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From: Philip Webb <purslow@×××××××××.ca>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Help! Xorg broken!
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 00:40:11
Message-Id: 20061017003555.GA5829@sympatico.ca
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Help! Xorg broken! by Jeff Cranmer
1 061016 Jeff Cranmer wrote:
2 > I am running gentoo kernel 2.6.15-r1
3 > I recently updated xorg, and installed the new nvidia-drivers package.
4 > Xorg now appears to be horribly broken.
5 > The nvidia splash screen appears, then it faults out back to the command line.
6
7 I've had no problem with Xorg-x11 7.1 + Nvidia-drivers-1.0.8774 .
8 I'm using Kernel 2.6.18 , so the 1st thing to try is a kernel update.
9 Make sure you check the ACPI section when configuring it
10 & recompile the Nvidia drivers for the new kernel.
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