Re: Trouble Installing nvidia-graphics-driver on Etch

[Wulfy <wulfmann@tiscali.co.uk>]

Florian Kulzer wrote:
> Vegard L. Rekaa wrote:
> > (WW) The directory "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" does not exist.
> > (WW) The directory "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID" does not exist.
> > (WW) The NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS/GeForce2 Pro GPU installed in this
> > (WW)      system is supported through the NVIDIA Legacy drivers.
> > (WW)      Please visit http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for
> > (WW)      more information.  The 1.0-8178 NVIDIA driver will ignore
> > (WW)      this GPU.  Continuing probe...
> > (EE) No devices detected.
>
> That is the problem: You older graphics card is not supported by the new
> nvidia driver (version 8178) which you have installed. You need to
> install the legacy driver (version 7174). You can either get it directly
> from the nvidia site and install it with the script that they provide,
> or if you want to install it the Debian way, you need to change the
> process slightly and replace "nvidia-kernel-source" with
> "nvidia-kernel-legacy-source" to get the correct version of the driver.
>
> Regards,
>            Florian
I had similar messages when I tried to install the nvidia driver.  Would
the 7174 version work with my card?

nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro] (rev 15)

I got lost at the nvidia site with all the different versions.  Couldn't 
find one that said it supported my card.

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