Re: Problem getting xfree to work ( on gentoo )

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Hi,

Am Montag, 22. März 2004 14:57 schrieb David Eduardo Gomez Noguera:
> On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 22:09, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
> >   The GeForceFX 5700 is technically not supported by the "nv" driver
> > prior to XFree86 4.4.  XFree86 4.3's "nv" driver will try to treat it
> > as an older card and start up anyhow, but in the case of the
> > 5700, that doesn't work (except for digital flat panels, where it
> > kindof works).  It's works fine with XFree86 4.4.
> >
> >
> > 			Mark.
>
> Thank you.
> That might be it. I have exatly FX5700 card. Dont remember exactly what
> X version does gentoo tries to install, but I think thats it.
>
> My Moderboard has an integrated intel video card (hope that works with
> 4.3's thoug ;) ). I will try to see if I can get both living happyly
> together (integrated video is dissabled now)
>
> Uhm. What else could I do if gentoo has not updated its version?
> I think I need to read a bit more on its portage...
>
> Thank you again for the pointer.

there's an ebuild +  instructions available at:
http://media.homelinux.org/gentoo
Gentoo will not include 4.4.0 in portage because of license issues they have. 
I use the ebuild above on various machines and it works perfectly.

HTH,
Michael

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