http://www.marcuscom.com/g2g-xfree86/article.html
I still can't figure out where this was applied in the 4.2.0 ebuild but not 4.2.1, but anyway I'm going to try building 4.2.1 with this patch now and see what happens...
Thanks again for the tip.
From: Chip Marshalll
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] XFree 4.2.1 - Geforce Go support gone?
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 15:04:09 -0500
I think the GF2Go was supported in 4.2.0 with a patch that can be
found online. I'm not sure if the patch was incorporated into 4.2.1 or
not. If you were using XF86 out of portage, perhaps it applied this
patch for you before, but when the ebuild was updated, it was left out?
I'm not sure on any of this, but thought it might be helpful.
On February 07, 2003, Tom Reinhart sent me the following:
> I'm using XFree 4.2.0 on a laptop with a Geforce2 Go video card installed.
> I'm using the built-in nv driver (NOT the binary-only driver from nVidia)
> Everything is working great. The other day, I tried to install 4.2.1
> because its a dependency for certain packages. I left all my configuration
> files alone (its a minor upgrade, right???) and when I started it up, all I
> got was a garbage screen and a hung computer. So I started fiddling with
> the settings in my XFree86Config but nothing I tried made any difference,
> then I started reading man pages. The "nv" driver man page had a line that
> XFree86 does NOT support Geforce2 GO. What gives? That line is not in the
> man page for 4.2.0, and it works fine. Was it intentionally removed?
> Googling for xfree and geforce2 go turned up nothing useful at all, except
> a couple of older technical messages when people were getting it to work in
> the first place. Anyone know??
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