[gentoo-user] Problem with dosbox and latest Nvidia driver plus xorg

[gentoo-user] Problem with dosbox and latest Nvidia driver plus xorg

[Walter Dnes]

  I did an update world yesterday, which updated both nvidia-drivers and
xorg-server.  I'm probably a niche here, but I use dosbox to play ye
olde DOS games.  It's been running fine for the last few months.  But
after the update, a dosbox textmode "fullscreen" is "letterboxed".  I.e.
there is a black bar at the top and at the bottom.  I tried tweaking the
dosbox config, to no avail.  I even locked up the machine in the
process.  Fortunately, Magic-SysReq got me out with a clean reboot.

  My first instinct was to revert from nvidia-drivers-304.64 back to
nvidia-drivers-295.71.  However, that would also force a downgrade from
x11-base/xorg-server-1.13.0-r1 to x11-base/xorg-server-1.12.4, which I
am reluctant to do.  Anybody have any ideas for a better solution?

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
We are apparently better off trying to avoid udev like the plague.
Linus Torvalds; 2012/10/03 https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/3/349

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with dosbox and latest Nvidia driver plus xorg

[Walter Dnes]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 03:50:25PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote
> 
>   My first instinct was to revert from nvidia-drivers-304.64 back to
> nvidia-drivers-295.71.  However, that would also force a downgrade from
> x11-base/xorg-server-1.13.0-r1 to x11-base/xorg-server-1.12.4, which I
> am reluctant to do.  Anybody have any ideas for a better solution?

  I also tried keywording and installing nvidia-drivers-310.19.  No
change at all.

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
We are apparently better off trying to avoid udev like the plague.
Linus Torvalds; 2012/10/03 https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/3/349