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From: "Hemmann
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 18:44:04
Message-Id: 200801011941.43120.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de
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 Enrico Weigelt
1 On Montag, 31. Dezember 2007, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
2 > * Yuval Hager <yuval@××××××××.net> wrote:
3 > > Have you tried their latest, x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-169.07 ? I am not
4 > > following closely, but it should have major fixes and improvements.
5 > > It works for me on GeForce 7300.
6 > >
7 > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199671
8 >
9 > For this year I've already wasted too much resources on that.
10 > Maybe I'll have a try in a few month. 3D stuff isnt't that
11 > important for me - for 2D stuff the free driver works very fine.
12 >
13
14 yeah, just copying an ebuild and replacing nv with nvidia in xorg.conf costs
15 so much time and is so hard to do. Whining on the other hand does not take
16 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?
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