Am 17.05.2010 10:55, schrieb Jan de Groot:
On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 18:37 -0400, Caleb Cushing wrote:
I tried installing testing on a box running nvidia drivers that I have at school. X didn't come up. I don't know why and didn't really investigate (as I was really testing to see if my box at home had an env issue seems it does). using nvidia-173xx-utils
For the legacy drivers you need to make an xorg.conf that sets "IgnoreABI" in the serverflags. Nvidia hasn't released official drivers for xorg-server 1.8.
I doubt that will work. It worked for the old version of the nvidia driver, because it included support for the ABI of the xorg-server 1.8 prerelease. The legacy drivers have been released a long time ago, they certainly won't support any 1.8 ABI, not even the prerelease one. IgnoreABI will probably just lead to X server crashes.