On Thursday 03 March 2005 12:02 am, Peter Gordon wrote: > Dang it..this is one reason I hate proprietary drivers. The 1.0-6629 driver > doesn't work for me (Riva TNT2 M64), and the compile fix isn't being > backported to 1.0-6111 *sigh* Ah well. nv suits me fine until I get my > shiny new R9250 from NewEgg =) > Put the following in your /etc/portage/package.mask (create the file if it doesn't exist) : >=media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629 >=media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.6629
Then emerge nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx and try this version of the nvidia driver. All versions above nvidia-kernel-1.0.6111-r3 do not work for me. So I finally just excepted that fact and masked everything >=1.0.6629. -- Chris Linux 2.6.10-gentoo-r7 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 00:12:54 up 1 day, 2:56, 7 users, load average: 7.63, 7.71, 6.94 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
