nvidia-glx-legacy does not work with 386 kernels

Bug #107084 reported by Barry Warsaw
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linux-restricted-modules (Ubuntu)
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linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20 (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
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Bug Description

nvidia-glx-legacy has not worked with any -386 kernel since 2.6.20-13-386.

See this bug for history.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20/+bug/105675

I've confirmed that this driver works with 2.6.20-15-generic but not 2.6.20-15-386.

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Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe) wrote :

Barry:
Of course my next question is - do you have to use nvidia-glx-legacy given you have a GeForce 4MX?

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Barry Warsaw (barry) wrote :

Sitsofe: AFAIK, I have a Quadro4 NVS AGP 8x (NV18GL) card, at least according to /var/log/Xorg.0.log. At one point I had breakage with feisty and nvidia-glx and was told to switch to nvidia-glx-legacy. So that's what I did! :)

I haven't tried nvidia-glx and the -generic kernel. I could try that if you think it's useful, but of course that means a bit of down time so I have to figure out when I can usefully do that.

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Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe) wrote :

Barry:
Sorry my bad (been staring at too many nvidia-glx-legacy bugs). There was a brief period where nvidia-glx turned into the 97xx drivers but that change has since been reverted. Do post back if you get a chance to test nvidia-glx.

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Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe) wrote :

By the way, to change the default booted kernel edit /boot/grub/menu.lst (you won't be able to edit this file as a regular user so use sudo). Find the line that starts default and change the number that comes after it (further down there's a bunch of title stanzas the first of which is represented by 0)

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Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe) wrote :

Setting to needsinfo pending Barry's nvidia-glx test results.

Changed in linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20:
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Barry Warsaw (barry) wrote :

Sitsofe, to be honest I've forgotten about this one because it's been working through several kernel updates lately. I'm using nvidia-glx-legacy 1.0.7184+2.6.20.5-16.28 along with nvidia-glx-legacy-dev (same rev). I never did test ndvidia-glx because if it ain't broke, don't fix it. ;)

Let me know if there's anything else you need, or I guess you can close this issue.

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Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe) wrote :

Barry.
Fair enough if it works for you (although running with "older" drivers has drawbacks and isn't necessarily a supported configuration).

Changed in linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20:
status: Needs Info → Unconfirmed
Daniel T Chen (crimsun)
Changed in linux-restricted-modules:
status: New → Fix Released
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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote : linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20 is obsolete

This package has become obsolete so we're closing out the bug report as WONTFIX.
Thanks for reporting it though!

Changed in linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20:
status: New → Won't Fix
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