Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: URGENT: No more fonts after xorg changes

["Dmitri Pogosyan" <pogosyan@phys.ualberta.ca>]

What are you talking about ? 8776 is long ago stable on amd64

> > Hi,
> >
> > I got my fonts back by now, even with the beta driver from portage. There are
> > 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 say,
> > a game in fullscreen mode with another resolution than the standard crashes
> > X.
> >
> > cu
> > Dieter
> 
> Using a minute to search on google can really help solve problems.
> 1. Stable nvidia is not compatible with xorg 7.1. This has been discussed 
> at length both here and on nvnews.net
> 2. nvidia 9629 has a horrible _known_ bug that causes the crash.
> 
> You can easily mask it using:
> 
> echo =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.9629 >> /etc/portage/package.mask
> 
> Then emerge the unstable (~amd64) driver in portage. It should be 8776, 
> which works.
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