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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: was [gentoo-user] Re: New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 now old nvidia drivers
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 04:22:16
Message-Id: 4A10E271.5060805@gmail.com
In Reply to: was [gentoo-user] Re: New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 now old nvidia drivers by Adam Carter
1 Adam Carter wrote:
2 > For you guys with older hardware/drivers, have you tried turning on CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS and recompiling the kernel to see if its helps? (Kernel hacking -> Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols).
3 >
4 > I use it to support vmware server 1.x and ati flgrx drivers (with 2.6.26 or later kernels). IIRC my home machine is an IGP 440 MX running 2.6.28 (not sure of driver version off the top of my head, maybe masked to ?97?) but its working fine.
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9 That is a good find. I can't say that it is the problem but it was not
10 enabled on my kernel but it is now. I'll try to test this later on as
11 well. This sounds like what the error was reporting it couldn't find.
12 This could work.
13
14 Thanks.
15
16 Dale
17
18 :-) :-)

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RE: was [gentoo-user] Re: New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 now old nvidia drivers Adam Carter <Adam.Carter@×××××××××.au>