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On 11:36 Tue 02 Oct, Alexander Skwar wrote |
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> Hello. |
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> When X.Org 1.4 first hit the portage tree, I masked it, as I had quite |
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> some problems getting it to work work with my Nvidia graphics "card". |
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> I decided to stay with 1.3.0.0 for the time being. |
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Yeah, that was due to an ABI change in the new X.org version. The binary NVidia |
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drivers had to be recompiled - by NVidia, unfortunately. |
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> Now x11-base/xorg-server-1.4-r2 is in the tree. And also a new version |
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> of nvidia-drivers (nvidia-drivers-100.14.19). |
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The new X.org server versions still block old releases of the NVidia drivers for |
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the same reason, however, as NVidia have updated their drivers to match the new |
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X.org ABI, it _should_ be safe to upgrade now (but keep in mind that you have to |
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upgrade both packages). |
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My Laptop's doing fine with the new X.org version and NVidia drivers. Afaik, the |
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only problem was the ABI - but there are some guys at nvnews that seem to not be |
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content with the new driver version. Most of them seem to use graphical effects |
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though. |
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As every single one of NVidia's releases, this one seems to have its own |
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problems... but for me it's very sable. |
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Aleks |
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