Hi, I got my fonts back by now, even with the beta driver from portage. There are two main problems now:
1: i cant go back to stable nvidia-drivers, because of the font problem 2: when using the beta driver, changing the resolution when running, lets say, a game in fullscreen mode with another resolution than the standard crashes X. cu Dieter Am Samstag 02 Dezember 2006 20:10 schrieb Duncan: > "Dieter Ries" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], > > excerpted below, on Sat, 02 Dec 2006 17:26:50 +0100: > > When I try to start X, there is a message, that the module i use is > > designed for ABI <1, and the XServer is running ABI 1, it says the server > > will run, but there may be funny behaviours. Indeed there are. > > Either as you start or in the xorg log (/var/log/Xorg.0.log, normally), > there should be some indication of what module it is talking about. > See if equery belongs <module> turns up anything. That's going to be the > package you need to remerge. If nothing is listed, it may be a stale > version of a file or the slaveryware nvidia drivers you installed manually > (which I take to mean outside of portage). Note that installing them > using the Gentoo package takes care of some stuff that installing them > manually doesn't, as the manual install isn't setup for Gentoo > specifically and uses different default paths and the like. In > particular, mixing the two, switching between emerged via portage, and > manually installing the package as you did, is known to cause weird issues, > as you'll be left with a strange and not very workable missmash of stuff. > It's certainly possible to do the same additional things the Gentoo > ebuild does manually too, but it's the sort of thing that if you are > asking about it, you are best off just sticking to the Gentoo solution and > not trying to figure out how to manage it manually. FWIW, the biggest > problem has to do with Gentoo's eselect opengl management, which is > something the nvidia package itself has no way of knowing about and > therefore fixing, since it's not Gentoo specific as the eselect solution > is. > > Of course, here, I purposefully bought an ATI Radeon 9200 series graphics > card since it has free drivers. I couldn't legally run slaveryware even if > I wanted to, at least where EULAs are or could be considered legal, as I > simply don't sign over the rights nearly all EULAs demand I sign over, > viewing it much the same way I'd view an attempt to restrict my other > basic rights, such as freedom of religion or freedom of expression. Until > Nvidia has decent free drivers, they don't get my money, just as current > ATI doesn't get my money as they no longer provide drivers or specs for > the community to code its own. If I were upgrading now, it'd likely be to > Intel, even tho I've been an AMD user for over a decade now, because > Intel's integrated chipset video is the best choice for free drivers there > is right now. Fortunately, I'll be upgrading my existing dual Opteron to > dual-cores soon, and won't be upgrading the system for at least two years > after that. By the time I /do/ upgrade, the currently beginning trend > toward standardizing the graphics instruction set to the point it's > basically an extension of the CPU instruction set should be well under > way, with comparable openness as well, so freedomware graphics drivers > making use of it should be getting rather more common. > > -- > Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. > "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- > and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- Frank Castle is dead! Call me 'The PUNISHER'!
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