[gentoo-user] Re: Beyond-Gentoo question

[James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com>]

 <meino.cramer <at> gmx.de> writes:



> I am using the propietary nvidia drivers. No problems since now exept
> for the use of makehuman.

I know nothing about nvidia....sorry, I stick with ATI....




> "male_formed" ... sorry James, what does it mean...English isn't my
> mothers tongue...does it mean something like "falsy compiled", "badly
> built"?

English is my first (and only language) and I'm not certain what
'male_formed' means exactly. MY guess is the author of that error message
either has too many things that could be wrong, or did not bother to
be more specific with drilling down into the nature of the error.
My suggestion is it would be best to ask the author of the error message, 
if possible, look deep inside the code with a debugger, or use quite a few
keywords and go goolgling.....

If you can find where in the code (compiling etc) the error is generated
(maybe grepping the sourcecode for "male_formed", then that's a good
place to look deeply at the code to see what is going on.....? (WAG)


> Framebuffers? Hu? I thought, these wre only used when dealing with the
> bare console or when using X in cases there is no support for the
> graphics card. Please give me a hint here...


Another WAG here. Sometimes video games take complete control of the
video (FB).....?

> Is there something else...for example in xorg.conf to switch on or off
> to get this z-buffering working?

goolgling or wait for an experienced NVidia hack to help you.....
Video card vendors are often protective of exactly what various cards
are doing (in hardware) particularly related to 3D and such
advanced features.....

sorry I could not be more specific with the suggestions.


James