Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Yuval Hager <yuval@××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: NVIDIA 100.14.19 + xorg-server 1.4.0.90 + xorg-x11 7.3 = blackscreen after every restart
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:24:00
Message-Id: 200712311421.44134.yuval@avramzon.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] NVIDIA 100.14.19 + xorg-server 1.4.0.90 + xorg-x11 7.3 = blackscreen after every restart by Enrico Weigelt
1 On Sunday 30 December 2007, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
2 > * Jan Jitse Venselaar <janjitse@×××××.com> wrote:
3 > > I'm having the same problem, with a Geforce 8800 GTS and nvidia-drivers
4 > > 169.04.
5 >
6 > Actually, Nvidia's binary crap *never* worked for me (GeForce Go 6100).
7 > All the versions I tried (all from portage, even the hard masked),
8 > crashed the whole machine (!) a few seconds after the Xserver
9 > came up. Seem their kernel driver is heavily broken.
10 >
11
12 Have you tried their latest, x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-169.07 ? I am not
13 following closely, but it should have major fixes and improvements.
14 It works for me on GeForce 7300.
15
16 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199671
17
18 --y

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