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On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Sunday 17 May 2009 19:10:05 bn wrote: |
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>> Dale ha scritto: |
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>> > I hope someone wins the debate soon and gets this to work and be "user |
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>> > friendly". I'm about to make a fresh backup and try this again. I have |
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>> > upgraded my kernel to a really new version, 2.6.25. Sorry, nvidia won't |
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>> > compile with anything newer that I have tried. |
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>> Uh? last nvidia-drivers needs 2.6.25 kernel? |
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> Dale has an old video card and needs one of the nvidia legacy driver releases. |
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> He finds that that release doesn't work with kernels after .25 |
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Humm....now I'm getting interested. I just did an emerge -DuN world to |
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my dad's machine in Southern California last night. He's got a 6 year |
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old machine with an old nvidia card that's no longer supported by the |
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newest drivers so the emerge messages tell me that I have to use an |
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older legacy version of the driver. Thing is I have him on |
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gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r4 using nvidia-drivers-96.43.09. Everything |
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seems to be working from here. I see the driver in memory. I Can run X |
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apps remotely. |
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gandalf ~ # uname -a |
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Linux gandalf 2.6.29-gentoo-r4 #3 PREEMPT Sun May 17 06:58:58 PDT 2009 |
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i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux |
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gandalf ~ # |
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gandalf ~ # emerge -pv nvidia-drivers |
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These are the packages that would be merged, in order: |
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Calculating dependencies... done! |
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[ebuild R ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-96.43.09 USE="acpi gtk |
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-custom-cflags (-multilib)" 0 kB |
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Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB |
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gandalf ~ # |
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I guess my question is whether he's going to have issues. He's really |
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bad about reporting this stuff to me and I'm not there to see the |
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screen or use the system. |
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I don't see much in /var/log/Xorg.0.log other than a complaint about |
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GLX and freetype. freetype I can fix. GLX I haven't looked into. |
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Any problems? |
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Thanks, |
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Mark |
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