Hi,

first things first: its working right now!

Am Sonntag 03 Dezember 2006 00:23 schrieb Dmitri Pogosyan:
> What are you talking about ? 8776 is long ago stable on amd64
>
> >
> > 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.

As Dmitri wrote, that is no longer necessary, because this version is stable 
on AMD64.

The problem I encountered was, that when I tried to start X with 8776, I got 
the following error message:

API mismatch: the NVIDIA kernel module has the version 1.0.9629 but this X 
module has the version 1.0-8776. Please make sure that the kernel module and 
all NVIDIA driver components have the same Version.

And this even occurred after emerge -C nvidia-drivers etc. Now I got it back 
working with uninstalling the NVIDIA.<bla>.run package manually, and then 
unmerging nvidia-drivers, and remerging nvidia-drivers. So it seems that this 
BETA driver from NVIDIA behaves different from the former versions. 

But that doesn't matter anymore, thank you all for you help,

cu
Dieter

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