Thank you very much and merry christmas to you all!

I just came back from holidays and have released nvidia-x11-drv-96xx
packages for all the people who have been asking how to downgrade to
the 96xx series, after Nvidia dropped support for many adapters in the
97xx series. Please let me know if anything doesn't work properly.

Note : I forgot to add an explicit "conflicts" to the current packages,
but I'll add it in a future rebuild.

Matthias

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