James wrote:
> hello,
>
> I have a couple of old 32bit amd athlon XP systems:
>
> They have very old, no longer supported nvidia cards:
>
> NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] && NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]
>
> All ebuilds that could satisfy
> "x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers" have been masked"
>
> These systems are used to run jffnms, postgresql rrdtool
> to show network devices and their status. Nothing fancy
> just 2D and kde.
>
> 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.
>
> I intend to use them for a long time as to drive a graphical
> display for network monitoring and management.
>
> Any low cost suggestions are most welcome, particularly something
> that is open source on the driver, so I can keep them useful
> for a long time.
>
>
> James
>
>  

I have this card as reported by lspci:

02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX
5200] (rev a1)

This is the driver that I use:

[I--] [ -] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-169.09-r1 (0)

This is the setting in my make.conf file for this card:

VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"

It all seems to work fine here so may be worth a try to see if it will
work for you as well. I use KDE here and the video works very well for
a older card.

Hope that helps.

Dale

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