| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
nardew
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 27 Aug 2005
Posts: 93
|
 Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 9:13 am Post subject: nvidia-legacy-drivers [SOLVED] |
 |
|
Hi.
As it is highly recommended to replace nvidia propietary drivers with nvidia-legacy-drivers, i've done so. But since that I can't start up X system any more. The screen is black and I have to manually restart pc to get at least to the console. I tried to change driver from nvidia to nv, but I've got notebook with widescreen and nv driver can't handle 1280x800 resolution, so now I have ugly 1024x768.
asus a6t, nvidia go7600
thnx
_________________
Asus A6T, AMD Turion X2, nVidia Geforce Go7600
Last edited by nardew on Tue Sep 19, 2006 7:21 pm; edited 1 time in total |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
saffsd
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 03 Mar 2006
Posts: 139
|
| Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 9:30 am Post subject: |
|
|
You're looking for nvidia-drivers. Its the new name for what was nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx. This is still the proprietary driver. AFAIK nvidia-legacy-drivers is also proprietary, but it is meant for older video cards. Pretty sure nvidia go7600 isnt that old  |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
nardew
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 27 Aug 2005
Posts: 93
|
| Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 6:47 pm Post subject: |
|
|
ok, so what should i do?
_________________
Asus A6T, AMD Turion X2, nVidia Geforce Go7600 |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
wynn
Advocate
Joined: 01 Apr 2005
Posts: 2421
Location: UK
|
| Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 7:13 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I'm not sure whether nvidia-legacy-drivers will be automatically unmerge'd so | Code: | emerge -Ca x11-drivers/nvidia-legacy-drivers
emerge -av x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers
eselect opengl select nvidia |
and you should be using the nvidia driver which suits your card.
If you're not that familiar with emerge: "emerge -Ca" unmerges a package but asks (-a) first; "emerge -av" emerges one or more packages, displays their USE flags and asks for confirmation.
_________________
The avatar is jorma, a "duck" from "Elephants Dream": the film and all the production materials have been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License, see orange.blender.org for details. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
nardew
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 27 Aug 2005
Posts: 93
|
| Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 7:21 pm Post subject: |
|
|
thnx, everything is running...
_________________
Asus A6T, AMD Turion X2, nVidia Geforce Go7600 |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
Desktop Environments
