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2010-07-17 01:54, walt skrev: |
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> On 07/15/2010 11:03 PM, Erik wrote: |
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>> You may know enough to help if you are familiar with Xorg, in |
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>> particular the driver called NV |
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> I know a little about it. It is no longer maintained by xorg or |
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> nvidia, so |
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> that may be part of the problem if you are using recent nvidia hardware. |
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> |
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> A commonly asked question is "does it work as expected with the vesa |
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> driver?" |
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> (Vesa does not include 2D/3D acceleration, obviously, but it should at |
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> least |
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> give you correct results for an ordinary console.) |
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> |
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> The open-source 'nv' driver has been replaced by the open-source |
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> 'nouveau' |
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> driver, which is still very much a work in progress. I'm using it |
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> just to |
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> experiment -- I don't need 2D/3D acceleration, but maybe you do. If |
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> so, you |
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> need to use nvidia's proprietary 'nvidia' driver because it's the only |
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> choice |
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> you have at present. |
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Now I finally have 'nouveau' sort of working. The hardest part so far |
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was probably learning the spelling of it. |
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Unfortunately some icons are corrupted in the taskbar of the panel (see |
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attached screenshot) and Alt+Tab window. I tried all versions of |
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xf86-video-nouveau in portage. |