On Thursday 12 November 2009 16:25:20 Arnau Bria wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:57:28 +0200
>
> Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Thursday 12 November 2009 14:33:22 Alex Schuster wrote:
> > > > # grep EE Xorg.0.log
> > > > to load module "freetype" (module does not exist, 0)
> > > > to load module "dri" (module does not exist, 0)
> > > > to load module "dri2" (module does not exist, 0)
> > >
> > > I read something here about dri and dri2 some days ago, but don't
> > > remember. I think they are not needed with nvidia-drivers or
> > > something like that.
> >
> > Yes, dri and dri2 are not used by nvidia-drivers, they implement them
> > itself.
> >
> > But X will still try and look for them.
> >
> > Best way to set up nvidia drivers from scratch is to install and run
> > nvidia- settings
>
> yes, but if nvidia driver make X unoperative, how may I going to be
> able to run nvidia-settings? isn't it a xorg-sevrer/nvidia driver
> relaetd problem? I'm a bit confused...
The ebuild outputs this elog:
echo
elog "You must be in the video group to use the NVIDIA device"
elog "For more info, read the docs at"
elog "http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml#doc_chap3_sect6";
elog
Is the user in the video group?
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