On Sun, 15 Feb 2004, Norbert Kamenicky uttered the following immortal words,
> Grendel wrote: > > On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Brendan Sullivan uttered the following immortal words, > > > Somehow I prefer the virgin nvidia.com 5336 package over the builds, I > > just download it and run the .run file and it installs beautifully. > > I saw this mail in the PITA folder but this was too good a opoortunity to let slip by. > What's worse the driver is written in windblowz way ... > no output about what it is doing, no warnings if something > will be overwriten etc., simply junk. If you are curious type --extract and extract the sources and compile it yourself :P > ebuild is tested and patched by gentoo devs, so the risk > of troubles is reduced to minimum. Please make the following changes to your installation guide 1. It clearly mentiones that if you have nvidia-hardware, emerge nvidia-kernel, but it doesnt tell to emerge the nvidia-glx or whatever thig is necessary to run X thus making it absolutely useless. I think it should be added to the guide. I can post a patch if anyone shows me where to do it? 2. Why am I having so much trouble with the gentoo nvidia drivers, I installed them and tried to play NWN and I am having random lockups, the computer gets locked so bad that the reset button has to be used. I installed the 5336 drivers from nvidia and it disappeared. I dont know what the gentoo guys did, but I will run a diff on the sources and see what hapenned, to make things worse. Please tell me the maintainer whom to get in touch with this. Grendel -- Grendels annoyance filter is so advanced it puts people to the killfile even before they have posted. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
