nvidia driver update removes support for older cards!

[Daniel Rey]

On 1/8/07, Matthias Saou <
thias at spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.egg.and.spam.freshrpms.net> wrote:
>
> 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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I installed it yesterday and everything works fine so far.

Thank you very much!

Regards,
Daniel

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