| 1 |
Solved/ |
| 2 |
|
| 3 |
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
| 4 |
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
| 5 |
>> Hi, |
| 6 |
>> Will that combination work? |
| 7 |
>> |
| 8 |
>> I'm having trouble finding the right combination of kernel, |
| 9 |
>> nvidia-driver and xorg-server for a remote machine. |
| 10 |
>> |
| 11 |
>> The machine was running xorg-server-1.5 with 2.6.29-gentoo-r4 and |
| 12 |
>> nvidia-drivers-96.43.09. So far when I try to use the newer |
| 13 |
>> xorg-server-1.6 it seems to not like that kernel and when I use a |
| 14 |
>> newer kernel it doesn't like that nvidia-driver. When I try to update |
| 15 |
>> the driver I get messages along the line of this VGA not being |
| 16 |
>> supported by the newer driver. |
| 17 |
>> |
| 18 |
>> Where do I find info on what kernels are required for |
| 19 |
>> xorg-server-1.6 and then what drivers are supporting this device? |
| 20 |
>> |
| 21 |
>> Thanks, |
| 22 |
>> Mark |
| 23 |
>> |
| 24 |
> As a follow-up I found this page at NVidia: |
| 25 |
> |
| 26 |
> http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_32667.html |
| 27 |
> |
| 28 |
> The device is listed in the second group - driver-1.0-96xx driver. Is |
| 29 |
> that by any chance the same as the "nvidia-drivers-96.43.xx" package? |
| 30 |
> |
| 31 |
> If so how do I determine what kernel and xorg-server that will work with? |
| 32 |
> |
| 33 |
> Thanks, |
| 34 |
> Mark |
| 35 |
> |
Archives