[gentoo-dev] nVidia - documentation addendum

[Denis Shcherbakov]

Guys,

never mind the email I sent earlier regarding nVidia drivers.  I found
Christian Zander's document in English on your site, and I contacted him.
He told me that turning off rivafb framebuffer support in the kernel helps
resolve the error in initializing NVdriver module.  So I turned it off,
and without this framebuffer, X came up at a good resolution, like it
should have.

If you recall, I was getting module initialization error for NVdriver
kernel module, which was breaking the "nvidia" in X.

So, in your Desktop Configuration Guide, where you talk about setting up
X, and talk about an addendum for NVIDIA owners (Code listings 8 thru 10),
PLEASE add an "Important" or a "Warning" that X will probably not start
with the new NVIDIA drivers, unless rivafb framebuffer support in the
kernel is disabled.  Either the module should be removed, or, if rivafb
support is compiled into the kernel, it can be turned off using
"video=riva:off" as one of the kernel boot parameters.

I lost some sleep over this, so if you add this, it might save other
Nvidia users some time.

Christian's credit for communicating the solution of this to me.

Best,
Denis