Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 17 May 2009 19:10:05 bn wrote:
>> Dale ha scritto:
>> > I hope someone wins the debate soon and gets this to work and be "user
>> > friendly".  I'm about to make a fresh backup and try this again.  I have
>> > upgraded my kernel to a really new version, 2.6.25.  Sorry, nvidia won't
>> > compile with anything newer that I have tried.
>>
>> Uh? last nvidia-drivers needs 2.6.25 kernel?
>
> Dale has an old video card and needs one of the nvidia legacy driver releases.
> He finds that that release doesn't work with kernels after .25

Humm....now I'm getting interested. I just did an emerge -DuN world to
my dad's machine in Southern California last night. He's got a 6 year
old machine with an old nvidia card that's no longer supported by the
newest drivers so the emerge messages tell me that I have to use an
older legacy version of the driver. Thing is I have him on
gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r4 using nvidia-drivers-96.43.09. Everything
seems to be working from here. I see the driver in memory. I Can run X
apps remotely.

gandalf ~ # uname -a
Linux gandalf 2.6.29-gentoo-r4 #3 PREEMPT Sun May 17 06:58:58 PDT 2009
i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
gandalf ~ #

gandalf ~ # emerge -pv nvidia-drivers

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-96.43.09  USE="acpi gtk
-custom-cflags (-multilib)" 0 kB

Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
gandalf ~ #

I guess my question is whether he's going to have issues. He's really
bad about reporting this stuff to me and I'm not there to see the
screen or use the system.

I don't see much  in /var/log/Xorg.0.log other than a complaint about
GLX and freetype. freetype I can fix. GLX I haven't looked into.

Any problems?

Thanks,
Mark