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From: Dave S <gentoo@××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Help I have b0rked my system :(
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 18:34:00
Message-Id: 42CD742E.1060903@pusspaws.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Help I have b0rked my system :( by Dave S
1 Dave S wrote:
2
3 >Ed Jabbour wrote:
4 >
5 >
6 >
7 >>On Thursday 07 July 2005 02:40 am, Dave S wrote:
8 >>
9 >>
10 >>
11 >>
12 >>
13 >>>>...what about xcompmanager (or whatever it's called)? Is that possibly
14 >>>>running?
15 >>>>
16 >>>>Holly
17 >>>>
18 >>>>
19 >>>>
20 >>>>
21 >>>You could be right, Im going out to work now but I tried changing
22 >>>'nvidia' to 'nv' in xorg.conf and everyting returned to normal, I
23 >>>re-emerged nvidia-glx + nvidia-kernel, re-booted, re-tryed 'nvidia' and
24 >>>wierdness returned.
25 >>>
26 >>>Haven't got any more time but will look at it this evening ...
27 >>>
28 >>>
29 >>>
30 >>>
31 >>If you emerged the nvidia stuff, you got the newest versions. Do you have
32 >>the RIVA TNT2 by any chance? If so, portage now has 1.0.7664, which acc/to
33 >>NVidia is not compatible with the TNT2. I use 7174, which works fine. This
34 >>would explain why nv works, but nvidia doesn't, and also why your X used to
35 >>work, but doesn't now.
36 >>
37 >>--
38 >>Ed Jabbour
39 >>
40 >>
41 >>
42 >>
43 >Strangley my video card is a RIVA TNT2 :)
44 >
45 >I checked Nvidias website, apparently TNT2 is OK with *1.0-7667 so I
46 >will give it a go.
47 >
48 >Thanks for the tip, I will let you know how it goes
49 >
50 >Dave
51 >*
52 >
53 >
54
55 Er didn't work, tried 7174 as you suggest, :-) :-) :-) AOK
56
57 Dave
58
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