On Saturday 06 December 2014 14:27:34 Alan Coopersmith did opine And Gene did reply: > On 12/ 5/14 10:31 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > And it is still unloading the nv driver, which I_thought_ was the > > nvidia driver. > > "nv" is the old open source xf86-video-nv driver, which nvidia used to > provide updates to, but just enough to get the system up and running > to install their closed source "nvidia" driver. They've stopped that > and now recommend the vesa driver for such bootstrapping instead. > > "nouveau" is the current open source driver for nvidia chipsets, if you > have the required nouveau kernel driver available for it.
Yes, but no one (I've not looked all that hard though) has given me a url where I might be able to pull a fresher Xorg install from. Tarball or deb, tarball probably better because configure would check and make me update what it needs. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s
