Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: NVIDIA 100.14.19 + xorg-server 1.4.0.90 + xorg-x11 7.3 = blackscreen after every restart

[Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>]

* Hemmann, Volker Armin <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> wrote:

> > For this year I've already wasted too much resources on that.
> > Maybe I'll have a try in a few month. 3D stuff isnt't that
> > important for me - for 2D stuff the free driver works very fine.
> >
> 
> yeah, just copying an ebuild and replacing nv with nvidia in xorg.conf costs 
> so much time and is so hard to do. Whining on the other hand does not take 
> any time at all.

It's more than that. Rebuilding the kernel, loosing fb and ovz, etc.
I prefer spending that amount of time on disassambling the binary
module ... ;-o

> > BTW: the ebuild conflicts between kernel and nvidia-drivers are
> > also annoying. The kernel parts should be handled differently.
> 
> what are you talking about? conflicts? kernel parts? which kernel parts 
> handled by what and why?

The problem comes from NV's (broken) package. Their "sanity" 
checks seem to go against the *running* kernel, instead the one
to build for. So, in my case, it denies compiling, as the
currently running kernel has rivafb (but the target kernel won't).


cu
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