Xorg errs after updating ports

Frank Shute frank at esperance-linux.co.uk
Sun Sep 16 09:28:14 PDT 2007


On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 08:45:29AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
>
> Quoting from /usr/ports/UPDATING (which may itself have been updated
> after you did your ports download, so you may not yet have this advice
> on your hard disk):
> 
>   Users of nvidia-driver will have to make sure Composite extension is
>   turned off and start Xorg with the following command:
> 
>   $ startx -- -ignoreABI
> 
>   The -ignoreABI option is a Xorg option. If you're using gdm, kdm or
>   xdm, you will have to modify your configuration file so that Xorg
>   starts with this option.
> 
>   An updated nvidia-driver should be released soon.

I thought from the parent post that he was using the nv driver (the
free Xorg one: nv(4x)) and not the commercial one which I believe is
named nvidia in xorg.conf.

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 Frank 

	
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