On Thu, 2003-12-25 at 23:41, Scott Jackson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 04:17:29 +0000 > Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 22:01:40 -0600 Scott Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > | 1) the "emerge -k nvidia-kernel" is broken. do a "links > > | www.nvidia.com" and download the driver straight from the website, to > > | /mnt/gentoo/ > > > > It is? What kernel? Did you check bugzilla (http://bugs.gentoo.org/) and > > file a bug if necessary? It's not globally broken, as I can emerge it > > quite happily here. > > Well the reason I say it is broken is because in my experience, for some reason, > XFree doesn't recognize the driver when you emerge it, but it works fine when you > have the nVidia driver compile itself from scratch.
Xfree86 does not see, nor care to see, kernel drivers. Did you emerge nvidia-glx as well? > > | 2) genkernel is the ONLY working option. > > > > Huh? That is obviously untrue. > > Okay, clarification. In my experience, genkernel has been the only DECENT option for > getting Gentoo to work, since Gentoo requires certain modules to be loaded (like > devfsd) and genkernel takes care of those automatically. There are also distinct > differences between the configure screen on "genkernel --config" and "make > menuconfig". `genkernel --config` simply copies a prefab .config and lets you chose options with those defaults. do a make menuconfig after your genkernel --config and you will see the options are the same. -- Chris I [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: www.cidesign.ca/~chris/ Don't speak about Time, until you have spoken to him.
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