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From: Morgan Christiansson <sft3905@××××××××××××.se>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] new nvidia ebuild
Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2001 17:18:47
Message-Id: 3BC0E2C4.6050507@post.netlink.se
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] new nvidia ebuild by Aron Griffis
1 It worked great for me, even TV-out worked.
2
3 I was running GNOME on my TV, ain't that cool? :)
4
5 just had to add:
6 Option "ConnectedMonitor" "TV"
7
8 There's some hardware mouse shading stuff too but i haven't checked that
9 out as it requires restarting X and i don't want all my precious apps to
10 die :/
11
12
13 Aron Griffis wrote:
14
15 > Hi Daniel,
16 >
17 > Daniel Robbins wrote: [Sat Oct 06 2001, 10:18:14AM EST]
18 >
19 >>This ebuild contains the latest accelerated nvidia drivers and OpenGL
20 >>1.2 implementation, as well as a devfs patch. To use them, exit X,
21 >>emerge this package, and then configure /etc/X11/XF86Config
22 >>appropriately (basically just change the "Device" "driver" setting to
23 >>"nvidia"). Then load the NVdriver kernel module, start X and you
24 >>should have very fast, rock-solid accelerated video under XFree86.
25 >>
26 >
27 > I don't have an nvidia card, but this ebuild brings up an interesting
28 > question. I have attempted to emerge glibc a couple times, only to have
29 > it bomb out at the end because I was currently running X. Couldn't
30 > these ebuilds test for X before actually starting unpack/compile?
31 >
32 > Aron
33 >
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38 >
39 > .
40 >
41 >

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Re: [gentoo-dev] new nvidia ebuild Djamil ESSAISSI <djamil@××××××××××××.com>