From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GqaUX-00039F-PO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 02 Dec 2006 19:25:42 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kB2JMGAd005410; Sat, 2 Dec 2006 19:22:16 GMT Received: from mail.uplink-verein.ch (rou-uplink.uplink-verein.ch [195.176.0.50]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kB2JMFTY023843 for ; Sat, 2 Dec 2006 19:22:15 GMT Received: from [192.168.65.49] (unknown [192.168.65.49]) by mail.uplink-verein.ch (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18ACED367 for ; Sat, 2 Dec 2006 20:22:12 +0100 (CET) From: Dieter Ries To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: URGENT: No more fonts after xorg changes Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 20:22:07 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <20061202161037.315020@gmx.net> <20061202162650.218370@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1327153.SnBgVdyUgP"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200612022022.10099.clip2@gmx.de> X-Archives-Salt: c00646a3-8583-420b-9a87-95f116372038 X-Archives-Hash: 16ffb08b68bc04d47412c7a1f1603cdf --nextPart1327153.SnBgVdyUgP Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hi, I got my fonts back by now, even with the beta driver from portage. There a= re=20 two main problems now: 1: i cant go back to stable nvidia-drivers, because of the font problem 2: when using the beta driver, changing the resolution when running, lets s= ay,=20 a game in fullscreen mode with another resolution than the standard crashes= =20 X. cu Dieter Am Samstag 02 Dezember 2006 20:10 schrieb Duncan: > "Dieter Ries" posted 20061202162650.218370@gmx.net, > > excerpted below, on Sat, 02 Dec 2006 17:26:50 +0100: > > When I try to start X, there is a message, that the module i use is > > designed for ABI <1, and the XServer is running ABI 1, it says the serv= er > > will run, but there may be funny behaviours. Indeed there are. > > Either as you start or in the xorg log (/var/log/Xorg.0.log, normally), > there should be some indication of what module it is talking about. > See if equery belongs turns up anything. That's going to be the > package you need to remerge. If nothing is listed, it may be a stale > version of a file or the slaveryware nvidia drivers you installed manually > (which I take to mean outside of portage). Note that installing them > using the Gentoo package takes care of some stuff that installing them > manually doesn't, as the manual install isn't setup for Gentoo > specifically and uses different default paths and the like. In > particular, mixing the two, switching between emerged via portage, and > manually installing the package as you did, is known to cause weird issue= s, > as you'll be left with a strange and not very workable missmash of stuff. > It's certainly possible to do the same additional things the Gentoo > ebuild does manually too, but it's the sort of thing that if you are > asking about it, you are best off just sticking to the Gentoo solution and > not trying to figure out how to manage it manually. FWIW, the biggest > problem has to do with Gentoo's eselect opengl management, which is > something the nvidia package itself has no way of knowing about and > therefore fixing, since it's not Gentoo specific as the eselect solution > is. > > Of course, here, I purposefully bought an ATI Radeon 9200 series graphics > card since it has free drivers. I couldn't legally run slaveryware even = if > I wanted to, at least where EULAs are or could be considered legal, as I > simply don't sign over the rights nearly all EULAs demand I sign over, > viewing it much the same way I'd view an attempt to restrict my other > basic rights, such as freedom of religion or freedom of expression. Until > Nvidia has decent free drivers, they don't get my money, just as current > ATI doesn't get my money as they no longer provide drivers or specs for > the community to code its own. If I were upgrading now, it'd likely be to > Intel, even tho I've been an AMD user for over a decade now, because > Intel's integrated chipset video is the best choice for free drivers there > is right now. Fortunately, I'll be upgrading my existing dual Opteron to > dual-cores soon, and won't be upgrading the system for at least two years > after that. By the time I /do/ upgrade, the currently beginning trend > toward standardizing the graphics instruction set to the point it's > basically an extension of the CPU instruction set should be well under > way, with comparable openness as well, so freedomware graphics drivers > making use of it should be getting rather more common. > > -- > Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. > "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- > and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman =2D-=20 =46rank Castle is dead! Call me 'The PUNISHER'! --nextPart1327153.SnBgVdyUgP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBFcdJi5YzjaZZeXo0RAvaIAJ4zC2/jMhnGd3KLlZDoLMHAb1kTkQCdFiuf tGKVAlr+8tVZb0gbJ4rm+3w= =LIp+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1327153.SnBgVdyUgP-- -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list