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maxpenguin
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 Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2004 5:16 am Post subject: AMD64 and nVidia drivers 1.0.533 (GF FX 5700) |
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Hi,
I've been working on getting x to work on my athlon 64.
I've successfully emerged the nvidia 4499 drivers (glx and kernel) which seems to be perfectly fine. When I start x I get a weirdly garbled display - weird colors and just a mess. After searching the forums and finding this thread: | Code: | | http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=110752 |
Which indicate I need the 5332 drivers.
The 5332 drivers for AMD64 don't seem to exist in portage (I sync'd just a few minutes ago), although if I temparily set the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS to x86 emerge -s comes up with the new driver.
I'm kind of new to gentoo, so does anybody know what to do in this situation? Does this mean there are issues with 5332 on amd64 or has sombody just not gotten arround to it?
Also the installer from nvidia.com for the amd64 don't seem to work 
Any help much appreciated, sorry if this is obvious. |
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ryanCD
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| Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2004 1:38 pm Post subject: |
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Are you accepting keywords ~amd64? I think that's all you need to do.
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| Code: | | ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64" emerge -p nvidia-glx |
and see if it comes up with the 5332 driver, if it does, install that and nvidia-kernel while accepting ~amd64.
Check out the nvidia driver readme and make sure X86Config-4 is configured to spec, and http://dev.gentoo.org/~brad_mssw/amd64-tech-notes.html has some notes for nvidia video cards on amd64.
You might want to add ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64" to /etc/make.conf. It's up to you, as this allows more things to run, but means they haven't been tested much, or have known issues.
Take a look at the online package database too. It can tell you how stable something is for what platforms, and it's kind of neet just to browse by catigory and look for things you didn't even know you needed.
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Kioshen
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| Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2004 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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I can confirm ryanCD post. The driver is in the unstable branch of portage so you must the accept keywork workaround if you don't want to turn your entire system on the bleeding edge side.
You should check Brad's page often to see if they are major changes to the distro since it is still in beta stages. |
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maxpenguin
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| Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2004 11:00 pm Post subject: |
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Okay thanks, the accept keywords made it work 
Thanks heaps, I really should've guessed that . Anyway works perfect now  . |
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