How to set -ignoreABI on Xserver (F9) to make nvidia-driver happy?

Sjoerd Mullender sjoerd at acm.org
Fri May 16 10:36:03 UTC 2008


Jouk Jansen wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Today I installed F9 on my machine and tried to get the Nvidia-#D driver
> from livna-testing (I installed the akmod-version).
> It refuses to start X. According to the Xorg.log I have to add -ignoreABI to
> the server startup : How should I do that??

The trick I use is basically:
# mv /usr/bin/Xorg /usr/bin/Xorg.save
# echo 'exec /usr/bin/Xorg.save -ignoreABI "$@"' > /usr/bin/Xorg
# chmod +x /usr/bin/Xorg

Works like a charm.

-- 
Sjoerd Mullender

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