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murph1083
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 Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 4:07 pm Post subject: installing Nvidia Driver (Binary) |
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| I have never installed the Nvidia Binary Drivers before and I was wondering if I need to do anything differentl besides emerging a different package? |
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| Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 8:06 am Post subject: |
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Moved from Installing Gentoo to Kernel & Hardware.
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murph1083
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| Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 6:14 pm Post subject: |
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| The guide talks about installing what I though to believe was the older drivers..not the binary ones. I thought the binary drivers were "nvidia-drivers" not "nvidia-kernel" and "nvidia-glx" |
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| Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 6:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | The guide talks about installing what I though to believe was the older drivers..not the binary ones. I thought the binary drivers were "nvidia-drivers" not "nvidia-kernel" and "nvidia-glx" |
Both sets are "binary" drivers because they both have the critical part of the driver available only as a binary blob.
Yes, you should be using x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers and the latest version, 1.0.8762-r1, is stable (not masked).
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Dizzutch
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why is nvidia-drivers-8762-r1 blocked by xorg-server-1.0.99 while xorg-xserver-1.1.1 is installed?
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Headrush
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| Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 7:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Dizzutch wrote: | | why is nvidia-drivers-8762-r1 blocked by xorg-server-1.0.99 while xorg-xserver-1.1.1 is installed? |
There are lot of threads talking about this, just search a little.
Anyways, today a new release from nvidia has support for xorg-7.1, so assuming all is good, this restriction should be removed shortly. |
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murph1083
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| Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 11:50 am Post subject: |
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| by just emerging nvidia-drivers, will it take care of the rest or do I still need to load the modules and edit the xconfig as normal? |
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If you have xorg 7 installed that should work, if not you have to uninstall xorg (do a quickpkg xorg-x11) first so if things go horribly wrong you can just reemerge xorg-6.X from the binary package with emerge -K xorg-x11.
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murph1083
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| Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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| drescherjm wrote: | | If you have xorg 7 installed that should work, if not you have to uninstall xorg (do a quickpkg xorg-x11) first so if things go horribly wrong you can just reemerge xorg-6.X from the binary package with emerge -K xorg-x11. |
What should work...the drivers setting up by themselves or me manually installing them? |
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murph1083
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| Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 8:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Have all you guys installed Nvidia drivers by using nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel....of did you do nvidia-drivers....if you did nvidia-driver...what did you do to get it all set up |
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| Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 9:23 am Post subject: |
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Using nvidia-drivers: | Code: | emerge nvidia-drivers
eselect opengl set nvidia |
change section "Device" from | Code: | Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "nv"
VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
BoardName "NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x]"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
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to | Code: | Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
BoardName "NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x]"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection |
(just Driver "nv" to Driver "nvidia")
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