nvidia binary driver 6111-r2 with gentoo

hi everybody,
the newest binary driver that comes from nvidia hangs, when going from X back to console. That is true, if installed as-is (i mean as downloaded from nvidia page). but if you install it in gentoo, it works just fine together with vesafb-tng (for info on vesafb-tng look at recent issue of this maillinglist). so how to install it in gentoo? nothing much hard, the only problem is that normally installation complains about missing MTRR and exits. we have just to change this behaviour. so edit the ebuild file associated with our driver

/usr/portage/media-video/nvidia-kernel/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6111-r2.ebuild

and delete the line :

die "MTRR support not detected!"

thats all. then as usual 'emerge nvidia-kernel'. you have also to install nvidia-glx to use it with X.
note: you have to set ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" in /etc/make.conf to enable build of this latest driver.
question: why it is useful to install this driver with emerge ?
        * emerge applies a bunch of patches to this driver that, for example allow us to use it with kernels >= 2.6.9
        *and with those patches it does not hang switching back to the console :)

nice day to you, balique

note: you can use patches made for gentoo also in manual install of the driver, which means also with other distributions. patches are on gentoo servers in 'portage/media-video/nvidia-kernel/files/1.0.6111/'. then download the binary driver, launch with --extractonly option and apply patches (cat some_patch | patch -p0 ) in the directory containing just-extracted NVIDIA.......pkg.

ps: should i write a little article on hibernation ? works fine with nv driver ( but not with nvidia driver :((, but it was said it will with the next release of nvidia bin drivers )
Received on Fri Nov 5 16:07:28 2004