Re: nvidia-driver - some problems
On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 13:05:46 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
>> driver from Nvidia.
>> >
>> > 2. This card is not supported by the newest driver, but with
>> > nvidia-kernel- legacy-173xx and nvidia-glx-173xx.
>>
>> (...)
>>
>> Wait, wait... That's not possible.
>>
>> Branch "280.xx" should be fine for your card. What problem are you
>> facing with the newer driver in wheezy? :-?
>>
>
>
> well, I tried the latest driver, and I read, it should support GF6000
> and higher. But the kernel-module will not load. It is still telling "no
> device".
Maybe that's another problem you should investigate further (I would
start by looking at Xorg logs) but the driver version does support you
card, there is no need to keep the legacy branch nor older drivers :-)
> Like it was in the past, when 7000 cards were officially not supported.
>
> Thus I used the legacy drivers.
Nope, that cannot be possible. Can you point me to some oficial document?
I'm interested in this because I also have a 7600GS card and wouldn't
like to have any problem in the upcoming wheezy.
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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