On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 00:54, Matt Davis wrote: > Wow, I've never had a distro make me feel like such a n00b but I've got a > quick question. I performed an emerge xfree and set up xfree as I usually > do (using the nv driver) but it isn't working. I look in the log and on > the nv driver it only goes up to GeForce 3. > > Hmmmm. > > I'm using the gentoo sources for when I built my kernel. I looked through > the FAQ and can't even get to the point where that is helpful (hoping for a > more step by step solution)... it says try Xfree using NV as a driver first > and I can't get that working. > > Any ideas? Did I somehow get a really old version of X? Log says 4.2.1. > I've emerged nvidia-glx.
the problem is that xfree 4.2.x only supports geforces up to 3 geforce4 is supported in xfree 4.3... so you can do 2 things: (from now on i refer to 'nv' as the xfree-geforce driver and 'nvidia' as the driver from www.nvidia.com 1. emerge xfree will install xfree4.2.99 ( which is basically an xfree4.3 prerelease) on your computer, and it will work 2. emerge nvidia-kernel and emerge nvidia-glx. this will install the binary driver from www.nvidia.com you have to use opengl-update ( it tells the system which opengl driver to use.. possibilities : "opengl-update xfree" "opengl-update nvidia" ) you have to modify your /etc/X11/XF86Config: if you're going to use the xfree-driver, Driver "nv" in the appropriate section if you're going to sue the nvidia-binary-driver, Driver "nvidia" that's all, gabor p.s: the nv driver is more stable + no 3d acceleration at all.. the nvidia driver is less stable + faster in 2d + 3d acceleration > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
