Re: nvidia 8756 driver ?

Yehudi Levine ha scritto:

 > I have installed the new drakxtools packages and reconfigured my FX5200
 > card using XFdrake. This generates an xorg.conf file using the Virtual
 > syntax. So I changed all the Virtuals to Mode manually and reran
 > XFdrake. Now my card is recognised as a frame-grabber and when I change
 > the configuration to nvidia, the virtual statements return.
 >
 > Just for fun I installed the packages on the updatecd.idx list , which I
 > got off the  mirrors. Odd things happen. The ghostscript-common package
 > conflicted with previous installations and the ghostript packages could
 > only be installed with the -U option. In addition I had to install a
 > number of packages from cooker to be able to refresh the gutenberg and
 > foomatic updates.

probably because newer ghostscript from community 2006
has been further splitten and now uses the lib64gs-*.

 >
 > Also, the update cd contains the 4.0.1-5mdk gcc packages, but the
 > 2.6.12-19mdk kernel was compiled with the 4.0.3 version. Should the
 > latter packages be included instead?

An application complaining about this latter stuff is vmware
when recompiling vmnet modules.

Bye.
Giuseppe.