Bug 131005

Summary:	fetchnvidia doesn't work with Nvidia GeForce 256
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Tobias Dürkop <t.duerkop>
Component:	YOU	Assignee:	Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	SuSE Linux 10.0
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Description Tobias Dürkop 2005-10-27 13:47:02 UTC

Just as described in ID-112619 the fetchnvidia script fails for Nvidia GeForce 256 without warning (if you run the script directly from a shell you _do_ get a warning). Since the same script from SuSE 9.3 seems to work nicely under 10.0 (don't know what happens in case of a kernel update) and since the script from 10.0 already tests for the version of the graphics chip before downloading anything, shouldn't it be easy to adapt the script such that it installs an older driver if it finds a pre-GeForce 2 chip???

Comment 1 Tobias Dürkop 2005-10-28 02:23:42 UTC

Interesting effect: After installing the driver as described on a system that had not been rebooted after running with the GPL-driver the X-server runs fine with the Nvidia driver including 3d-acceleration and everything. However, after rebooting the system the X-server fails to start up (holds for 1.0-7167 and 1.0-7174 drivers). Is there any way to use a diffent driver to initialize the system and then switch to the Nvidia driver

Comment 2 Tobias Dürkop 2005-10-30 00:09:46 UTC

Found out more about this problem: It happens with NVidia driver versions up to 1.0-7174 on systems that create device nodes dynamically at boot. A workaround is sketched in http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=57829

Comment 3 Stefan Dirsch 2005-11-01 13:34:05 UTC

Supporting different versions of the nvidia driver (required for legacy nvidia chipsets) is not an option for us. It's still not possible for YOU to offer patches depending on the hardware. Exiting with an error is not an option since YOU cannot display the error message and so way to many users would be confused after selecting this patch although they don't have any NVIDIA chipset at all. In case you don't know it yet.

http://www.suse.de/~sndirsch/nvidia-installer-HOWTO.html
http://www.suse.de/~sndirsch/nvidia-installer-HOWTO.html#19