LinHES

The nvidia 7xxx drivers are not considered supported and where dropped from the repo. The fact it remained as an option with pacman was an oversight.
I'm not for sure the 7xxx drivers work with xorg > 1.5.2.
While not opposed to adding them back in, I don't see the point if they will not work with xorg 1.6

I will check this out and report back.

I can't find anything to say either way if this card will work with Xorg 1.6 and I agree that if this driver does not work in 1.6 there is no point persueing it. Could perhaps we look at the Nouveau driver http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FrontPage as an alternative to the proprietry nVidia driver.

The other options is, give me some basic instructions on how to install both X.org 1.6 and the nVidia driver and I will give it a go.

I eventually went and bought a new card AGP 6200 and was able to install the 180.51 driver. Could I suggest that this "bug" be changed to a Documentation thingo, that way we have had to draw a line in the sand and say that this type of hardware could not be support due to future progress. With most people now moving to to Digital broadcasting the use of this hardware is no longer recommended and if people still wish to use it they can use R5.5

71.86.09 have been added to the repo. The addition is a courtesy, install and configuration must be done manually as at some point due to things beyond out control, this will stop working (if it does work). Would be great if someone could test and report back. sudo pacman -Sy nvidia-71xx