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

Marc Schwartz marc_schwartz at comcast.net
Fri May 16 14:11:12 UTC 2008


"Erich Zigler" <ezigler at gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 5:26 AM, Jouk Jansen <joukj at hrem.nano.tudelft.nl> wrote:
>
>> 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??
>
> Does the nvidia driver from livna-testing allow 3D? I see some people
> say it does and some people say it does not.

No.  nVidia has not yet released a driver (even beta) that supports 3D under F9's
version of Xorg, thus, I don't know how Livna could have one.

I am using 173.08 and have been booting to init 3 and then using:

     startx -- -ignoreABI

to get into X.

HTH,

Marc Schwartz




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