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>>> is there any reason not to try drver version 8756? |
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>>> 6629 is very old. very, very old. Even older. It is old. |
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>> As I said, all other available versions in portage didn't compile or |
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>> load afterwards. Only one version (other than 6629, one of the 1.0.7...) |
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>> did both successfully but crashed when starting X. |
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> I ran into the same problem after upgrading the kernel to |
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> gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3. |
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> And don't have any problems with most recent nvidia drivers: |
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> media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.8756 |
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> media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.8756 |
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> media-video/nvidia-settings-1.0.20051122-r3 |
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> Did you rebuild nvidia-glx and all the dependencies? |
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Also you have to explicitly add the Modes you need |
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to Display SubSection in /etc/X11/xorg.conf |
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if you didn't already. As X doesn't build |
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a pool of available modes with this newer driver |
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and gets stuck in "nvidia-auto-select" mode: |
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/usr/share/doc/nvidia-kernel-1.0.8756/README.gz |
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