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Nicola wrote: |
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> Hi! |
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> Somebody out there try to set up the latest xorg server (and all the ~x86 |
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> dependency) the latest nvidia driver and compiz? |
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> I would like to try, but my latest attempt three weeks ago caused same crazy |
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> problems (X didn't start at all), and I am not so crazy to do the same |
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> mistake twice in a row, without some prior advices. Well in my latest attempt |
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> I used xorg 1.4.2 and 173.14 nvidia drivers (I don't like Marked beta |
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> software). |
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After more hours than I like to think about without X, found a warning in: |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=238969 |
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> ------- Comment #13 From Dan Coats 2008-10-10 14:47:42 0000 [reply] ------- |
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> on a side note, nvidia-drivers ebuilds should now warn that backingstore |
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> should be set to false or not specified in xorg.conf at all now. kde4 will bail out with backingstore enabled. |
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Commenting out the BackingStore option fixed my problem with KDE 4.1.2 |
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crashing on logging in. |
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Also I was finally successful in using the latest version of HAL, so |
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that was not the problem. |
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The only other gotcha I'm looking into is that KDE 3.5.10 recently |
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disappeared on my system, leaving just KDE 4.1.2 available. |
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HTH, |
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Roy |
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