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Alex Schuster wrote: |
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> Dale asks: |
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>> Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>>> On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 06:41:31 -0500, Dale wrote: |
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>>>> I have not been able to get the nv drivers to work. It has been so |
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>>>> long since I had to use them, it appears I have forgot how to use |
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>>>> them. I'm not sure I have ever used them since I been using Gentoo. I |
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>>>> found the link on the xorg site. It wasn't very useful for me. I do |
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>>>> have xf86-video-nv installed tho. I thought that was it. However, |
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>>>> when I change the driver in xorg.conf to nv, no more GUI. |
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>>> Instead of editing xorg.conf, move it out of the way and let X figure |
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>>> things out for itself. |
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>>> You could also try the VESA drivers, slow but reliable. |
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>> OK. How do I do the VESA drivers? |
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> Add 'vesa' to your VIDEO_CARDS variable in make.conf, then emerge |
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> -DautvN xorg-drivers. And change the Driver in xorg.conf from 'nvidia' |
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> to 'vesa'. |
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> Wonko |
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Thanks. I remembered after hitting reply to set it in make.conf. I got |
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some done anyway. I'll report back what blows up. O_O |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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