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| 5 | <guide link="/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml"> |
5 | <guide link="/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml"> |
| 6 | <title>Gentoo Linux nVidia Guide</title> |
6 | <title>Gentoo Linux nVidia Guide</title> |
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| 27 | <!-- The content of this document is licensed under the CC-BY-SA license --> |
27 | <!-- The content of this document is licensed under the CC-BY-SA license --> |
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28 | <!-- See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 --> |
| 29 | <license/> |
29 | <license/> |
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| 31 | <version>1.35</version> |
31 | <version>1.36</version> |
| 32 | <date>2007-11-15</date> |
32 | <date>2008-03-06</date> |
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| 34 | <chapter> |
34 | <chapter> |
| 35 | <title>Introduction</title> |
35 | <title>Introduction</title> |
| 36 | <section> |
36 | <section> |
| 37 | <body> |
37 | <body> |
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| 163 | < > nVidia Framebuffer Support |
163 | < > nVidia Framebuffer Support |
| 164 | < > nVidia Riva support |
164 | < > nVidia Riva support |
| 165 | </pre> |
165 | </pre> |
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| 167 | <p> |
167 | <p> |
| 168 | A good framebuffer alternative is <c>VESA</c>: |
168 | A framebuffer alternative is <c>VESA</c>: |
| 169 | </p> |
169 | </p> |
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| 171 | <pre caption="Enable VESA support"> |
171 | <pre caption="Enable VESA support"> |
| 172 | Device Drivers ---> |
172 | Device Drivers ---> |
| 173 | Graphics Support ---> |
173 | Graphics Support ---> |
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174 | [*] VESA VGA graphics support |
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175 | </pre> |
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177 | <p> |
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178 | Or, you may want to try <c>uvesafb</c>, an <uri |
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179 | link="http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/">advanced |
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180 | framebuffer</uri>. Note that you can choose to compile it into your kernel, or |
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181 | as a module. The following example compiles uvesafb into the kernel. |
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182 | </p> |
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184 | <pre caption="Enable uvesafb support"> |
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185 | Device Drivers ---> |
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186 | Graphics Support ---> |
| 174 | <*> VESA VGA graphics support |
187 | <*> Userspace VESA VGA graphics support |
| 175 | </pre> |
188 | </pre> |
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| 178 | Then, under "VESA driver type" select either <c>vesafb</c> or |
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| 179 | <c>vesafb-tng</c>. If you are using an AMD64 processor, you should select |
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| 180 | <c>vesafb</c> rather than <c>vesafb-tng</c>: |
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| 181 | </p> |
190 | <p> |
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191 | For more information, you can look up the documentation for your chosen |
| 183 | <pre caption="Select framebuffer type"> |
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| 184 | (X) vesafb |
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| 185 | ( ) vesafb-tng |
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| 186 | </pre> |
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| 187 | |
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| 188 | <p> |
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| 189 | For more information, you can read up |
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| 190 | <path>/usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt</path> if you are using |
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| 191 | <c>vesafb</c> or look for your framebuffer documentation under |
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| 192 | <path>/usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/</path>. |
192 | framebuffer in <path>/usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/</path>. |
| 193 | </p> |
193 | </p> |
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194 | |
| 195 | </body> |
195 | </body> |
| 196 | </section> |
196 | </section> |
| 197 | <section> |
197 | <section> |
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