Re: xserver-xorg (1:7.2.ds3-1) to 1:7.3~rc1 fails with orig. NVIDIA 9639 driver.

Michel, read my posting and do not answer your own thoughts. Cheers Norbert Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > That's your choice, but again you have to accept the consequences. > There's just no way for the packaging system to accommodate unpackaged > software working around it. >

Re: xserver-xorg (1:7.2.ds3-1) to 1:7.3~rc1 fails with orig. NVIDIA 9639 driver.

On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 20:39 +0200, Norbert Breun wrote: > > not sure what your intention is. Mine never was or is to blame > anybody. Neither is mine, just to rectify factually incorrect claims. > Fact is on the other hand: My system runs since 7 years and it runs > more or less comfortably wit

Re: xserver-xorg (1:7.2.ds3-1) to 1:7.3~rc1 fails with orig. NVIDIA 9639 driver.

Michel, not sure what your intention is. Mine never was or is to blame anybody. What I do is asking to think about a small step that is used by a rather high number of developers. It will not do any harm to whatever. Fact is on the other hand: My system runs since 7 years and it runs more or l

Re: xserver-xorg (1:7.2.ds3-1) to 1:7.3~rc1 fails with orig. NVIDIA 9639 driver.

On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 18:16 +0200, Norbert Breun wrote: > > you are right if you look at the past 2 years (possibly more, I can't > recall it). I remember times when X.org did not provide these modules > at all and NVIDIA did. I'm pretty sure XFree86 shipped these modules before the nvidia driver

Re: xserver-xorg (1:7.2.ds3-1) to 1:7.3~rc1 fails with orig. NVIDIA 9639 driver.

On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 22:09 +0200, Norbert Breun wrote: > > A disadvantage is that xorg packages replace the files libGLcore.so > and libglx.so in /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions not using symlinks. > This leads to permanent struggle with NVIDIA installation which per > default uses symlinks and

Re: xserver-xorg (1:7.2.ds3-1) to 1:7.3~rc1 fails with orig. NVIDIA 9639 driver.

On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 22:09:19 +0200, Norbert Breun wrote: > Hi Brice, > > > thanks for your fast reply! > > > In the meantime I googled a workaround where to set "-ignoreABI". > There's a reason the ABI version has changed. IIRC, it's because the nvidia driver uses some interface which wa

Re: xserver-xorg (1:7.2.ds3-1) to 1:7.3~rc1 fails with orig. NVIDIA 9639 driver.

Hi Brice, thanks for your fast reply! In the meantime I googled a workaround where to set "-ignoreABI". (http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_XOrg_7.1_With_Older_NVidia_Drivers#Running_X) And I tried to use the libGL modules del

Re: xserver-xorg (1:7.2.ds3-1) to 1:7.3~rc1 fails with orig. NVIDIA 9639 driver.

Norbert Breun wrote: > > xserver-xorg-core (2:1.3.0.0.dfsg-12) to 2:1.3.99.0-2 > > > I am using the NVIDIA drivers NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9639-pkg1. > > > Having upgraded to above packages I get following error + X does not > start: > >[31] 0 0 0x03c0 - 0x03df (0x20) IS[B](

xserver-xorg (1:7.2.ds3-1) to 1:7.3~rc1 fails with orig. NVIDIA 9639 driver.

Hi there, xserver-xorg (1:7.2.ds3-1) to 1:7.3~rc1 xserver-xorg-core (2:1.3.0.0.dfsg-12) to 2:1.3.99.0-2 xserver-xorg-input-kbd (1:1.2.0-1+1.2.1) to 1:1.2.0-2 xserver-xorg-input-mouse (1:1.2.2-1) to 1:1.2.2-2 xserver-xorg-video-nv (1:2.1.3-1) to 1:2.1.3-3 I am using the NVIDIA drivers NVIDIA-L