Re: [gentoo-user] Help I have b0rked my system :(

[Dave S <gentoo@pusspaws.net>]

Ed Jabbour wrote:

>On Thursday 07 July 2005 02:40 am, Dave S wrote:
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>>>...what about xcompmanager (or whatever it's called)? Is that possibly
>>>running?
>>>
>>>Holly
>>>      
>>>
>>You could be right, Im going out to work now but I tried changing
>>'nvidia' to 'nv' in xorg.conf and everyting returned to normal, I
>>re-emerged nvidia-glx + nvidia-kernel, re-booted, re-tryed 'nvidia' and
>>wierdness returned.
>>
>>Haven't got any more time but will look at it this evening ...
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>If you emerged the nvidia stuff, you got the newest versions.   Do you have 
>the RIVA TNT2 by any chance?  If so, portage now has 1.0.7664, which acc/to 
>NVidia is not compatible with the TNT2.  I use 7174, which works fine.  This 
>would explain why nv works, but nvidia doesn't, and also why your X used to 
>work, but doesn't now.
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>Ed Jabbour
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Strangley my video card is a RIVA TNT2 :)

I checked Nvidias website, apparently TNT2 is OK with *1.0-7667 so I
will give it a go.

Thanks for the tip, I will let you know how it goes

Dave
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