Legacy nvidia linux driver for GF2 MX from livna

As nVidia has stopped supporting linux driver for GF2 MX. Users of GF2 MX card has only to rely on the legacy linux driver from livna repocitory.

Upon updating of linux kernel, one has to update the legacy linux driver as well.

yum --enablerepo=livna update kmod-nvidia-legacy kernel

And on my linux wireless system, I need the matching madwifi driver from livna as well.

So the appropriate command becomes

yum --enablerepo=livna update kmod-madwifi kmod-nvidia-legacy kernel

Reflection on 2006: PC stuffs that I bought in 2006 & total spending.

It's the beginning of the year & as usual, it's time to summarise my spending on pc stuffs in 2006. As it stood I spent about S$2613 in the whole year of 2005 & pledged to cut that spending in 2006. Let's see how I fared in 2006.

1. HEC 380W power supply - S$75
2. InWin Z583T casing - S$45
3. Western Digital 160G SATA2 harddisk - S$119
4. Nokia 6230i cell phone - S$228
5. Foxconn 6150K8MA-8EKRS - S$129
6. XFree XE233 2.1 Speakers - S$30
7. TDK 16X DVD media 25pcs - S$15
8. TDK 16X DVD media 25pcs - S$14
9. IDE USB 2.0 3.5" enclosure - S$30
10. DVD-ROM TS-H352 - S$29
11. 901BB Barebone casing - S$69 - S$30 from sale of Z583T casing
12. 901BB Barebone casing - S$67 - S$30 from sale of V564G casing
13. MAHA MH-C204W charger with 4X MAHA AA 2700mAh rechargeable batteries - S$49
14. 4X MAHA AA 2700mAh rechargeable batteries - S$15
15. Ricoh 8X DVD+R 100 pieces - S$50
16. Creative technology SBS240 speakers - S$15
17. A1Pro wireless optical mouse - S$17
18. Galaxy HP-7 headset microphone - RM$15
19. LG DVD ROM 16x 52x - S$33
20. Kingston PC2-4200 DDR2 512MB 533MHz - S$87
21. A64 AM2 X2 3600+ + Asus M2NPV-VM - S$368
22. sold MSI K8NGM2-FID + Venice 3000+ - S$230(+)
23. sold 2X 512MB Twinmos DDR400 rams - S$150(+)
24. sold 4-pc-to-1-monitor manual KVM switch - S$25(+)

Total - S$1019 + RM$15.

There, I have more than halved my spending of S$2613 in 2005 to S$1044 in 2006.