[gentoo-dev] new nvidia ebuild

[gentoo-dev] new nvidia ebuild

[Daniel Robbins]

Hi All,

Just wanted everyone to know of a new ebuild:

media-gfx/nvidia-1.0.1514

This ebuild contains the latest accelerated nvidia drivers and OpenGL 1.2
implementation, as well as a devfs patch.  To use them, exit X, emerge this
package, and then configure /etc/X11/XF86Config appropriately (basically just
change the "Device" "driver" setting to "nvidia").  Then load the NVdriver
kernel module, start X and you should have very fast, rock-solid accelerated
video under XFree86.

Best Regards,

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
Chief Architect/President			http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.			

Re: [gentoo-dev] new nvidia ebuild

[Tod M. Neidt]

Wow!

I have never gotten around to loading up the nvidia drivers till now. 
Did I say "Wow"!  The xscreensaver GL apps really book now.  Some
actually make me nauseous. I can't wait to try out a few molecular
viewers. Combined with the preemptive 2.4.10 kernel, I have a very very
nice workstation.

Thanks,

tod

On Sat, 2001-10-06 at 15:18, Daniel Robbins wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Just wanted everyone to know of a new ebuild:
> 
> media-gfx/nvidia-1.0.1514
> 
> This ebuild contains the latest accelerated nvidia drivers and OpenGL 1.2
> implementation, as well as a devfs patch.  To use them, exit X, emerge this
> package, and then configure /etc/X11/XF86Config appropriately (basically just
> change the "Device" "driver" setting to "nvidia").  Then load the NVdriver
> kernel module, start X and you should have very fast, rock-solid accelerated
> video under XFree86.
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> -- 
> Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
> Chief Architect/President			http://www.gentoo.org 
> Gentoo Technologies, Inc.			
> 
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Re: [gentoo-dev] new nvidia ebuild

[Aron Griffis]

Hi Daniel,

Daniel Robbins wrote:	[Sat Oct 06 2001, 10:18:14AM EST]
> This ebuild contains the latest accelerated nvidia drivers and OpenGL
> 1.2 implementation, as well as a devfs patch.  To use them, exit X,
> emerge this package, and then configure /etc/X11/XF86Config
> appropriately (basically just change the "Device" "driver" setting to
> "nvidia").  Then load the NVdriver kernel module, start X and you
> should have very fast, rock-solid accelerated video under XFree86.

I don't have an nvidia card, but this ebuild brings up an interesting
question.  I have attempted to emerge glibc a couple times, only to have
it bomb out at the end because I was currently running X.  Couldn't
these ebuilds test for X before actually starting unpack/compile?

Aron

Re: [gentoo-dev] new nvidia ebuild

[Morgan Christiansson]

It worked great for me, even TV-out worked.

I was running GNOME on my TV, ain't that cool? :)

just had to add:
Option      "ConnectedMonitor"  "TV"

There's some hardware mouse shading stuff too but i haven't checked that 
out as it requires restarting X and i don't want all my precious apps to 
die :/


Aron Griffis wrote:

> Hi Daniel,
> 
> Daniel Robbins wrote:	[Sat Oct 06 2001, 10:18:14AM EST]
> 
>>This ebuild contains the latest accelerated nvidia drivers and OpenGL
>>1.2 implementation, as well as a devfs patch.  To use them, exit X,
>>emerge this package, and then configure /etc/X11/XF86Config
>>appropriately (basically just change the "Device" "driver" setting to
>>"nvidia").  Then load the NVdriver kernel module, start X and you
>>should have very fast, rock-solid accelerated video under XFree86.
>>
> 
> I don't have an nvidia card, but this ebuild brings up an interesting
> question.  I have attempted to emerge glibc a couple times, only to have
> it bomb out at the end because I was currently running X.  Couldn't
> these ebuilds test for X before actually starting unpack/compile?
> 
> Aron
> 
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> .
> 
> 

Re: [gentoo-dev] new nvidia ebuild

[Djamil ESSAISSI]

yo i sticked my voodoo3 card back in the win98 box to play CS, and the nvidia back to the linux box, man i'm impressed ! the nvidia actually works better under linux ! where CS crashed non stop with it .
but tell me , the TV-out does it work under all resolutions/frequencies ? i'll be surprised if it does ! so does it ?

peace and grutz

On Mon, 08 Oct 2001 01:18:28 +0200
Morgan Christiansson <sft3905@post.netlink.se> wrote:

:)It worked great for me, even TV-out worked.
:)
:)I was running GNOME on my TV, ain't that cool? :)
:)
:)just had to add:
:)Option      "ConnectedMonitor"  "TV"
:)
:)There's some hardware mouse shading stuff too but i haven't checked that
:)out as it requires restarting X and i don't want all my precious apps to
:)die :/
:)
:)
:)Aron Griffis wrote:
:)
:)> Hi Daniel,
:)> 
:)> Daniel Robbins wrote:	[Sat Oct 06 2001, 10:18:14AM EST]
:)> 
:)>>This ebuild contains the latest accelerated nvidia drivers and OpenGL
:)>>1.2 implementation, as well as a devfs patch.  To use them, exit X,
:)>>emerge this package, and then configure /etc/X11/XF86Config
:)>>appropriately (basically just change the "Device" "driver" setting to
:)>>"nvidia").  Then load the NVdriver kernel module, start X and you
:)>>should have very fast, rock-solid accelerated video under XFree86.
:)>>
:)> 
:)> I don't have an nvidia card, but this ebuild brings up an interesting
:)> question.  I have attempted to emerge glibc a couple times, only to
:)have
:)> it bomb out at the end because I was currently running X.  Couldn't
:)> these ebuilds test for X before actually starting unpack/compile?
:)> 
:)> Aron
:)> 
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:)> gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org
:)> http://cvs.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev
:)> 
:)> .
:)> 
:)> 
:)
:)
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Re: [gentoo-dev] new nvidia ebuild

[Dan Armak]

On Monday 08 October 2001 11:53, you wrote:
> yo i sticked my voodoo3 card back in the win98 box to play CS, and the
> nvidia back to the linux box, man i'm impressed ! the nvidia actually works
> better under linux ! where CS crashed non stop with it . but tell me , the
> TV-out does it work under all resolutions/frequencies ? i'll be surprised
> if it does ! so does it ?
AFAIK it does. You should check the nVidia drvers' readme, it's in 
/usr/doc/NVIDIA-version/... and tv-out is one of he appendixes.

-- 

Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
Matan, Israel