Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: URGENT: No more fonts after xorg changes

[Dieter Ries]

Hi,

I got my fonts back by now, even with the beta driver from portage. There are 
two main problems now:

1: i cant go back to stable nvidia-drivers, because of the font problem
2: when using the beta driver, changing the resolution when running, lets say, 
a game in fullscreen mode with another resolution than the standard crashes 
X.

cu
Dieter


Am Samstag 02 Dezember 2006 20:10 schrieb Duncan:
> "Dieter Ries" <Clip2@×××.de> posted 20061202162650.218370@×××.net,
>
> excerpted below, on  Sat, 02 Dec 2006 17:26:50 +0100:
> > When I try to start X, there is a message, that the module i use is
> > designed for ABI <1, and the XServer is running ABI 1, it says the server
> > will run, but there may be funny behaviours. Indeed there are.
>
> Either as you start or in the xorg log (/var/log/Xorg.0.log, normally),
> there should be some indication of what module it is talking about.
> See if equery belongs <module> turns up anything.  That's going to be the
> package you need to remerge.  If nothing is listed, it may be a stale
> version of a file or the slaveryware nvidia drivers you installed manually
> (which I take to mean outside of portage).  Note that installing them
> using the Gentoo package takes care of some stuff that installing them
> manually doesn't, as the manual install isn't setup for Gentoo
> specifically and uses different default paths and the like.  In
> particular, mixing the two, switching between emerged via portage, and
> manually installing the package as you did, is known to cause weird issues,
> as you'll be left with a strange and not very workable missmash of stuff.
> It's certainly  possible to do the same additional things the Gentoo
> ebuild does manually too, but it's the sort of thing that if you are
> asking about it, you are best off just sticking to the Gentoo solution and
> not trying to figure out how to manage it manually.  FWIW, the biggest
> problem has to do with Gentoo's eselect opengl management, which is
> something the nvidia package itself has no way of knowing about and
> therefore fixing, since it's not Gentoo specific as the eselect solution
> is.
>
> Of course, here, I purposefully bought an ATI Radeon 9200 series graphics
> card since it has free drivers.  I couldn't legally run slaveryware even if
> I wanted to, at least where EULAs are or could be considered legal, as I
> simply don't sign over the rights nearly all EULAs demand I sign over,
> viewing it much the same way I'd view an attempt to restrict my other
> basic rights, such as freedom of religion or freedom of expression.  Until
> Nvidia has decent free drivers, they don't get my money, just as current
> ATI doesn't get my money as they no longer provide drivers or specs for
> the community to code its own.  If I were upgrading now, it'd likely be to
> Intel, even tho I've been an AMD user for over a decade now, because
> Intel's integrated chipset video is the best choice for free drivers there
> is right now.  Fortunately, I'll be upgrading my existing dual Opteron to
> dual-cores soon, and won't be upgrading the system for at least two years
> after that.  By the time I /do/ upgrade, the currently beginning trend
> toward standardizing the graphics instruction set to the point it's
> basically an extension of the CPU instruction set should be well under
> way, with comparable openness as well, so freedomware graphics drivers
> making use of it should be getting rather more common.
>
> --
> Duncan - List replies preferred.   No HTML msgs.
> "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
> and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman

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