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From: Djamil ESSAISSI <djamil@××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] new nvidia ebuild
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 03:44:04
Message-Id: 20011008115335.5ac0a6a7.djamil@francexpress.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] new nvidia ebuild by Morgan Christiansson
1 yo i sticked my voodoo3 card back in the win98 box to play CS, and the nvidia back to the linux box, man i'm impressed ! the nvidia actually works better under linux ! where CS crashed non stop with it .
2 but tell me , the TV-out does it work under all resolutions/frequencies ? i'll be surprised if it does ! so does it ?
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4 peace and grutz
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6 On Mon, 08 Oct 2001 01:18:28 +0200
7 Morgan Christiansson <sft3905@××××××××××××.se> wrote:
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9 :)It worked great for me, even TV-out worked.
10 :)
11 :)I was running GNOME on my TV, ain't that cool? :)
12 :)
13 :)just had to add:
14 :)Option "ConnectedMonitor" "TV"
15 :)
16 :)There's some hardware mouse shading stuff too but i haven't checked that
17 :)out as it requires restarting X and i don't want all my precious apps to
18 :)die :/
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21 :)Aron Griffis wrote:
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23 :)> Hi Daniel,
24 :)>
25 :)> Daniel Robbins wrote: [Sat Oct 06 2001, 10:18:14AM EST]
26 :)>
27 :)>>This ebuild contains the latest accelerated nvidia drivers and OpenGL
28 :)>>1.2 implementation, as well as a devfs patch. To use them, exit X,
29 :)>>emerge this package, and then configure /etc/X11/XF86Config
30 :)>>appropriately (basically just change the "Device" "driver" setting to
31 :)>>"nvidia"). Then load the NVdriver kernel module, start X and you
32 :)>>should have very fast, rock-solid accelerated video under XFree86.
33 :)>>
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35 :)> I don't have an nvidia card, but this ebuild brings up an interesting
36 :)> question. I have attempted to emerge glibc a couple times, only to
37 :)have
38 :)> it bomb out at the end because I was currently running X. Couldn't
39 :)> these ebuilds test for X before actually starting unpack/compile?
40 :)>
41 :)> Aron
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Re: [gentoo-dev] new nvidia ebuild Dan Armak <danarmak@g.o>