the new drivers solve the nvidia problems with newer kernels too

On 7/8/06, Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> Alan E. Davis wrote:
> > I haven't noticed this ebuild before.  I am seeing a new ebuild in
> >
> >   /usr/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers
> >
> > Can someone explain this?  I can only hope this is the end of a long
> > and troubling issue with xorg and nvidia-kernel.  ????  I fear not,
> > however: (I am running with ~amd64)
>
> The nvidia driver maintainers decided to switch them to a single ebuild,
> since it matches how they're distributed and makes a number of issues
> easier related to maintainance, FreeBSD drivers and, for users, version
> mismatches between kernel module and userland driver.
>
> Also note the new nvidia-legacy-drivers package for older cards, so you
> don't need to fiddle around with package.mask anymore.
>
> > |  RDEPEND="kernel_linux? ( virtual/modutils |
> > |         || ( x11-base/xorg-server virtual/x11 |
> > |         !>=x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.99
> > |         || ( media-libs/mesa virtual/x11 )
> > |         app-admin/eselect-opengl
> > |         kernel_linux? ( !media-video/nvidia-kernel )
> > |         kernel_FreeBSD? ( !media-video/nvidia-freebsd )
> > |         !app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-nvidia
> > |         !x11-drivers/nvidia-legacy-drivers
> > |         !media-video/nvidia-glx"
> >
> > Maybe I just didn't notice this before?  I think not, however.  I have
> > found a couple of messages on the forum referring to nvidia-drivers as
> > a new replacement (??) for nvidia-kernel/nvidia-glx.  Does this mean a
> > major xorg downgrade?
>
> No binary drivers currently exist for use with xorg 7.1, so you'll need
> to downgrade xorg-server to 1.0.x and any drivers (`emerge portage-utils
> && qlist -I x11-drivers/`) if you want binary drivers. That's what's
> holding 7.1 from being marked stable on x86 and amd64.
>
> > I have nvidia drivers and glx working pretty well, with only very
> > minimal redrawing issues maybe two or three times over the last 24
> > hours.  Should one avoid any upgrade, or what?  If so, HOW?
>
> Uninstall nvidia-* and install nvidia-drivers.
>
> Thanks,
> Donnie
>
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