Dale asks:
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 06:41:31 -0500, Dale wrote:
>>
>>> I have not been able to get the nv drivers to work. It has been so
>>> long since I had to use them, it appears I have forgot how to use
>>> them. I'm not sure I have ever used them since I been using Gentoo. I
>>> found the link on the xorg site. It wasn't very useful for me. I do
>>> have xf86-video-nv installed tho. I thought that was it. However,
>>> when I change the driver in xorg.conf to nv, no more GUI.
>>>
>> Instead of editing xorg.conf, move it out of the way and let X figure
>> things out for itself.
>>
>> You could also try the VESA drivers, slow but reliable.
> OK. How do I do the VESA drivers?
Add 'vesa' to your VIDEO_CARDS variable in make.conf, then emerge
-DautvN xorg-drivers. And change the Driver in xorg.conf from 'nvidia'
to 'vesa'.
Wonko
