On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 07:10:48PM +0000, James wrote:
> These cards were supported by the Nvidia legacy driver
> but now that's gone there is no support for these cards.
> So I guess I'd like to replace them with something that
> is open source on the driver, so as to keep support a long time.
> (perhaps an old ATI card?)
> I think they are AGP 4 motherboards.

Huh? Whatdya mean they are gone?

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml

Just put >=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-87.00 in
/etc/portage/package.mask

and you'll get the legacy drivers, no?

And if you only use them for 2D graphics, might want to try the nv
driver.

HTH,

W
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