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Uzelth
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 Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 8:23 pm Post subject: NVIDIA drivers |
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Not sure if this is in the right forum - so apologies if it's not!
I've tried using the nvidia-drivers from portage... But with both XFCE and KDE just the little things look ugly - like certain window borders, and with KDE the loading "bouncy" icons look horrific...
So I tried installing the drivers from nvidia.com (http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_173.14.12.html), but I get several errors about the problems with the kernel source, etc... Why would this be if there is a source @ /usr/src/linux?
Anyone else had this problem? If so how was it remedied? I *really* don't want to use the drivers in portage... Don't wanna put up with any more horrificness 
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 9:00 pm Post subject: |
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Uzelth,
The two drivers are identical, other than the ebuild may patch the open source shim code to make the driver build with gentoo-sources.
Both provide the same binary blobs doing the driving.
If it looks ugly to you, there are some settings you are missing somewhere.
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Section_8
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| Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 9:06 pm Post subject: |
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That version of nvidia-drivers is available in portage, keyworded ~amd64. If you want to emerge that instead of the stable version (173.14.09) you can just add "x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers" to /etc/portage/package.keywords and then emerge nvidia-drivers.
However, this sounds to me like it's probably related to some X setting like DPI rather than something that a driver version upgrade would fix. |
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Uzelth
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| Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 9:10 pm Post subject: |
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@Section_8: I had to add "x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers" to both package.keywords and package.unmask... Just having it added to package.keywords still left the drivers masked :\
@NeddySeagoon: My device section in xorg.conf is as follows:
| Code: | Section "Device"
Identifier "Device[0]"
Driver "nvidia"
BusID "PCI:5:0:0"
VideoRam 262144
Option "NoLogo" "true"
Option "RenderAccel" "true"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
Option "UseEvents" "false"
EndSection |
Not sure what's missing from it :\
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NeddySeagoon
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Uzelth,
It will be some font smoothing options in KDE or whatever. Look at your font anti-aliasing/hinting settings.
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