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On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>> On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 14:42:50 -0500, Dale wrote: |
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>>> Yea, done tried that. I tried different kernels, different nvidia |
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>>> drivers and all with no change. |
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>> WAG - have you tried the nv drivers? |
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> I did but I couldn't get X to even start. I guess something is not set |
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> right somewhere. I have nv in make.conf and been there since I built this |
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> thing so sort of clueless on why it don't work. |
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> Maybe it's because I don't use the latest greatest cards but I don't think I |
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> have ever really had trouble with nvidia drivers. Surely it can't be good |
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> luck. ;-) |
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> While I am at it, what is the syntax to mask a package higher than a certain |
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> version in package.mask? I tired =>package.name.version and tried >= |
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> package.name.version but the former doesn't work and seems to ignore it and |
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> the later makes emerge print a boo boo message. On my old rig, I want to |
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> mask anything above the 173 series. So far, I haven't had the light bulb |
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> moment and never can remember how to do this. |
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> Thanks. |
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> Dale |
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May I ask exactly what NVidia card you are using and why you are using |
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(if I understood you correctly) the nv driver and not the nvidia |
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driver? |
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This page at NVidia will point you at the right driver. I've got a |
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little bit of every NVidia technology here and they haven't treated me |
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wrong yet. |
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http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us |
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My make.conf files all say |
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VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" |
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and then I typically use the beta driver ala: |
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mark@slinky ~ $ cat /etc/portage/package.keywords | grep nvidia |
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x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers ~amd64 |
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dev-util/nvidia-cuda-toolkit ~amd64 |
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dev-util/nvidia-cuda-sdk ~amd64 |
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mark@slinky ~ $ |
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You won't need the CUDAstuff. |
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It's always the NVidia driver in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, not the older nv driver: |
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mark@slinky ~ $ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep nvidia |
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Driver "nvidia" |
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mark@slinky ~ $ |
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- Mark |
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