[gentoo-user] Nvidia and Minefield?

2007-01-09 Thread Bruno Lustosa
Hello, list. I'm running Gentoo on my box, and got (almost) everything on ~x86, with the exception of gcc, glibc and binutils, as these have rendered my box completely b0rked in the past. (un?)fortunately, this machine has an nvidia graphics display, and we all know nvidia linux drivers are very

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia and Minefield?

2007-01-09 Thread Kent Fredric
On 1/10/07, Bruno Lustosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, list. I'm running Gentoo on my box, and got (almost) everything on ~x86, with the exception of gcc, glibc and binutils, as these have rendered my box completely b0rked in the past. (un?)fortunately, this machine has an nvidia graphics d

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia and Minefield?

2007-01-09 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 19:00, Bruno Lustosa wrote: > > If I could, I would leave nvidia forever, but I guess there are no > better (or less worse) alternative, so I must stick to these crappy > drivers. > Also, this seems to have started after I had to replace nvidia-drivers > with nvidia-lega

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia and Minefield?

2007-01-09 Thread b.n.
Hemmann, Volker Armin ha scritto: since the problems also appear with nv (but not as severe), I would not blame nvidia, but minefield. You should got to the nvidia forum and ask there. It seems to me he's saying that with the nv drivers, X is unusable, regardless of Minefield being active o

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia and Minefield?

2007-01-10 Thread Bruno Lustosa
On 1/9/07, Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: since the problems also appear with nv (but not as severe), I would not blame nvidia, but minefield. Yes, I thought it might be some problem with cairo, which might affect X. I've had some problems with cairo in the past, and as Minefi