AGP?

[john wendel]

On 12/27/2009 06:42 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Dec 2009, john wendel wrote:
>
>> On 12/27/2009 08:58 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>>> On Sat, 26 Dec 2009, john wendel wrote:
>
>>>> Use the Nvidia 173.14.22 series drivers for your FX 5200. 3D won't be
>>>> spectacular, but it will be useable.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>> Is it something I can do with yum and rpmfusion?
>>> I'm able to work outside the package system,
>>> but I always find it a struggle.
>>>
>>
>> kmod-nvidia on rpmfusion
>>
>> See <http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=1114782&postcount=2>
>> for complete instructions. You need the section "For GeForce FX cards".
>
> Thanks, it seems to mostly work.
> On some files, I got the message
> [vdpau] Could not open dynamic library libvdpau.so.1
> At some point, I did a
> yum install libvdpau-0.2-1.fc11.i586
> to provide it.
> Now I'm getting the message
> Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared
> object file: No such file or directory
> [vdpau] Error when calling vdp_device_create_x11: 1
>
> yum provides libvdpau_nvidia.so
> gives me two answers:
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-185.18.36-3.fc11.i586 and
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-190.42-1.fc11.i586 .
>
> Trying to install either one gives me dependency errors:
> yum install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-185.18.36-3.fc11.i586
> ...
> Error: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173xx conflicts with xorg-x11-drv-nvidia
> Error: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia conflicts with xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173xx
> Error: Missing Dependency: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia = 185.18.36-3.fc11 is
> needed by package xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-185.18.36-3.fc11.i586
> (rpmfusion-nonfree-updates)
>
> yum install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-190.42-1.fc11.i586
> ...
> Error: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia conflicts with xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173xx
> Error: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173xx conflicts with xorg-x11-drv-nvidia
>
> Does that mean no go on libvdpau?
>


All these different hardware/driver versions are confusing. The FX 5200 
doesn't support vdpau, sorry.

You're stuck with the 173xx series drivers. I think you need at least an 
8xxx series chipset for vdpau, my 9500 works great with mplayer using vdpau.

My FX 5200 will still play HD video, it just loads the CPU. But who 
cares, when I'm watching video, I'm not doing much else with the box.

Regards,

John