xfree86 to xorg-x11 for nvidia users in a few simple steps

Gandalf the White · Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 11:30 am Post subject:

Yeah thanks, I made the post on campus and couldn't remember exactly what it was. Glad to see it worked and you were able to figure out what I was saying! :lol:

LeTene · Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 11:38 am Post subject:

You can avoid having to do the nasty inject of XFree86 by using:

Gandalf the White · Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 11:51 am Post subject:

@LeTene

That's another way of doing it for specific ebuilds, but(on my system at least), emerge -U world would still want to emerge xfree, by injecting it it no longer wants to do this, and I can emerge away no problems.

Ard Righ · Posted: Sat May 01, 2004 6:39 am Post subject:

Is it still the case that XFree needs to be injected to stop it from being installed ?

I thought with the latest package of Xorg, that XFree was blocked (the B that shows up), so that it won't install while Xorg is installed ?

I have xorg and gnome 2.6 installed on my PC. When I do a emerge -p kde, it doesn't list trying to install XFree ?

RioFL · Guru Joined: 31 Oct 2002 Posts: 407

oook I'm confused. What's the big bru-ha about xorg vs xfree? Is xorg supposed to be an order of magnitude better or some such? My system must be rock stable as I use it for work 99% of my day. The only thing I took a chance on was the 2.6.5 kernel which is working perfectly for me, presently using devfs, but in the next incarnation of this machine I intend to kill that and use udev. Will xorg be any better for me? I need extremely fast vid response, and sadly at the moment I still have some dropped frames in movies, and rendering is a bit slow which I attribute to the processors.

My machine is:

dual p3-933 procs on a tyan tiger 230T motherboard (Apollo Pro133T chipset), using a geforce4 Ti 4200 128mb and nvidia 4496 kernel and matching glx in twinview mode.

any ideas here?

Chuck

moocha · Watchman Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Posts: 5722

Negeus

All of the following takes place on a fresh installation (I was checking out kde before I emerged the nvidia packages and thats how I noticed the change)...

After emerging nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx (had to inject xfree), I modified my /etc/X11/xorg.conf by uncommenting glx and changing nv to nvidia in the driver section for my gfx card. When I restarted X and logged back into kde I found that all my fonts were now big and ugly (I will post a screenshot if nessecary).

I had not changed one thing apart from what was mentioned above. It may be worth noting that the first time I tried restarting X it failed to start but everything was ok after a reboot.

If you would like me to post my entire xorg.conf or just certain sections then please say so.
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Negeus · Posted: Sun May 02, 2004 9:31 pm Post subject:

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Negeus · Posted: Sun May 02, 2004 10:06 pm Post subject:

Thanks for that, the Nvidia readme confirms you have a good memory :lol:

Just in case anyone else is interested here are the relavent sections from the Nvidia drivers readme...

Duck-Billed Platypus · Posted: Sun May 02, 2004 10:20 pm Post subject:

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Nutterpc · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Feb 2004 Posts: 83

What this sounds like to me is you need to is try the following:

Make sure your nvidia driver is set to load in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6

If they are, proceed to next step

As per my original post, when you originally setup gentoo, there was a part where you had to look for all modules (one of them's the nvidia driver). Once you find that it is there, try deleting this file.

try then re-emerging the nvidia-drivers, then reboot.......cross your fingers too, that might help :wink:

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carney1979 · Posted: Sat May 22, 2004 5:10 am Post subject:

Still didn't work for me :cry:

Negeus' solution is worth a try, but it will have to wait until the AM. Caffiene has run out and I'm done.

Funny thing was I HAD glx working perfectly under xfree until someone suggested I try reemerging xfree with a couple of different use flags. That's when I got into trouble. I removed the new use flags and tried again to remerge xfree. Now glx was "broken".

I'll bet that sometime between my last update of xfree and when I tried to reemerge xfree I must have changed or added or deleted a use flag(s) that it all needs to work. And now the problem has carried over when I installed xorg.

Nutterpc, care to share your use flags used to emerge xorg?

David

moocha · Watchman Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Posts: 5722

Well, what are the USE flags you emerged X.Org with? cat /var/db/pkg/x11-base/xorg-x11-6.7.0/USE
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sdaffis · Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 6:26 am Post subject:

Now I too have switched to X.org with no hassle at all!

All I did was:

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pcrissman · n00b Joined: 04 Oct 2003 Posts: 35 Location: MPLS, MN, USA

I'm working on a fresh install, and decided to go with xorg right from go.

It just finished compiling, and etc-update has informed me that I have 257 files that need updating.

257 files!

Keep in mind, this is a fresh install. The only things I've done past the end of the install guide is install the bootsplash/framebuffer.

Is this many files to update normal? I was just curious. I almost fell off my chair.