Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Ferris McCormick <fmccor@g.o>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] nvidia masking help
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:53:28
Message-Id: 1153936286.19525.82.camel@liasis.inforead.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] nvidia masking help by "Dice R. Random"
1 On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 09:26 -0700, Dice R. Random wrote:
2 > On 7/26/06, Ferris McCormick <fmccor@g.o> wrote:
3 > > Here is a working combination (for me), assuming modular-X:
4 > > nvidia-[glx,kernel]-1.0.8762
5 > > x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.2-r7
6 > > x11-base/xorg-x11-7.0-r1
7 > > virtual/x11-7.0-r2
8 > >
9 > > Notice that nvidia-glx-1.0.8762 contains an explicit RDEPEND for
10 > > !>=x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.99
11 > > and the combination nvidia-glx-<anything> and xorg-server-1.1.<anything>
12 > > will fail. With -1.1, the server/driver interface changed, and last I
13 > > knew, the nvidia driver has not caught up. Notice also that after
14 > > installing xorg-server, you might have to
15 > > eselect opengl set nvidia
16 > > by hand (I do, but haven't bothered tracking down why).
17 >
18 > You don't see any weird font rendering problems with this combination?
19 > I've been using nvidia-glx on xorg-server-1.0.x but I've had problems
20 > with font rendering off and on. From reading the bug reports on b.g.o
21 > I think that's the manner in which the ABI mismatch typically
22 > manifests itself.
23
24 I haven't noticed any rendering problems, but that doesn't mean there
25 aren't any. I can be pretty unaware of such things at times.
26
27 Regards,
28 Ferris
29 --
30 Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@g.o>
31 Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc)

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] nvidia masking help Mike Doty <kingtaco@g.o>