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List:       freedesktop-xorg
Subject:    Re: Need help with M$ touchmouse
From:       Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith () oracle ! com>
Date:       2014-12-07 23:59:57
Message-ID: 5484E9FD.7010901 () oracle ! com
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On 12/ 7/14 03:55 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 06 December 2014 14:27:34 Alan Coopersmith did opine
> And Gene did reply:
>> On 12/ 5/14 10:31 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> And it is still unloading the nv driver, which I_thought_  was the
>>> nvidia driver.
>>
>> "nv" is the old open source xf86-video-nv driver, which nvidia used to
>> provide updates to, but just enough to get the system up and running
>> to install their closed source "nvidia" driver.   They've stopped that
>> and now recommend the vesa driver for such bootstrapping instead.
>>
>> "nouveau" is the current open source driver for nvidia chipsets, if you
>> have the required nouveau kernel driver available for it.
>
> Yes, but no one (I've not looked all that hard though) has given me a url
> where I might be able to pull a fresher Xorg install from.  Tarball or
> deb, tarball probably better because configure would check and make me
> update what it needs.

http://www.x.org/releases/individual/ has all the tarballs you could ever
want, and many you never will.

For .debs, that's better suited for asking someone who uses the same
distro you do.

-- 
	-Alan Coopersmith-              alan.coopersmith@oracle.com
	 Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc
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