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From: Bernhard Auzinger <e0026053@×××××××××××××××××.at>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: NVIDIA 100.14.19 + xorg-server 1.4.0.90 + xorg-x11 7.3 = blackscreen after every restart
Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2008 19:17:03
Message-Id: 200801012014.50407.e0026053@student.tuwien.ac.at
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: NVIDIA 100.14.19 + xorg-server 1.4.0.90 + xorg-x11 7.3 = blackscreen after every restart by "Hemmann
1 Am Dienstag 01 Januar 2008 schrieb Hemmann, Volker Armin:
2 > On Montag, 31. Dezember 2007, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
3 > > * Yuval Hager <yuval@××××××××.net> wrote:
4 > > > Have you tried their latest, x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-169.07 ? I am
5 > > > not following closely, but it should have major fixes and improvements.
6 > > > It works for me on GeForce 7300.
7 > > >
8 > > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199671
9 > >
10 > > For this year I've already wasted too much resources on that.
11 > > Maybe I'll have a try in a few month. 3D stuff isnt't that
12 > > important for me - for 2D stuff the free driver works very fine.
13 >
14 > yeah, just copying an ebuild and replacing nv with nvidia in xorg.conf
15 > costs so much time and is so hard to do. Whining on the other hand does not
16 > take any time at all.
17 >
18 > > BTW: the ebuild conflicts between kernel and nvidia-drivers are
19 > > also annoying. The kernel parts should be handled differently.
20 >
21 > what are you talking about? conflicts? kernel parts? which kernel parts
22 > handled by what and why?
23
24 Maybe the problem is that he compiled in the deprecated nvidia framebuffer
25 support?
26
27 Rgds
28 Bernhard
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