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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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> > 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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Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@g.o> |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc) |