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Ferris McCormick wrote: |
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> On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 09:26 -0700, Dice R. Random wrote: |
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>> On 7/26/06, Ferris McCormick <fmccor@g.o> wrote: |
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>>> Here is a working combination (for me), assuming modular-X: |
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>>> nvidia-[glx,kernel]-1.0.8762 |
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>>> x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.2-r7 |
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>>> x11-base/xorg-x11-7.0-r1 |
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>>> virtual/x11-7.0-r2 |
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>>> |
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>>> Notice that nvidia-glx-1.0.8762 contains an explicit RDEPEND for |
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>>> !>=x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.99 |
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>>> and the combination nvidia-glx-<anything> and xorg-server-1.1.<anything> |
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>>> will fail. With -1.1, the server/driver interface changed, and last I |
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>>> knew, the nvidia driver has not caught up. Notice also that after |
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>>> installing xorg-server, you might have to |
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>>> eselect opengl set nvidia |
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>>> by hand (I do, but haven't bothered tracking down why). |
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>> You don't see any weird font rendering problems with this combination? |
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>> I've been using nvidia-glx on xorg-server-1.0.x but I've had problems |
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>> with font rendering off and on. From reading the bug reports on b.g.o |
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>> I think that's the manner in which the ABI mismatch typically |
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>> manifests itself. |
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> I haven't noticed any rendering problems, but that doesn't mean there |
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> aren't any. I can be pretty unaware of such things at times. |
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> Regards, |
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> Ferris |
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xorg changed the font ABI in 7.1, which is incompatable with current |
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binary drivers. for nvidia, the most notable thing is the inability to |
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use bitmap fonts. if you can live without them, then 7.1 should work fine. |
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