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