[ale] Decent low-cost AGP graphics card for a server

[Greg Freemyer]

Those instructions call for the nvidia 1.0-7174 driver which is no
longer available.

I tried the nvidia 173.14.25 driver, but it said my old card needed
the older 71.86.13 driver.

I've downloaded that and done the compile.  I even was able to
modprobe the resulting nvidia.ko file into my kernel.

And I've run nvidia-xconfig which created nice clean
/etc/X11/xorg.conf as desired.

So I was feeling good, but when I run startx after the above, I still
get an error message:

dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so: undefined symbol:
AllocateScreenPrivateIndex

Or with some context
=================== Xorg.0.log
<snip>
[ 66599.092] (II) Module dri: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 66599.092]    compiled for 1.8.0, module version = 1.0.0
[ 66599.092]    ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 3.0
[ 66599.092] (II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI
[ 66599.092] (II) LoadModule: "dri2"
[ 66599.093] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri2.so
[ 66599.093] (II) Module dri2: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 66599.093]    compiled for 1.8.0, module version = 1.2.0
[ 66599.093]    ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 3.0
[ 66599.093] (II) Loading extension DRI2
[ 66599.093] (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
[ 66599.094] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
[ 66599.095] dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so:
undefined symbol: AllocateScreenPrivateIndex
[ 66599.095] (EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
[ 66599.096] (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
[ 66599.096] (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (loader failed, 7)
[ 66599.096] (EE) No drivers available.
[ 66599.096]
Fatal server error:
[ 66599.096] no screens found
[ 66599.096]
===============================

I've not troubleshot beyond the above.  I just figured my old card
needed such an old nvidia driver (71.86.13) that things no longer
work.

Greg

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 2:07 PM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote:
> Any old nVidia card should work.
>
> http://tr.opensuse.org/NVIDIA#Legacy_chipset_support
>
> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> I'm rebuilding an old server into a linux fileserver.  (It was windows before.)
>>
>> I've got it running fine with text, but no X graphics at all yet.
>>
>> I occasionally like to startx and use a gui even on a server, so I'd
>> like to get X working.
>>
>> The MB on this thing is only PCI or AGP.
>>
>> I tried a couple of AGP graphics adapters I had laying around, and at
>> least at first blush they weren't supported by the latest openSUSE
>> release (11.3 from 2 weeks ago).  I assume they were too old, or
>> simply never supported.
>>
>> One was an old nvidia card and I even tried downloading and installing
>> the old 71.86.13 nvidia kernel module.  (In theory they have kept it
>> compatible with recent kernels, but it didn't work for me.)
>>
>> Does anyone know of a AGP graphics card I can still buy and that is
>> supported in a recent kernel (ie. 2.6.34).
>>
>> Thanks
>> Greg
>
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