Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers vs. nouveau

2012-04-12 Thread ny6p01
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 09:09:16AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:36:06 -0500 Canek Pel?ez Vald?s can...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 11.04.2012 23:16, schrieb ny6...@gmail.com: I use the

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers vs. nouveau

2012-04-12 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 3:06 AM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: What's the difference (in performance) between fglrx and xf86-video-ati ? My experience with my first and only ATI video card (a Mobility Radeon 9700), is that the opensource drivers for my chipset are basically

[gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers vs. nouveau

2012-04-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Just being curious: I use my main workstation primarily for work. Ok, gnome3 needs some graphic acceleration, aside from that I can only think of the occasional mythfrontend running on my desktop. I consider to chose nouveau drivers instead of the nvidia-drivers-package. What are your

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers vs. nouveau

2012-04-11 Thread ny6p01
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 10:38:50PM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Just being curious: I use my main workstation primarily for work. Ok, gnome3 needs some graphic acceleration, aside from that I can only think of the occasional mythfrontend running on my desktop. I consider to

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers vs. nouveau

2012-04-11 Thread Alecks Gates
The only reason I really use nvidia-drivers is because of VDPAU. Otherwise I can't watch HD videos on my media center. VDPAU works great, and I hope nouveau supports it or something equivalent eventually. Mythtv probably uses it, though that's just a guess. Alecks Gates, sent from Android on

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers vs. nouveau

2012-04-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.04.2012 23:16, schrieb ny6...@gmail.com: I use the nouveau drivers because they update themselves when you update the kernel, and there's less work involved in keeping everything up to date. But I can't comment on the nvidia drivers since I've never tried them. Nouveau works well enough

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers vs. nouveau

2012-04-11 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 11.04.2012 23:16, schrieb ny6...@gmail.com: I use the nouveau drivers because they update themselves when you update the kernel, and there's less work involved in keeping everything up to date. But I can't comment

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia-drivers: Sync problem ???

2010-12-18 Thread Dale
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, For my MSI GT430 (nvidia) graphics card I am using the x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-260.19.29. But there seems to be something wrong: When playing videos with faster movements I see heavy distortions around these parts of the screen. Previously I fixed this for

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia-drivers: Sync problem ???

2010-12-18 Thread meino . cramer
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com [10-12-18 09:52]: meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, For my MSI GT430 (nvidia) graphics card I am using the x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-260.19.29. But there seems to be something wrong: When playing videos with faster movements I see heavy distortions around these

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia-drivers: Sync problem ???

2010-12-18 Thread Dale
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi Dale, thank you for your in deep explanations ! :) The distortions I saw on my screen look identical to those I recognizeed with my old nvidia card before using the sync settings...so i /thought/ (read: dont know for sure ;) ) it would by a syncing problem again.

[gentoo-user] NVidia-drivers: Sync problem ???

2010-12-17 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, For my MSI GT430 (nvidia) graphics card I am using the x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-260.19.29. But there seems to be something wrong: When playing videos with faster movements I see heavy distortions around these parts of the screen. Previously I fixed this for another nvidia card by

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers conflicts

2010-04-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 24 April 2010 12:56:13 Peter Humphrey wrote: Let's hope the upgrade is a simple one for the Gentoo devs to incorporate into an ebuild. With any luck we'll have it in the next week. Indeed, it has appeared today: $ equery l nvidia-drivers * Searching for nvidiadrivers ... [IP-] [

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers conflicts

2010-04-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 24 April 2010 01:22:53 Peter Ruskin wrote: On Saturday 24 April 2010 00:08:46 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, before getting into too much trouble better I aask: While updateing I got the following message: ('ebuild', '/', 'x11-base/xorg-server-1.8.0', 'merge')

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers conflicts

2010-04-24 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 24 April 2010 10:46:17 Alan McKinnon wrote: The happy news is that nvidia released a driver with xorg-1.8 support on 23 Apr: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=150325 Good news! Let's hope the upgrade is a simple one for the Gentoo devs to incorporate into an

[gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers conflicts

2010-04-23 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, before getting into too much trouble better I aask: While updateing I got the following message: ('ebuild', '/', 'x11-base/xorg-server-1.8.0', 'merge') conflicts with x11-base/xorg-server-1.7.99 required by ('installed', '/', 'x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-195.36.15',

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers conflicts

2010-04-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 24 April 2010 01:08:46 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, before getting into too much trouble better I aask: While updateing I got the following message: ('ebuild', '/', 'x11-base/xorg-server-1.8.0', 'merge') conflicts with x11-base/xorg-server-1.7.99 required by

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers problem on xorg 1.6.3.901-r2

2009-11-16 Thread Arnau Bria
On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:29:09 +0930 Iain Buchanan wrote: Hi, In my experience, various nvidia-drivers just seem to not work with my system, no matter how many times I rebuild and recheck things. I have a whole bunch of versions masked. Looking back, I never seemed to have a problem with

[gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers problem on xorg 1.6.3.901-r2

2009-11-12 Thread Arnau Bria
Hi all, I've rebuild my xorg-server with no hal support, I've upgraded my kernel to 2.6.30-r8 and rebuild all xf86 drivers/libs/proto packages: # eix xf86|grep ^\[I\] [I] x11-apps/xf86dga [I] x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev [I] x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard [I] x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse [I]

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers problem on xorg 1.6.3.901-r2

2009-11-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Arnau Bria writes: I've rebuild my xorg-server with no hal support, I've upgraded my kernel to 2.6.30-r8 and rebuild all xf86 drivers/libs/proto packages: [...] Then, I use nvidia-xconf for geenrating my xorg.conf file and looks like: [...] Section Device Identifier VGA

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers problem on xorg 1.6.3.901-r2

2009-11-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 12 November 2009 14:34:00 Arnau Bria wrote: Hi all, I've rebuild my xorg-server with no hal support, I've upgraded my kernel to 2.6.30-r8 and rebuild all xf86 drivers/libs/proto packages: # eix xf86|grep ^\[I\] [I] x11-apps/xf86dga [I] x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev [I]

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers problem on xorg 1.6.3.901-r2

2009-11-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 12 November 2009 14:33:22 Alex Schuster wrote: # grep EE Xorg.0.log to load module freetype (module does not exist, 0) to load module dri (module does not exist, 0) to load module dri2 (module does not exist, 0) I read something here about dri and dri2 some days ago, but

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers problem on xorg 1.6.3.901-r2

2009-11-12 Thread Arnau Bria
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:33:22 +0100 Alex Schuster wrote: Arnau Bria writes: [...] Section Device Identifier VGA Driver nvidia VendorName Unknown BoardName Unknown EndSection I would expect vesa to be quite slow. I don't know about nvidia-xconf

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers problem on xorg 1.6.3.901-r2

2009-11-12 Thread Arnau Bria
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:57:28 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 12 November 2009 14:33:22 Alex Schuster wrote: # grep EE Xorg.0.log to load module freetype (module does not exist, 0) to load module dri (module does not exist, 0) to load module dri2 (module does not exist, 0)

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers problem on xorg 1.6.3.901-r2

2009-11-12 Thread Arnau Bria
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:56:08 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: According to this, you did not rebuild nvidia-drivers. Either I did, but did not mention... sorry. emerge nvidia-drivers module-rebuild rebuild it only rebuilds nvidia-driver: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-180.60 Cheers, -- Arnau Bria

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers problem on xorg 1.6.3.901-r2

2009-11-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 12 November 2009 16:25:20 Arnau Bria wrote: On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:57:28 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 12 November 2009 14:33:22 Alex Schuster wrote: # grep EE Xorg.0.log to load module freetype (module does not exist, 0) to load module dri (module does not

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers problem on xorg 1.6.3.901-r2

2009-11-12 Thread Arnau Bria
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:37:21 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: [...] The ebuild outputs this elog: echo elog You must be in the video group to use the NVIDIA device elog For more info, read the docs at elog

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers problem on xorg 1.6.3.901-r2

2009-11-12 Thread Arnau Bria
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:44:48 +0100 Arnau Bria wrote: [...] will read guide again, maybe I missed some step.. nop, no missed steps. :-( -- Arnau Bria http://blog.emergetux.net Bombing for peace is like fucking for virginity

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers problem on xorg 1.6.3.901-r2

2009-11-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 15:54 +0100, Arnau Bria wrote: On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:44:48 +0100 Arnau Bria wrote: [...] will read guide again, maybe I missed some step.. nop, no missed steps. :-( In my experience, various nvidia-drivers just seem to not work with my system, no matter how many

[gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers with tuxonice-sources 2.6.31

2009-10-19 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Greets, I don't get it: I was running tuxonice-sources-2.6.31 (amd64) for a while now and had unmasked nvidia-drivers at kernel-change to get nvidia-drivers-190.36 back then. That worked fine so far. At that time I had gcc-4.4.1, btw. 2 days ago I did some changes, got gcc-4.4.2 and also new

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers with tuxonice-sources 2.6.31

2009-10-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 19 October 2009 10:18:28 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Greets, I don't get it: I was running tuxonice-sources-2.6.31 (amd64) for a while now and had unmasked nvidia-drivers at kernel-change to get nvidia-drivers-190.36 back then. That worked fine so far. At that time I had

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers with tuxonice-sources 2.6.31

2009-10-19 Thread Steffen Loos
Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb: Greets, I don't get it: I was running tuxonice-sources-2.6.31 (amd64) for a while now and had unmasked nvidia-drivers at kernel-change to get nvidia-drivers-190.36 back then. That worked fine so far. At that time I had gcc-4.4.1, btw. 2 days ago I did some

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers with tuxonice-sources 2.6.31

2009-10-19 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Alan McKinnon schrieb: Rebuild your kernel and the nvidia modules with the same compiler. You are using a kernel built with an older compiler and nvidia modules built with a newer compiler. nvidia doesn't like that. Thanks, Alan (and Steffen with the same hint): Rebuilt both with

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers [SOLVED]

2009-10-08 Thread Hung Dang
Thanks a lot Volker. I can emerge nvidia-drivers after resync. Hung Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Donnerstag 08 Oktober 2009, Hung Dang wrote: Hi all, I updated my system yesterday today and find out that the latest nvidia-drivers requires old glbc version 2.5. I have goggled for a

[gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers

2009-10-07 Thread Hung Dang
Hi all, I updated my system yesterday today and find out that the latest nvidia-drivers requires old glbc version 2.5. I have goggled for a while and have not found out the solution. Below is the output of emerge command emerge -pv nvidia-drivers These are the packages that would be merged, in

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers

2009-10-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 08 Oktober 2009, Hung Dang wrote: Hi all, I updated my system yesterday today and find out that the latest nvidia-drivers requires old glbc version 2.5. I have goggled for a while and have not found out the solution. Below is the output of emerge command emerge -pv

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers-180.51 on amd64

2009-04-23 Thread Xavier Parizet
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:04:13 +0200, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 22 April 2009 23:45:19 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 22 April 2009 11:30:27 Xavier Parizet wrote: Can you repost emerge output using MAKEOPTS=-j1 to see what make command is launched. Try

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers-180.51 on amd64

2009-04-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 23 April 2009 07:43:20 Xavier Parizet wrote: I think the MAKEOPTS was not the problem, but only the make prepare... I remember to see before that sometimes, the kernel source tree is no more up-to-date with the last kernel build, so when i see that problems, the first thing to do

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers-180.51 on amd64

2009-04-22 Thread Xavier Parizet
On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:34:34 +0100, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Tuesday 21 April 2009 16:23:34 Xavier Parizet wrote: On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:07:02 +0100, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Tuesday 21 April 2009 10:56:25 Xavier Parizet wrote: I think the

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers-180.51 on amd64

2009-04-22 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 22 April 2009 08:49:19 Xavier Parizet wrote: In fact you're right, it seems that my webmail (Roundcube) add the skins/default part i saw earlier in your first post... Looking at the mail source and there is no skins/default part. Apologize :) Thanks. You had me worried for a

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers-180.51 on amd64

2009-04-22 Thread Xavier Parizet
On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:34:34 +0100, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Tuesday 21 April 2009 16:23:34 Xavier Parizet wrote: On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:07:02 +0100, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Tuesday 21 April 2009 10:56:25 Xavier Parizet wrote: I think the

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers-180.51 on amd64

2009-04-22 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 22 April 2009 11:30:27 Xavier Parizet wrote: Can you repost emerge output using MAKEOPTS=-j1 to see what make command is launched. Try also to run make prepare in your kernel source tree before. # cd /usr/src/linux # make prepare # MAKEOPTS=-j1 emerge nvidia-drivers This time it

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers-180.51 on amd64

2009-04-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 22 April 2009 23:45:19 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 22 April 2009 11:30:27 Xavier Parizet wrote: Can you repost emerge output using MAKEOPTS=-j1 to see what make command is launched. Try also to run make prepare in your kernel source tree before. # cd /usr/src/linux #

[gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers-180.51 on amd64

2009-04-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, My box is trying to upgrade nvidia-drivers to version 180.51, but I get this: Compiling source in /tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-180.51/work/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-180.51-pkg2 ... * Preparing nvidia module make -j3 -s HOSTCC=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers-180.51 on amd64

2009-04-21 Thread Xavier Parizet
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:48:11 +0100, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: Hello list, My box is trying to upgrade nvidia-drivers to version 180.51, but I get this: Compiling source in /tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-180.51/work/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-180.51-pkg2 ... *

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers-180.51 on amd64

2009-04-21 Thread Justin
Xavier Parizet schrieb: On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:57:04 +0200, Justin jus...@j-schmitz.net wrote: Peter Humphrey schrieb: Hello list, My box is trying to upgrade nvidia-drivers to version 180.51, but I get this: Compiling source in

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers-180.51 on amd64

2009-04-21 Thread Justin
Peter Humphrey schrieb: Hello list, My box is trying to upgrade nvidia-drivers to version 180.51, but I get this: Compiling source in /tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-180.51/work/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-180.51-pkg2 ... * Preparing nvidia module make -j3 -s

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers-180.51 on amd64

2009-04-21 Thread Xavier Parizet
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:57:04 +0200, Justin jus...@j-schmitz.net wrote: Peter Humphrey schrieb: Hello list, My box is trying to upgrade nvidia-drivers to version 180.51, but I get this: Compiling source in

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers-180.51 on amd64

2009-04-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 10:56:25 Xavier Parizet wrote: I think the problem is from the SYSSRC make paremeter which is set to skins/default/usr/src/linux, which seems to be invalid. Where did you get the skins part of that? It isn't in what I posted. Maybe you can check to your environment

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers-180.51 on amd64

2009-04-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 12:21:52 Justin wrote: Xavier Parizet schrieb: On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:57:04 +0200, Justin jus...@j-schmitz.net wrote: Which kernel du you use? It seems to be 2.6.29-r1 according to SYSOUT content in the portage output... Yeah that why I am asking, I had an

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers-180.51 on amd64

2009-04-21 Thread Xavier Parizet
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:07:02 +0100, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Tuesday 21 April 2009 10:56:25 Xavier Parizet wrote: I think the problem is from the SYSSRC make paremeter which is set to skins/default/usr/src/linux, which seems to be invalid. Where did you get the

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers-180.51 on amd64

2009-04-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 16:23:34 Xavier Parizet wrote: On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:07:02 +0100, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Tuesday 21 April 2009 10:56:25 Xavier Parizet wrote: I think the problem is from the SYSSRC make paremeter which is set to

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers-180.51 on amd64

2009-04-21 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: I've read the post backwards and forwards, and I've had kmail search case-insensitively for skin, and it isn't there. It wasn't there when I sent it, anyway, and grep says it isn't in the files I've attached this

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers-180.51 on amd64

2009-04-21 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: I've read the post backwards and forwards, and I've had kmail search case-insensitively for skin, and it isn't there. It wasn't there when I sent it, anyway, and grep says it isn't in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and a Geforce FX-5200 card.

2009-04-01 Thread Dale
Maximilian Bräutigam wrote: Hi Dale, currently I am runnning nvidia-drivers-173.14.15 for my FX-5600 and kernel version x86_64-2.6.27-gentoo-r8. I don't know, if the driver 173.14.15 works for you, but if it does, than kernel 2.6.27 might me a solution. kind regards, der Max I was

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and a Geforce FX-5200 card.

2009-04-01 Thread zhen
Dale wrote: zhen wrote: Hi, 5200 is also my card and I have recently tested it with latest nvidia driver - it doesn't work with latest stable kernel 2.6.27-r8. I've had to roll back to my old nv driver. Best regards, Evgeniy B. Do you, or anyone, know if this is a kernel thing or

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and a Geforce FX-5200 card.

2009-04-01 Thread Dale
zhen wrote: Hi, 5200 is also my card and I have recently tested it with latest nvidia driver - it doesn't work with latest stable kernel 2.6.27-r8. I've had to roll back to my old nv driver. Best regards, Evgeniy B. Do you, or anyone, know if this is a kernel thing or is this a nvidia

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and a Geforce FX-5200 card.

2009-04-01 Thread zhen
Hi, 5200 is also my card and I have recently tested it with latest nvidia driver - it doesn't work with latest stable kernel 2.6.27-r8. I've had to roll back to my old nv driver. Best regards, Evgeniy B. Dale wrote: Hi folks, I'm trying to upgrade to the newer kernel, namely

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and a Geforce FX-5200 card.

2009-04-01 Thread Dale
Maximilian Bräutigam wrote: Hi Dale, currently I am runnning nvidia-drivers-173.14.15 for my FX-5600 and kernel version x86_64-2.6.27-gentoo-r8. I don't know, if the driver 173.14.15 works for you, but if it does, than kernel 2.6.27 might me a solution. kind regards, der Max OK.

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and a Geforce FX-5200 card.

2009-04-01 Thread Maximilian Bräutigam
hi, are you sure that you have configured your kernel correctly according to the Gentoo Linux nVidia Guide? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml kind regards, der Max Am Mittwoch, den 01.04.2009, 05:34 -0500 schrieb Dale: Maximilian Bräutigam wrote: Hi Dale, currently I am

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and a Geforce FX-5200 card.

2009-04-01 Thread Dale
Maximilian Bräutigam wrote: hi, are you sure that you have configured your kernel correctly according to the Gentoo Linux nVidia Guide? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml kind regards, der Max Well, I copied my old config over and ran make oldconfig. I did try to boot it

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and a Geforce FX-5200 card.

2009-04-01 Thread Dale
Maximilian Bräutigam wrote: hi, are you sure that you have configured your kernel correctly according to the Gentoo Linux nVidia Guide? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml kind regards, der Max I double checked my config with the guide and it appears everything is correct.

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and a Geforce FX-5200 card.

2009-04-01 Thread KH
zhen schrieb: Hi, 5200 is also my card and I have recently tested it with latest nvidia driver - it doesn't work with latest stable kernel 2.6.27-r8. I've had to roll back to my old nv driver. Best regards, Evgeniy B. Dale wrote: Hi folks, I'm trying to upgrade to the newer kernel,

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and a Geforce FX-5200 card.

2009-04-01 Thread KH
Maximilian Bräutigam schrieb: hi, are you sure that you have configured your kernel correctly according to the Gentoo Linux nVidia Guide? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml kind regards, der Max Am Mittwoch, den 01.04.2009, 05:34 -0500 schrieb Dale: Maximilian Bräutigam

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and a Geforce FX-5200 card.

2009-04-01 Thread zhen
Maximilian Bräutigam wrote: hi, are you sure that you have configured your kernel correctly according to the Gentoo Linux nVidia Guide? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml kind regards, der Max Thank you for the reference! I've read the guide and now my combination (nvidia

[gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and a Geforce FX-5200 card.

2009-03-31 Thread Dale
Hi folks, I'm trying to upgrade to the newer kernel, namely gentoo-sources-2.6.29. It seems the drivers won't build against that kernel or the drivers that do build won't let X come up. How do I find out what drivers are compatible with what kernels and my old card? Currently, I am using

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and a Geforce FX-5200 card.

2009-03-31 Thread Maximilian Bräutigam
Hi Dale, currently I am runnning nvidia-drivers-173.14.15 for my FX-5600 and kernel version x86_64-2.6.27-gentoo-r8. I don't know, if the driver 173.14.15 works for you, but if it does, than kernel 2.6.27 might me a solution. kind regards, der Max Am Mittwoch, den 01.04.2009, 00:15 -0500

[gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers

2008-04-01 Thread James
hello, I have a couple of old 32bit amd athlon XP systems: They have very old, no longer supported nvidia cards: NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] All ebuilds that could satisfy x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers have been masked These systems are used to run jffnms, postgresql

RE: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers

2008-04-01 Thread Prado, Renato (R.)
Did you try the nv and nouveau drivers for your current card? -Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Sent: terça-feira, 1 de abril de 2008 16:11 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers hello, I have a couple of old 32bit

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers

2008-04-01 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 07:10:48PM +, James wrote: These cards were supported by the Nvidia legacy driver but now that's gone there is no support for these cards. So I guess I'd like to replace them with something that is open source on the driver, so as to keep support a long time.

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers

2008-04-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 1. April 2008, James wrote: hello, I have a couple of old 32bit amd athlon XP systems: They have very old, no longer supported nvidia cards: NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] that is not true. Both cards are still supported by nvidia drivers. The Gf2 based

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers

2008-04-01 Thread Dale
James wrote: hello, I have a couple of old 32bit amd athlon XP systems: They have very old, no longer supported nvidia cards: NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] All ebuilds that could satisfy x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers have been masked These systems are used to run jffnms,

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers

2008-04-01 Thread Neil Walker
James wrote: They have very old, no longer supported nvidia cards: NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] Utterly wrong. ;) The GeForce2 is supported by the 96.43.xx series of drivers and the FX5200 is still supported by the unified driver. :) Be lucky, Neil -- This

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers

2008-04-01 Thread Jesús Guerrero
Hello, In addition to what the people already said in this thread: Note that, even if a card doesn't work with the latest driver, it doesn't mean it's discontinued and/or unsupported. That's a complete misunderstanding. Nvidia continues developing and fixing bugs in the previous branches when

RE: [gentoo-user] nvidia drivers don't compile under kernel 2.6.24

2008-02-19 Thread Sjakie
- From: John covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: dinsdag 19 februari 2008 12:28 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] nvidia drivers don't compile under kernel 2.6.24 Hi. I tried using kernel 2.6.24-gentoo-r2 -- however the nvidia drivers version 100.14.19 complains that it is unable

RE: [gentoo-user] nvidia drivers don't compile under kernel 2.6.24

2008-02-19 Thread John covici
kernel version. You can do this with eselect kernel list and then eselect kernel set -Original Message- From: John covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: dinsdag 19 februari 2008 12:28 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] nvidia drivers don't compile under kernel

[gentoo-user] nvidia drivers don't compile under kernel 2.6.24

2008-02-19 Thread John covici
Hi. I tried using kernel 2.6.24-gentoo-r2 -- however the nvidia drivers version 100.14.19 complains that it is unable to determine the kernel version. I did some googling, but saw no solution to this problem, but it seems others are having difficulties with this also. Any assistance would be

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia drivers don't compile under kernel 2.6.24

2008-02-19 Thread Kevin
Subject: [gentoo-user] nvidia drivers don't compile under kernel 2.6.24 Hi. I tried using kernel 2.6.24-gentoo-r2 -- however the nvidia drivers version 100.14.19 complains that it is unable to determine the kernel version. I did some googling, but saw no solution

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia-drivers failing to install because kernel tree not found

2008-02-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:32:04 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: You forgot to reboot to run the new kernel That shouldn't be necessary. You can install and compile a new kernel then re-emerge nvidia-drivers before rebooting. The drivers are built for the kernel linked from /usr/src/linux, not the

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia-drivers failing to install because kernel tree not found

2008-02-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 11 February 2008, Marzan, Richard non Unisys wrote: I wonder what's happening...Is there something that I could have missed? You forgot to reboot to run the new kernel  I did reboot...more than once. Made sure uname -a corresponded to the kernel in /boot/ and to the symlink

RE: [gentoo-user] Nvidia-drivers failing to install because kernel tree not found

2008-02-11 Thread Marzan, Richard non Unisys
-Original Message- From: Alan McKinnon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 11:32 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia-drivers failing to install because kernel tree not found On Monday 11 February 2008, Marzan, Richard non

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia-drivers failing to install because kernel tree not found

2008-02-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 11 February 2008, Marzan, Richard non Unisys wrote: I recently read an article at planet.gentoo.org about a 2 serious bugs in the kernel that could lead to someone crashing or rooting a system with linux kernels prior to gentoo-sources-2.6.23-r2. So being the paranoid one that I am,

[gentoo-user] Nvidia-drivers failing to install because kernel tree not found

2008-02-11 Thread Marzan, Richard non Unisys
I recently read an article at planet.gentoo.org about a 2 serious bugs in the kernel that could lead to someone crashing or rooting a system with linux kernels prior to gentoo-sources-2.6.23-r2. So being the paranoid one that I am, I unmasked this ebuild and installed it. I performed a `make

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia-drivers stopped working

2007-08-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag, 6. August 2007, Ernie Schroder wrote: On Sunday 05 August 2007, a tiny voice compelled Volker Armin Hemmann to write: NO! The newer drivers build but warn of MTRR support lacking on my card. and you have checked that you have mtrr support in the kernel? first thing ;)

[gentoo-user] Nvidia-drivers stopped working

2007-08-05 Thread Ernie Schroder
A few days ago I ran my updates and nvidia-settings was updated to 1.0.20070302 All was good until last night. I openen konqueror to browse my home dir and I got a mime-type error and no files displayed. Trying to do konqueror /home/ernie gave me errors that I can't quote but mime types was

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia-drivers stopped working

2007-08-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 5. August 2007, Ernie Schroder wrote: A few days ago I ran my updates and nvidia-settings was updated to 1.0.20070302 All was good until last night. I openen konqueror to browse my home dir and I got a mime-type error and no files displayed. Trying to do konqueror /home/ernie gave

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia-drivers stopped working

2007-08-05 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Sunday 05 August 2007, a tiny voice compelled Volker Armin Hemmann to write: On Sonntag, 5. August 2007, Ernie Schroder wrote: A few days ago I ran my updates and nvidia-settings was updated to 1.0.20070302 All was good until last night. I openen konqueror to browse my home dir and I

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia-drivers stopped working

2007-08-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 5. August 2007, Ernie Schroder wrote: On Sunday 05 August 2007, a tiny voice compelled Volker Armin Hemmann to write: On Sonntag, 5. August 2007, Ernie Schroder wrote: A few days ago I ran my updates and nvidia-settings was updated to 1.0.20070302 All was good until last

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia-drivers stopped working

2007-08-05 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Sunday 05 August 2007, a tiny voice compelled Volker Armin Hemmann to write: On Sonntag, 5. August 2007, Ernie Schroder wrote: On Sunday 05 August 2007, a tiny voice compelled Volker Armin Hemmann to write: On Sonntag, 5. August 2007, Ernie Schroder wrote: A few days ago I ran my

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers for 8600 GT

2007-05-13 Thread Markus Schönhaber
Markus Schönhaber wrote: Daniel Pielmeier wrote: You can try to rename the ebuild according to the new version and add it to your overlay, maybe it just works. I'll try it. A minor change to the ebuild to reflect the different numbering scheme of the beta driver's package was necessary.

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers for 8600 GT

2007-05-13 Thread Markus Schönhaber
Aleksandar L. Dimitrov wrote: I did something rather dirty today. I downloaded the newest Nvidia Beta Drivers and copied it over to /usr/portage/distfiles under the same name the in-portage driver had. So while portage thinks the old drivers are installed - that's not the case :) Oh yes,

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers for 8600 GT

2007-05-13 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
I did something rather dirty today. I downloaded the newest Nvidia Beta Drivers and copied it over to /usr/portage/distfiles under the same name the in-portage driver had. So while portage thinks the old drivers are installed - that's not the case :) Oh yes, dirty ;-) I assume you did also

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers for 8600 GT

2007-05-13 Thread Markus Schönhaber
Daniel Pielmeier wrote: The result is the same, but creating an ebuild and putting it an overlay is a much more cleaner way of doing it. ACK. I did it that way. I didn't mention in my previous post that I did put the new ebuild into an overlay, though. Regards mks -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers for 8600 GT

2007-05-12 Thread Markus Schönhaber
Hello! Today I bought a graphics card with Nvidia 8600 GT chipset without taking into account that there might be no official nvidia drivers supporting this card yet. There are beta drivers (v. 100.14.03) available on nzone, though, that should get that card working, but there's no ebuild for

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers for 8600 GT

2007-05-12 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Today I bought a graphics card with Nvidia 8600 GT chipset without taking into account that there might be no official nvidia drivers supporting this card yet. There are beta drivers (v. 100.14.03) available on nzone, though, that should get that card working, but there's no ebuild for them

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers for 8600 GT

2007-05-12 Thread Markus Schönhaber
Daniel Pielmeier wrote: I don't think that there is an overlay for those drivers. Take a look at this bugs [1][2] which are dealing with the new drivers. Maybe they will be added to the tree soon. Thanks for the pointers. You can try to rename the ebuild according to the new version and add

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers for 8600 GT

2007-05-12 Thread Aleksandar L. Dimitrov
On Sun, 13 May 2007 00:30:50 +0200 Markus Schönhaber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Pielmeier wrote: I don't think that there is an overlay for those drivers. Take a look at this bugs [1][2] which are dealing with the new drivers. Maybe they will be added to the tree soon. Thanks for

[gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers and vesa on GeForce 6100 nForce 400

2007-05-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
Is it possible to get nvidia binary drivers working for an onboard GeForce 6100 nForce 400? lspci doesn't recognise it: 00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 03d2 (rev a2) I saw it listed in _one_ nvidia-drivers package (on the nvidia website) as supported, but it

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers and vesa on GeForce 6100 nForce 400

2007-05-10 Thread Francisco Rivas
Good day, What kernel have you?, what version of xorg? :D On 5/10/07, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to get nvidia binary drivers working for an onboard GeForce 6100 nForce 400? lspci doesn't recognise it: 00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers and vesa on GeForce 6100 nForce 400

2007-05-10 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 10 May 2007 21:10:25 +0930 Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to get nvidia binary drivers working for an onboard GeForce 6100 nForce 400? lspci doesn't recognise it: 00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 03d2 (rev a2) Unless the

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers and vesa on GeForce 6100 nForce 400

2007-05-10 Thread James Ausmus
On 5/10/07, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to get nvidia binary drivers working for an onboard GeForce 6100 nForce 400? lspci doesn't recognise it: 00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 03d2 (rev a2) I saw it listed in _one_ nvidia-drivers

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