On Friday 13 October 2006 05:12, Troy Curtis Jr wrote: > I say in the newsletter that the stabilization of Xorg 7.1 was being > held up until there where updated drivers for Nvidia that added > support for this version. So does this mean that you MUST use the > latest Nvidia driver to use Xorg 7.1? I know that I had an issue with > the libraries not getting stuck in the right spot using legacy drivers > with Xorg 7, but I assume there is some additional issue here am I > correct? > > My problem is that I cannot use any driver after 7664 with my Geforce4 > MX460, despite the fact that it is listed as one of the supported > boards on the newer driver. Every time I try it, my screen goes blank > and the system completely locks up. > > So I guess I have two questions: > > Does anyone know how to make 7664 work with Xorg 7.1 (I haven't tried it > yet)? > > Does anyone know of some configuration I might be doing wrong that is > preventing the new drivers from working?
The legacy drivers have also been updated. They have also been moved to a new package that replaces the kernel and glx package. emerge -C nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx && emerge x11-drivers/nvidia-legacy-drivers -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
