Hi Brice,
thanks for your fast
reply!
In the meantime I
googled a workaround where to set "-ignoreABI".
(http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_XOrg_7.1_With_Older_NVidia_Drivers#Running_X)
And I tried to use the
libGL modules delivered from xorg with google earth (the actual reason
why I use NVIDIA drivers), was happy that it started at all - but then
my system froze almost with the first zoom action.
Workaround for KDM in
debian: Add -ignoreABI to /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc to following line:
ServerCmd=/usr/bin/X -br -ignoreABI
A disadvantage is that
xorg packages replace the files libGLcore.so and libglx.so in
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions not using
symlinks. This leads to permanent struggle with NVIDIA
installation which per default uses symlinks and mourns about this.
My card only works with the legacy 9639 driver. I wonder if NVIDIA will
deliver an update for it anyway...
Cheers
Norbert
Brice Goglin wrote:
Norbert Breun wrote:
xserver-xorg-core (2:1.3.0.0.dfsg-12) to 2:1.3.99.0-2
I am using the NVIDIA drivers NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9639-pkg1.
Having upgraded to above packages I get following error + X does not
start:
[31] 0 0 0x000003c0 - 0x000003df (0x20) IS[B](OprU)
(EE) NVIDIA(0): This video driver ABI is not supported.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Use the -ignoreABI option to override this check.
Fatal server error:
AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0
You need a new nVidia driver which supports Xserver 1.4
(xserver-xorg-core 1.3.99.0 is the packaging of the first release
candidate of Xserver 1.4).
But I don't know whether nVidia will release such a driver before the
official Xserver 1.4 is released (planned for the end of August).
Brice