09-27-2014, 06:12 PM
Thanks gold_finger for the quick and informative reply.
As far as the dual-boot, you sold me on option #1, seems simple and pretty fail-safe.
The videos card/173 legacy driver issue ... I brought this up for a number of reasons I guess. Initially I installed LL 2.0 to a spare hard drive to play with it and had some driver issues (had to safe boot install, loaded 173 legacy drivers from Synaptic and after that still would only come up in safe mode) then after, I read this as well:
"it is fail assume your install is dead like my installs because of the newer kernel.
kernels newer than 3.2.0-42 DESTROY any hope for a working nvidia 96 / 173 setup
the new X server also kills legacy support. A double head shot!
nouveau is simply fatally broken and unlikely to care about legacy video cards.
I've had to downgrade distros to puppy linux racy or Xubuntu 12.04"
... this from thread https://www.freecinema2022.gq/forums/index...opic=119.0
and then in this: https://www.freecinema2022.gq/forums/index...opic=161.0 the user ultimately got it going with some assistance editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf ... but that was 1.06
I am relatively new to Linux so don't totally understand the issues in the first post I noted (new x server/+ 3.30-42 kernel), especially since I use an identical FX 5200 nvidia card in a similar system with Mint 13 LTS which I believe runs: 3.2.14 and I am using the legacy drivers with that card.
Also, there has been a recent release of the Legacy drivers 173.14.39 to address some issues:
http://linuxg.net/the-nvidia-173-14-39-l...structions
Added support for X.org xserver ABI 15 (xorg-server 1.15).
Updated nvidia-installer to consider the "libglamoregl.so" X loadable extension module to be in conflict with the NVIDIA OpenGL driver. This module can cause the NVIDIA libGL to be loaded into the same process (the X server) as the NVIDIA libglx.so extension module, which is not a supported use case. (not sure why update drivers if they are not usable in newer kernels of confilct with x server, or maybe this was a fix for the concerns voiced?
This distro is not the only one with FX 5200 issues as you might expect. It's a pretty old card and system, but on the other hand a large part of the appeal with light distros is in being able to breath new life into tired older systems, and in it's heyday the FX5200 was probably the most popular card nvidia sold.
I am totally fine with struggling a bit to get 2.0 up and running with the card, but it just isn't possible that would be nice to know. ;D So, if anyone has any info about this please let me know?
As far as the dual-boot, you sold me on option #1, seems simple and pretty fail-safe.
The videos card/173 legacy driver issue ... I brought this up for a number of reasons I guess. Initially I installed LL 2.0 to a spare hard drive to play with it and had some driver issues (had to safe boot install, loaded 173 legacy drivers from Synaptic and after that still would only come up in safe mode) then after, I read this as well:
"it is fail assume your install is dead like my installs because of the newer kernel.
kernels newer than 3.2.0-42 DESTROY any hope for a working nvidia 96 / 173 setup
the new X server also kills legacy support. A double head shot!
nouveau is simply fatally broken and unlikely to care about legacy video cards.
I've had to downgrade distros to puppy linux racy or Xubuntu 12.04"
... this from thread https://www.freecinema2022.gq/forums/index...opic=119.0
and then in this: https://www.freecinema2022.gq/forums/index...opic=161.0 the user ultimately got it going with some assistance editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf ... but that was 1.06
I am relatively new to Linux so don't totally understand the issues in the first post I noted (new x server/+ 3.30-42 kernel), especially since I use an identical FX 5200 nvidia card in a similar system with Mint 13 LTS which I believe runs: 3.2.14 and I am using the legacy drivers with that card.
Also, there has been a recent release of the Legacy drivers 173.14.39 to address some issues:
http://linuxg.net/the-nvidia-173-14-39-l...structions
Added support for X.org xserver ABI 15 (xorg-server 1.15).
Updated nvidia-installer to consider the "libglamoregl.so" X loadable extension module to be in conflict with the NVIDIA OpenGL driver. This module can cause the NVIDIA libGL to be loaded into the same process (the X server) as the NVIDIA libglx.so extension module, which is not a supported use case. (not sure why update drivers if they are not usable in newer kernels of confilct with x server, or maybe this was a fix for the concerns voiced?
This distro is not the only one with FX 5200 issues as you might expect. It's a pretty old card and system, but on the other hand a large part of the appeal with light distros is in being able to breath new life into tired older systems, and in it's heyday the FX5200 was probably the most popular card nvidia sold.
I am totally fine with struggling a bit to get 2.0 up and running with the card, but it just isn't possible that would be nice to know. ;D So, if anyone has any info about this please let me know?