Re: More about: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg & nvidia (again) ;-(

2006-06-27 Thread Richard Fish
On 6/27/06, Alan E. Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nv has been ok. W/ dual opterons, even though not especially fast ones, these graphics intensive tasks have been performing well. Googleearth hasn't been working, either because of this issue, or amd64 incompatibility: it works well even with

Re: More about: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg & nvidia (again) ;-(

2006-06-27 Thread Alan E. Davis
On 6/28/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is being pulled in because you have VIDEO_CARDS=nvidia in /etc/make.conf. If you want only the opensource nv driver, you want "VIDEO_CARDS=nv" instead. Ok, I'll try this. What's IUSE="video_cards_nvidia ... etc " all about in the xine-l

Re: More about: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg & nvidia (again) ;-(

2006-06-27 Thread Richard Fish
On 6/27/06, Alan E. Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 1. Is this the ebuild that is pulling nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx back in? (I already unmerged nvidia-settings). This is being pulled in because you have VIDEO_CARDS=nvidia in /etc/make.conf. If you want only the opensource nv driver,

More about: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg & nvidia (again) ;-(

2006-06-27 Thread Alan E. Davis
I am thorougly confused: things must be moving very quickly with xorg 7. I hope my jumping in here will not further confuse the issue. I have found various descriptions of the roots of the problem, and various solutions involving masking different combinations of packages. I had decided to drop