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What are you talking about ? 8776 is long ago stable on amd64 |
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> > Hi, |
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> > I got my fonts back by now, even with the beta driver from portage. There are |
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> > two main problems now: |
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> > 1: i cant go back to stable nvidia-drivers, because of the font problem |
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> > 2: when using the beta driver, changing the resolution when running, lets say, |
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> > a game in fullscreen mode with another resolution than the standard crashes |
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> > X. |
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> > cu |
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> > Dieter |
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> Using a minute to search on google can really help solve problems. |
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> 1. Stable nvidia is not compatible with xorg 7.1. This has been discussed |
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> at length both here and on nvnews.net |
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> 2. nvidia 9629 has a horrible _known_ bug that causes the crash. |
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> You can easily mask it using: |
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> echo =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.9629 >> /etc/portage/package.mask |
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> Then emerge the unstable (~amd64) driver in portage. It should be 8776, |
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> which works. |
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> gentoo-amd64@g.o mailing list |
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