nvidia-glx-legacy does not work with 386 kernels

[Barry Warsaw]

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.

[Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe)]

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

[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

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.

[Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe)]

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.

[Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe)]

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)

[Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe)]

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

[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

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.

[Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe)]

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

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

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