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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: NVidia setup instructions?
Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 17:09:28
Message-Id: 4A01BE08.2070906@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: NVidia setup instructions? by 7v5w7go9ub0o <7v5w7go9ub0o@gmail.com>
1 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote:
2 >
3 >
4 > FWICT, NVidia 180.51 appears to be working on this box without the
5 > consolekit.
6 >
7 > "# glxinfo | grep direct
8 > direct rendering: Yes
9 > GL_EXT_depth_bounds_test, GL_EXT_direct_state_access,"
10 >
11 > nvidia is masked on my hardened overlay/AMD64; on a lark tried the ".run"
12 > script available at the nvidia site.
13 >
14 > HTH
15 >
16 >
17
18 Don't know if this info will help or not but while consolekit is
19 installed, the service is not running on my box. I have a older FX-5200
20 card that works well for me.
21
22 root@smoker / # equery list nvidia
23 [ Searching for package 'nvidia' in all categories among: ]
24 * installed packages
25 [I--] [ ] media-video/nvidia-settings-180.29 (0)
26 [I--] [ ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.09 (0)
27 root@smoker / #
28
29 Also note, this is the latest that will work on my card. I think it is
30 the ONLY version of driver that works with this card.
31
32 Dale
33
34 :-) :-)