Am Dienstag 01 Januar 2008 schrieb Hemmann, Volker Armin:
> On Montag, 31. Dezember 2007, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> > * Yuval Hager <yuval@...> wrote:
> > > Have you tried their latest, x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-169.07 ? I am
> > > not following closely, but it should have major fixes and improvements.
> > > It works for me on GeForce 7300.
> > >
> > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199671
> >
> > For this year I've already wasted too much resources on that.
> > Maybe I'll have a try in a few month. 3D stuff isnt't that
> > important for me - for 2D stuff the free driver works very fine.
>
> yeah, just copying an ebuild and replacing nv with nvidia in xorg.conf
> costs so much time and is so hard to do. Whining on the other hand does not
> take any time at all.
>
> > BTW: the ebuild conflicts between kernel and nvidia-drivers are
> > also annoying. The kernel parts should be handled differently.
>
> what are you talking about? conflicts? kernel parts? which kernel parts
> handled by what and why?

Maybe the problem is that he compiled in the deprecated nvidia framebuffer 
support?

Rgds
Bernhard
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