[arch-general] testing xorg packages may not be nvidia friendly
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 -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide@gmail.com>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
-- Caleb Cushing
Nvidia has not released a driver for xorg 1.8 in regards to a legacy driver. The only one working so far afaik is the 'nvidia' driver itself. This is one thing preventing 1.8 moving out of testing.
On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 17:47 -0500, Burlynn Corlew Jr wrote:
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide@gmail.com>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
-- Caleb Cushing
Nvidia has not released a driver for xorg 1.8 in regards to a legacy driver. The only one working so far afaik is the 'nvidia' driver itself. This is one thing preventing 1.8 moving out of testing.
As well as nvidia-beta. Though that's not in the repos. Just for completeness.
On 05/13/2010 04:54 PM, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 17:47 -0500, Burlynn Corlew Jr wrote:
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Caleb Cushing<xenoterracide@gmail.com>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
-- Caleb Cushing
Nvidia has not released a driver for xorg 1.8 in regards to a legacy driver. The only one working so far afaik is the 'nvidia' driver itself. This is one thing preventing 1.8 moving out of testing.
As well as nvidia-beta. Though that's not in the repos. Just for completeness.
AUR's nvidia-beta== 195.36.24 (same as nvidia in testing)
On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 08:41 -0600, jwbirdsong wrote:
On 05/13/2010 04:54 PM, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 17:47 -0500, Burlynn Corlew Jr wrote:
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Caleb Cushing<xenoterracide@gmail.com>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
-- Caleb Cushing
Nvidia has not released a driver for xorg 1.8 in regards to a legacy driver. The only one working so far afaik is the 'nvidia' driver itself. This is one thing preventing 1.8 moving out of testing.
As well as nvidia-beta. Though that's not in the repos. Just for completeness.
AUR's nvidia-beta== 195.36.24 (same as nvidia in testing)
Ah. Last I checked repos was 196.36.15. Thanks.
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.
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.
participants (6)
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Burlynn Corlew Jr
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Caleb Cushing
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Jan de Groot
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jwbirdsong
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Ng Oon-Ee
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Thomas Bächler