-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ferris McCormick wrote: > 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 xorg changed the font ABI in 7.1, which is incompatable with current binary drivers. for nvidia, the most notable thing is the inability to use bitmap fonts. if you can live without them, then 7.1 should work fine.
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