[gentoo-user] Nvidia GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x & xorg-1.6?

Hi,
Will that combination work?

I'm having trouble finding the right combination of kernel,
nvidia-driver and xorg-server for a remote machine.

The machine was running xorg-server-1.5 with 2.6.29-gentoo-r4 and
nvidia-drivers-96.43.09. So far when I try to use the newer
xorg-server-1.6 it seems to not like that kernel and when I use a
newer kernel it doesn't like that nvidia-driver. When I try to update
the driver I get messages along the line of this VGA not being
supported by the newer driver.

Where do I find info on what kernels are required for
xorg-server-1.6 and then what drivers are supporting this device?

Thanks,
Mark

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht.RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>   Will that combination work?
>
>   I'm having trouble finding the right combination of kernel,
> nvidia-driver and xorg-server for a remote machine.
>
>   The machine was running xorg-server-1.5 with 2.6.29-gentoo-r4 and
> nvidia-drivers-96.43.09. So far when I try to use the newer
> xorg-server-1.6 it seems to not like that kernel and when I use a
> newer kernel it doesn't like that nvidia-driver. When I try to update
> the driver I get messages along the line of this VGA not being
> supported by the newer driver.
>
>   Where do I find info on what kernels are required for
> xorg-server-1.6 and then what drivers are supporting this device?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
As a follow-up I found this page at NVidia:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_32667.html

The device is listed in the second group - driver-1.0-96xx driver. Is
that by any chance the same as the "nvidia-drivers-96.43.xx" package?

If so how do I determine what kernel and xorg-server that will work with?

Thanks,
Mark