new nVidia driver released

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Kurt Wall wrote:

> On Thursday 02 June 2005 23:15, Net Llama! enlightened us thusly:
> > For anyone who hasn't heard, a new nvidia Linux driver was released
> > yesterday (1.0-7664):
> > http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html
> >
> > Also the first Solaris-10 (x86 & x86_64) driver was released, if
> > you're into that sort of pain & suffering ;)
>
> Cool. Thanks for the update, Llama.

Also, i should note that several older cards are deprecated in this new
driver (In other words, they will not work):
    NVIDIA chip name                   Device PCI ID
    -------------------------------    -------------------------------
    RIVA TNT                           0x0020
    RIVA TNT2/TNT2 Pro                 0x0028
    RIVA TNT2 Ultra                    0x0029
    Vanta/Vanta LT                     0x002C
    RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro    0x002D
    Aladdin TNT2                       0x00A0
    GeForce 256                        0x0100
    GeForce DDR                        0x0101
    Quadro                             0x0103
    GeForce2 GTS/GeForce2 Pro          0x0150
    GeForce2 Ti                        0x0151
    GeForce2 Ultra                     0x0152
    Quadro2 Pro                        0x0153

(above taken from the README that ships with the driver).

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