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On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 04:17:29 +0000
Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 22:01:40 -0600 Scott Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> | 1) the "emerge -k nvidia-kernel" is broken. do a "links
> | www.nvidia.com" and download the driver straight from the website, to
> | /mnt/gentoo/
> 
> It is? What kernel? Did you check bugzilla (http://bugs.gentoo.org/) and
> file a bug if necessary? It's not globally broken, as I can emerge it
> quite happily here.

Well the reason I say it is broken is because in my experience, for some reason, XFree 
doesn't recognize the driver when you emerge it, but it works fine when you have the 
nVidia driver compile itself from scratch.
 
> | 2) genkernel is the ONLY working option.
> 
> Huh? That is obviously untrue.

Okay, clarification. In my experience, genkernel has been the only DECENT option for 
getting Gentoo to work, since Gentoo requires certain modules to be loaded (like 
devfsd) and genkernel takes care of those automatically. There are also distinct 
differences between the configure screen on "genkernel --config" and "make menuconfig".

> -- 
> Ciaran McCreesh
> Mail:    ciaranm at gentoo.org
> Web:     http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
> 
> 


Scott Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
PS: <flame prevention> These are *my* notes on *my* installation. Commentary = good. 
flames = bad. the email to which I am replying is not a flame. we're all happy. Peace 
on earth and goodwill towards men and all that hippie garbage. </flame prevention>
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