Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Brian Litzinger <brian@××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Nvidia drivers not workin'
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 16:45:15
Message-Id: 20060517164154.GA31514@localhost.worldcontrol.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] Nvidia drivers not workin' by giovanni iaboni
1 On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 01:10:51PM +0200, giovanni iaboni wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 > I have searched extensively and have not found anything related to my
4 > question, but I apologize if it has been discussed here before.
5 > After installing Nvidia drivers (modular xorg-x11), I cannot obtain them
6 > working: follows the end of Xorg.0.log
7 >
8 > [cut]
9 > Backtrace:
10 > 0: X(xf86SigHandler+0xc5) [0x473662]
11 > 1: /lib/libc.so.6 [0x39dff30280]
12 > 2: [0x96c12f]
13
14 I am guessing, but there was a recent change in the ABI that breaks
15 nvidia binary drivers.
16
17 You can use the 'nv' driver.
18
19 You can downgrade to an earlier version of the xorg-server. I
20 think x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.2-r4 is early enough.
21
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