OK, well, for some reason when I emerge xfree it goes striaght to 4.2.1. Originally, X got installed when I tried to emerge links for a command line browser.
Once I get 4.2.99 on here, I'm sure I'll have no problem. Its getting to that point right now. Any ideas how I can force an emerge to the higher version? I've tried upgrade world/system, and emerge sync. Really confused now :-). M. -- "They say that time can make a difference. But age doesn't make you a man" - Creed in Young Grow Old AIM: TheAgen7 ICQ: 4632557 Yahoo: UnixDeity MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blacklot.us -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] GeForce 4 with XFree in Gentoo? From: gabor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, February 27, 2003 17:07 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 00:54, Matt Davis wrote: > Wow, I've never had a distro make me feel like such a n00b but I've > got a quick question. I performed an emerge xfree and set up xfree > as I usually do (using the nv driver) but it isn't working. I look > in the log and on the nv driver it only goes up to GeForce 3. > > Hmmmm. > > I'm using the gentoo sources for when I built my kernel. I looked > through the FAQ and can't even get to the point where that is > helpful (hoping for a more step by step solution)... it says try > Xfree using NV as a driver first and I can't get that working. > > Any ideas? Did I somehow get a really old version of X? Log says > 4.2.1. I've emerged nvidia-glx. the problem is that xfree 4.2.x only supports geforces up to 3 geforce4 is supported in xfree 4.3... so you can do 2 things: (from now on i refer to 'nv' as the xfree-geforce driver and 'nvidia' as the driver from www.nvidia.com 1. emerge xfree will install xfree4.2.99 ( which is basically an xfree4.3 prerelease) on your computer, and it will work 2. emerge nvidia-kernel and emerge nvidia-glx. this will install the binary driver from www.nvidia.com you have to use opengl-update ( it tells the system which opengl driver to use.. possibilities : "opengl-update xfree" "opengl-update nvidia" ) you have to modify your /etc/X11/XF86Config: if you're going to use the xfree-driver, Driver "nv" in the appropriate section if you're going to sue the nvidia-binary-driver, Driver "nvidia" that's all, gabor p.s: the nv driver is more stable + no 3d acceleration at all.. the nvidia driver is less stable + faster in 2d + 3d acceleration > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
