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Dale asks: |
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> Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>> On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 06:41:31 -0500, Dale wrote: |
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>>> I have not been able to get the nv drivers to work. It has been so |
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>>> long since I had to use them, it appears I have forgot how to use |
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>>> them. I'm not sure I have ever used them since I been using Gentoo. I |
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>>> found the link on the xorg site. It wasn't very useful for me. I do |
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>>> have xf86-video-nv installed tho. I thought that was it. However, |
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>>> when I change the driver in xorg.conf to nv, no more GUI. |
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>> Instead of editing xorg.conf, move it out of the way and let X figure |
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>> things out for itself. |
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>> You could also try the VESA drivers, slow but reliable. |
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> OK. How do I do the VESA drivers? |
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Add 'vesa' to your VIDEO_CARDS variable in make.conf, then emerge |
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-DautvN xorg-drivers. And change the Driver in xorg.conf from 'nvidia' |
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to 'vesa'. |
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