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jschweg Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 21 Feb 2004 Posts: 85
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Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 7:53 pm Post subject: X11 Video Driver Confusion |
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Hi guys, I'm not new to linux in general, however I am new to Gentoo and have also never really used Linux as anything other than a server OS (Until now that is). I'm confused about a few things and hope to have some of these questions cleared up.
I got a little ahead of myself and compiled xorg-x11 without reading the How-To first. I didn't set the VIDEO_CARD variable in the make.conf (I have an nvidia card). Can I go back and add that variable, then re-emerge xorg-x11?
Also I don't really understand the whole video driver thing . Do I need to emerge the nvidia-driver package to get X working (or do you need it to use the above variable?), or is this just for hardware acceleration? When I used to use linux years ago, I thought that I just built the support for the video card into the kernel. |
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wah Guru
Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Posts: 453 Location: Raleigh, NC, USA
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Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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I got a little ahead of myself and compiled xorg-x11 without reading the How-To first. I didn't set the VIDEO_CARD variable in the make.conf (I have an nvidia card). Can I go back and add that variable, then re-emerge xorg-x11?
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Yes - just add that variable to your make.conf and do an emerge -vuDNa
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Also I don't really understand the whole video driver thing . Do I need to emerge the nvidia-driver package to get X working (or do you need it to use the above variable?), or is this just for hardware acceleration? When I used to use linux years ago, I thought that I just built the support for the video card into the kernel.
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The variable declaration above will pull in what you need based on what you set - ie, if you put nv, nvidia as your VIDEO_CARDS, then portage will pull the nv module and the nvidia-drivers package in as dependencies.
HTH,
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jschweg Tux's lil' helper
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Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 11:54 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the clarification, I appreciate it.
Only issue is that when I run:
It just comes back like I didn't type the parameters correctly. |
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jschweg Tux's lil' helper
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Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 11:59 pm Post subject: |
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Was I supposed to type:
Code: | emerge xorg-x11 -vuDNa |
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wah Guru
Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Posts: 453 Location: Raleigh, NC, USA
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Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 1:30 am Post subject: |
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jschweg wrote: | Was I supposed to type:
Code: | emerge xorg-x11 -vuDNa |
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Sorry it was late in the day for me - should be emerge -vuDNa world
My apologies
Cheers,
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jschweg Tux's lil' helper
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Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 3:15 pm Post subject: |
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No problem, I'm getting closer now, but still having some problems.
On my inital install, I chose to use the LiveCD kernel, which means that there isn't a copy of gentoo-sources in /usr/src. During the xorg emerge it did install gentoo-sources, but obviously there was no .config file to edit when it went to install the nvidia package, so the emerge terminated.
Now that the src is installed, do I need to build a kernel to generate a .config, then re-emerge xorg-x11? Of course when I use pretend now, it doesn't show the nvidia package as a dependancy anymore... |
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