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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: X segfault with nvidia-drivers-295.40 on GT520
Date: Thu, 03 May 2012 17:02:00
Message-Id: jnudii$4c6$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X segfault with nvidia-drivers-295.40 on GT520 by Raffaele BELARDI
1 On 03/05/12 18:18, Raffaele BELARDI wrote:
2 > On 05/03/2012 04:45 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
3 >>> thanks, but I'd rather keep that as a last option because I have no
4 >>> guarantee of success with the 302.07 driver.
5 >>
6 >> There are no guarantees in life. Only wasted time, which in this case
7 >> amounts to 5-8 minutes for copying/editing and emerging. If you even
8 >> need a guarantee even for not losing 8 minutes of your time, then I
9 >> don't know :-/
10 >
11 > You are right, it might be a quick solution if it works.
12 > What kernel and xorg-server version are you running with 302.07?
13
14 Latest versions available on ~amd64. So that's kernel 3.3.4 and
15 xorg-server 1.12.1.
16
17 Remember that for nvidia-settings, you need to delete (or comment-out)
18 the two patch lines after you copy the ebuild:
19
20 epatch "${FILESDIR}/0001-Makefile-improvements.patch"
21 epatch "${FILESDIR}/0002-Build-libNVCtrl-with-PIC.patch"