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On Freitag 09 Oktober 2009, Denis wrote: |
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> >> Section "Device" |
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> >> Identifier "Card0" |
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> >> Driver "nvidia" |
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> >> VendorName "nVidia Corporation" |
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> >> BoardName "GeForce 7300 LE" |
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> >> BusID "PCI:1:0:0" |
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> >> Option "UseEdidDpi" "FALSE" |
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> |
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> ==== why? ===== |
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> |
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> >> # Option "DPI" "100 x 100" |
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> >> EndSection |
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> Sorry - what was that "why?" referring to? I think I put those |
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> options in when I was working on anti-aliasing the fonts to make them |
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> look smooth. That still works. |
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> > 1.6.3.901 |
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> > is - lets just say you should either use 1.6.3 or 1.6.4 |
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> > and what about your driver version? |
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> > and why 2.6.27? that kernel is acient! |
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> Well, I used 1.6.3.901-r2 because that's what the portage pulled in |
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> when I did emerge -NDavu world. Portage tree seems to have options to |
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> use 1.6.4, but it was not pulled in by emerge, so maybe it is masked |
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> or keyworded? |
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> The kernel... Well, I am guilty of not keeping up on kernel updates |
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> because restarting the machine for each upgrade isn't always an option |
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> with my work. Do you think this version of the kernel may contribute |
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> to X instability? |
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i am saying that you should try the latest kernel with the latest driver for |
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your card |
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