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Bug 258236 - nvidia-drivers-71.86.07 lower colors problem with NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 card
Summary: nvidia-drivers-71.86.07 lower colors problem with NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 card
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 258035
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: Lowest critical (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers
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Reported: 2009-02-08 21:31 UTC by John Dolmayan
Modified: 2009-02-10 00:58 UTC (History)
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Description John Dolmayan 2009-02-08 21:31:54 UTC
> Sounds like a problem with your config, something is making it default to a
> lower color depth. Also, 71.86.06 doesn't support kernel 2.6.27, use the newer
> ones for that.
> 
I've been reading about this (71.86.06 doesn't support kernel 2.6.27) and now
I'm using 71.86.07 (next stable no-masked version) but the problem is the lower
color. This the final message when I install this one.

 * QA Notice: make jobserver unavailable:
 * 
 *      make[2]: warning: jobserver unavailable: using -j1.  Add `+' to parent
make rule.

 * QA Notice: The following files contain executable stacks
 *  Files with executable stacks will not work properly (or at all!)
 *  on some architectures/operating systems.  A bug should be filed
 *  at http://bugs.gentoo.org/ to make sure the file is fixed.
 *  For more information, see http://hardened.gentoo.org/gnu-stack.xml
 *  Please include the following list of files in your report:
 * !WX --- --- usr/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA.a:NVXVMC.o

>>> Installing x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-71.86.07
 * Removing x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-71.86.07 from moduledb.
Switching to nvidia OpenGL interface... done
 * Updating module dependencies for 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 ...                  [ ok
]
 * Adding module to moduledb.
Switching to nvidia OpenGL interface... done

 * To use the Nvidia GLX, run "eselect opengl set nvidia"
 * 
 * nVidia has requested that any bug reports submitted have the
 * output of /usr/bin/nvidia-bug-report.sh included.
 * 
 * To work with compiz, you must enable the AddARGBGLXVisuals option.
 * 
 * If you are having resolution problems, try disabling DynamicTwinView.

>>> Auto-cleaning packages...

>>> No outdated packages were found on your system.

 * GNU info directory index is up-to-date.
Comment 1 John Dolmayan 2009-02-08 21:32:33 UTC
// more info here

INFO: setup
Determining the location of the kernel source code
Found kernel source directory:
    /usr/src/linux
Found kernel object directory:
    /lib/modules/2.6.27-gentoo-r8/build
Found sources for kernel version:
    2.6.27-gentoo-r8
Checking for MTRR support ...

INFO: unpack
Applying NVIDIA_glx-defines.patch ...
Applying NVIDIA_glx-glheader.patch ...
Converting NVIDIA-Linux-x86-71.86.07-pkg0/usr/src/nv/Makefile.kbuild to use M= instead of SUBDIRS= ...

INFO: compile
Preparing nvidia module

INFO: install
Installing nvidia module

INFO: postinst
Updating module dependencies for 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 ...
Adding module to moduledb.

LOG: postinst
To use the Nvidia GLX, run "eselect opengl set nvidia"

nVidia has requested that any bug reports submitted have the
output of /usr/bin/nvidia-bug-report.sh included.

To work with compiz, you must enable the AddARGBGLXVisuals option.

If you are having resolution problems, try disabling DynamicTwinView.

Comment 2 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-02-10 00:58:00 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 258035 ***