home bbs files messages ]

Forums before death by AOL, social media and spammers... "We can't have nice things"

   alt.os.linux.gentoo      Stupid OS you gotta compile EVERYTHING      17,684 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 15,794 of 17,684   
   AZ Nomad to J.O. Aho   
   Re: nvidia-drivers versus xorg.server   
   11 Sep 07 13:05:26   
   
   From: aznomad.2@PremoveOBthisOX.COM   
      
   On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 06:37:49 +0200, J.O. Aho  wrote:   
      
      
   >AZ Nomad wrote:   
   >> nvidia-drivers now blocks xorg-server-1.4   
   >> What gives?  Has nvidia-drivers been pulled into xorg-server?   
   >> Do I have to quit using a portage package to install the nvidia drivers and   
   >> instead should get the nvidia .run installer from nvidia directly?   
      
   >Xorg 7.3 has changed ABI, which makes that the current nVidia driver won't   
   >work with the new Xorg.   
      
   >You can of course force the install and then you need to disable composite in   
   >your xorg.conf and then use "startx -- -ignoreABI" to start Xorg, but be   
   >warned, this won't work for all.   
      
   I'd prefer being able to use KDE.  Anybody know where the fuck the startx   
   script for kde has been burried?  I killed an hour last night trying to   
   find where I could stick '-ignoreABI'.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca