On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 09:26 -0700, Dice R. Random wrote:
> On 7/26/06, Ferris McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Here is a working combination (for me), assuming modular-X:
> > nvidia-[glx,kernel]-1.0.8762
> > x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.2-r7
> > x11-base/xorg-x11-7.0-r1
> > virtual/x11-7.0-r2
> >
> > Notice that nvidia-glx-1.0.8762 contains an explicit RDEPEND for
> > !>=x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.99
> > and the combination nvidia-glx-<anything> and xorg-server-1.1.<anything>
> > will fail.  With -1.1, the server/driver interface changed, and last I
> > knew, the nvidia driver has not caught up.  Notice also that after
> > installing xorg-server, you might have to
> > eselect opengl set nvidia
> > by hand (I do, but haven't bothered tracking down why).
> 
> You don't see any weird font rendering problems with this combination?
>  I've been using nvidia-glx on xorg-server-1.0.x but I've had problems
> with font rendering off and on.  From reading the bug reports on b.g.o
> I think that's the manner in which the ABI mismatch typically
> manifests itself.

I haven't noticed any rendering problems, but that doesn't mean there
aren't any.  I can be pretty unaware of such things at times.

Regards,
Ferris
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Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc)

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