Talk:HOWTO nVidia Drivers
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Hi. About to set up the drivers on my own system. It may sound minor, but in the kernel setup section, how about making a note about how this is enabled if you used genkernel to create your kernel? I would do it myself, but seeing as how I won´t be able to install this until tonight, I am about to find out if it is/isn´t...
I just changed from ATI to nVidia so I came here looking for info, I installed the old nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel packages, then I noticed at the end they said there was a new package which combines the two, so I checked it out and set it them up. So based on my new knowledge, I have added the info for the new package x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers and how to unmask it, so it could now be considered merged, I think it needed to be done, because people need to know how to get the latest drivers installed, also think these drivers take to long to get marked stable, its the same with nVidia. I have ran the latest testing ATI drivers for years, and now that I am running an nVidia card I expect to do the same. Admiral Trigger Happy 03:08, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
Regarding UDev Users: Fix Device Creation Problem, I didn't have to do this despite using sys-fs/udev-103 --Netset99 21:18, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
Zaai 21:27, 21 March 2007 (UTC) The GForce4 TI4200 is supported by the 9600 series drivers. The 9700 series no longer supports this card.
See the note in: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=87714
[edit] upgrade
I upgraded to 2.6.20 and module was gone. So if somebody has similar problems - try depmod ;)
[edit] The "dri" USE flag, etc
It is always mentioned to disable the dri option in xorg.conf, but there is nothing said about DRI (or DRM) options in the kernel or the dri use flag. Anything regarding DRI or DRM would only be an unnecessary burden, right? (Correct me if I'm wrong, please.) So I thought some notes about that would be appropriate. I won't add it myself, because I'm not 100% sure about it. The reason I mention it is because I assume there at least some users out there who, like me, enable kernel options and add in use flags for fear of missing out on some great feature. :) Sometimes we need to be reminded of what we don't need.
[edit] using the nvidia installer
Just wanted to drop a note, if you used nvidias own installer (from nvidia.org) and then try to install a newer driver via portage you are bound to fail. some libraries (nvidia-tls) are not updated. I haven't looked into this intensively, but maybe this should be mentioned in the article. (Sucked for me ;) )
