Bug #907
installer does not check nvidia card hardware version before installing driver
| Status: | Rejected | Start date: | 03/02/2013 | |
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| Priority: | Normal | Due date: | ||
| Assignee: | - | % Done: | 0% |
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| Category: | - | Spent time: | - | |
| Target version: | - |
Description
I have just installed R8 on my FE and it has a nvidia 7600GS so naturally the installer detects that it is a nvidia card and trys to installer the driver. However once the driver is installed and the modeline then gets set the installer stops there.
I was able to get my front-end installed using the vesa driver, however when I tried to install the nvidia driver the system only has the current 310 driver available.
Could you please make the installer smarter, this page has the codes you need to check which version of the driver to use, https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA
History
Updated by jams almost 11 years ago
- Status changed from New to Rejected
R7 had this ability and it was a nightmare and never worked correctly, so it was removed from R8. If someone wants to submit a patch to make it work and easy to maintain that would be great.