On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:47:42 -0500, Doug wrote:

> have a computer running Fedora Core 9 with an older Nvidia MX 4000 card.
> I downloaded the latest driver at nvidia.com and installed it with no
> problem. when I rebooted it would not work. the log file said it could
> not find the symbol AllocateScreenPrivateIndex. does anybody know what
> is wrong and how to fix it.

You can't use the latest Nvidia drivers for this card. You need
to use legacy drivers.

I did download what nvidia said was the latest legacy drivers. I tried
the legacy drivers before this but they would never get through the
install process. they kept dieing on the compiling of the driver.


On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:27:17 +0000, K. Jennings wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:47:42 -0500, Doug wrote:
>
>> have a computer running Fedora Core 9 with an older Nvidia MX 4000
>> card.
>> I downloaded the latest driver at nvidia.com and installed it with no
>> problem. when I rebooted it would not work. the log file said it
>> could not find the symbol AllocateScreenPrivateIndex. does anybody
>> know what is wrong and how to fix it.
>
> You can't use the latest Nvidia drivers for this card. You need
> to use legacy drivers.

I got it working myself under Slackware 12 with one of

NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9631-pkg1.run
NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9746-pkg1.run
NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.12-pkg1.run

I can't remember which.

On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:57:49 -0500, Doug wrote:

> I did download what nvidia said was the latest legacy drivers. I tried
> the legacy drivers before this but they would never get through the
> install process. they kept dieing on the compiling of the driver.
>
>
> On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:27:17 +0000, K. Jennings wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:47:42 -0500, Doug wrote:
>>
>>> have a computer running Fedora Core 9 with an older Nvidia MX 4000
>>> card.
>>> I downloaded the latest driver at nvidia.com and installed it with no
>>> problem. when I rebooted it would not work. the log file said it
>>> could not find the symbol AllocateScreenPrivateIndex. does anybody
>>> know what is wrong and how to fix it.
>>
>> You can't use the latest Nvidia drivers for this card. You need
>> to use legacy drivers.