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From: Philip Webb <purslow@sympatico.ca>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Help!  Xorg broken!
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 20:35:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061017003555.GA5829@sympatico.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <28107049.1161042131647.JavaMail.root@elwamui-polski.atl.sa.earthlink.net>

061016 Jeff Cranmer wrote:
> I am running gentoo kernel 2.6.15-r1
> I recently updated xorg, and installed the new nvidia-drivers package.
> Xorg now appears to be horribly broken.
> The nvidia splash screen appears, then it faults out back to the command line.

I've had no problem with Xorg-x11 7.1 + Nvidia-drivers-1.0.8774 .
I'm using Kernel 2.6.18 , so the 1st thing to try is a kernel update.
Make sure you check the ACPI section when configuring it
& recompile the Nvidia drivers for the new kernel.

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-17  0:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-16 23:42 [gentoo-user] Help! Xorg broken! Jeff Cranmer
2006-10-17  0:35 ` Philip Webb [this message]
2006-10-17  1:12 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-10-17  1:14 ` [gentoo-user] " Sven Köhler
2006-10-17  3:27 ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Hodges

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