@faheem - is there a legacy version of that vdpau package? in sid there's nvidia-legacy-340xx-vdpau-driver but that's a later version than your 304xx. do the 340xx drivers support your GPU? if so, it's probably safe to upgrade. if not, then unsafe.
> The Linux 340.* legacy driver series is the last to support the G8x, G9x, and GT2xx GPUs, and motherboard chipsets based on them. Support for new Linux kernels and X servers, as well as fixes for critical bugs, will be included in 340.* legacy releases through the end of 2019.
The Linux 304.* legacy driver series is the last to support the NV4x and G7x GPUs and motherboard chipsets based on them. Support for new Linux kernels and X servers, as well as fixes for critical bugs, will be included in 304.* legacy releases through the end of 2017.
The only reason not to be running the latest nvidia drivers (imho) is if support for your card has been dropped, and in that case I'd run the last driver to support it.
if not, i very strongly recommend getting a new GPU. the 7300 GSs were notoriously buggy (i had one years ago). even a GT210 (approx. $39 AUD) will beat the pants off a 7300GS and use less power in doing so.
@cas Ok. And yes, X has been crashing regularly this past year. It's quite annoying. I thought initially it was hardware, but am wondering if it is the Nvidia drivers.
Do you have any specific recommendations on a good card? I could always reuse it in the next configuration of my workstation. Graphics cards can last quite a long time.
@cas No, I was replying to "i'd be inclined to suspect the 7300gs.". In other words, where is the problem more likely to lie, with the Nvidia graphics card itself or the Nvidia drivers?
@cas India.
@cas Maybe give me a couple of reasonable suggestions with some variations in price?
most of those cards will work either nouveau (free software drivers). they'll all work with nvidia proprietary drivers.
largely for playing games. also for playing video files (although a GT210 or 610 is likely to be fast enough). and for accelerating stupid animation effects in your desktop (i turn all that crap off on my machines).
@cas Oh. I had problems getting this one to work with the nouveau driver and KDE. I think I tried switching to nouveau when I upgraded to jessie a few months ago (I think that is when it was).
Does the world have a decent graphics card with properly supported free drivers?
@cas OK. It sounds like the GTK210 would likely be enough for me. And much more reliable, you say.
7300gs is so ancient probably nobody in the free software world is going to bother testing drivers against it...especially when you can get a brand new GT210 for about $25USD.
I have GTX-750s in my myth front-end boxes. serious overkill but future-proof for at least half-a-decade worth of driver upgrades. GTX-560Ti or GTX-560 in my main desktop machines. The 560s were great cards at a great price, I've had them for several years now and have been waiting for nvidia to produce something worth upgrading to for around $200-$300 AUD....the GTX-970 for around $500 AUD is too expensive for my liking.
I wish some company would make good, reasonably priced video cards, and support the making of free drivers. I had a Matrox card once. It was nice. Matrox Millenium, I think it was.
With my win7 steam box, i'm pushing the GTX-560 about as far as it can go since I recently upgraded my monitor to 2560x1440. I'll probably have to get a GTX-970 for it eventually but I'm delaying that for as long as i can.
a 7300gs would beat an original matrox card, and a $39AUD GT210 would beat that again. modern cards are much faster and cheaper than matrox were....they were top-end equipment in their day. and priced accordingly.
if VGA you may need to be careful about which brand of GT210 you get...different brands have different kind and number of connectors. e.g. some will have 2 or 3 x DVI and one HDMI or display port. Some of the DVI ports may support analog VGA via an adaptor.
yes, it's possible. use DVI in preference to VGA. DVI is digital and crisper/clearer than analog VGA signals, esp. over long cable distances or in electrically noisy environments or unshielded cables.
nope. i've tried radeon cards but gone back to nvidia. i want to use free drivers, but they just don't compare to the propriatary nvidia drivers. yet. i hope.
"Its very awesome product came with HDMI, DVI & VGA. By using this card i am easily able to setup dual monitor and play games very smoothly." From a review.
Less recently. Though the logs show crashes, X does not seem to actually crash for some reason. Anyway, I think a new card is worth trying. Do you have any specific information links about the bugginess of my card? It would be interesting to take a look.
these are kind of useful for blocking spam (because spambots make up non-existent hostnames for the SMTP HELO/EHLO negotiation). but if you need to accept mail from a misconfigured server (usually a windows box), then disable them
@FaheemMitha depends, when it's order from custommer very important, it's a bit risky to argu that you don't receive it's order because they have a badly configure server :D
@cas excuse number one: if we want to receive mail from them, they either fix their stuff, or we wouldn't be able to send and receive emails from anyone
(BTW i have those helo restrictions on my home mailserver. because i don't care if i lose one or two legit emails per year vs the thousands of spams auto-rejected)
@Braiam "but my marketing friend at gmail.com can receive them just fine. fix it or be fired".
if you don't have a general purpose junk map you could make a map for just helo whitelists with: check_helo_access hash:/etc/postfix/helo in smtp_recipient_restrictions. and then add ` bad.ehlo.server.com permit_auth_destination` to it and run postmap helo and postfix reload
@FaheemMitha i used to do a LOT with mail servers, working at ISPs etc. but i've done very little with them for the last 5 or so years. don't even bother updating my home spam filters much (very little spam gets through anyway...maybe a handful per month).
anyway, it's after midnight here. gotta go before i turn into a pumpkin or something.
Based on their model numbers (WDC WD20EARX-00PASB0), both of your RAID disks are "Green" drives these are notorious for constantly parking and unparking the drive heads and are not recommended for use for RAID applications.
Take a look at the output of smartctl or via the graphical "Disk Utility...
I have Debian Wheezy, and to install php 5.6, I added the repository of dotdeb. Now I'm trying to install php5-curl, but it claims there's a dependencies problem
Now I'm looking at the return of command apt-cache policy php5-curl
and I see higher versions, and I'm wondering, why isn't debian installing the newer versions by itself?
I mean version 5.6.15-1~dotdeb+7.1 looks good with all dependencies available from dotdeb repos... how can I go there?
If I try: `apt-get -f install php5=5.6.15-1~dotdeb+7.1`, it says:
php5 : Depends: libapache2-mod-php5 (>= 5.6.15-1~dotdeb+7.1~) but 5.6.6-1~dotdeb.1 is to be installed or
libapache2-mod-php5filter (>= 5.6.15-1~dotdeb+7.1~) but it is not going to be installed or
php5-cgi (>= 5.6.15-1~dotdeb+7.1~) but it is not going to be installed or
php5-fpm (>= 5.6.15-1~dotdeb+7.1~) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: php5-common (>= 5.6.15-1~dotdeb+7.1~) but 5.6.6-1~dotdeb.1 is to be installed
So my question is... what is going on? Why am I missing a dependency and the system is ignoring newer versions?
