If you experience screen flickering at random times you can try adding
(for copy&paste check the “)
to /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-kernel-nkc (Ubuntu) in order to fix some timer problems between the driver and compiz-fusion.
It took me a long time to finally see this solution here:
(I am using (x)ubuntu here, but emerge in gentoo should be as useful as the debian-pkg-management (synaptics))
Check if you have the right card (“lspci -v”):
00:10.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88w8335 [Libertas] 802.11b/g Wireless (rev 03)
Subsystem: Netgear WG311v3 802.11g Wireless PCI Adapter
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 9
Memory at e8010000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Get ndiswrapper-common and ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 over synaptics/ubuntu-pkgm.
Get the .inf-File from your Driver-CD (winxp-ver). If you don’t want to search it through your cd-collection just use the one from ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net. It should work for sure.
sudo ndiswrapper -i <your-inf-file-here.inf>
Check if everything is fine:
ndiswrapper -l
mrv8000c : driver installed
device (11AB:1FAA) present
Create your “driver-module” with ndiswrapper.
ndiswrapper -m
Add it to the Kernel.
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
Add ndiswrapper to /etc/modules (may vary for your distribution) for autoloading at boot time.
If you receive
/usr/libexec/cups/filter/foomatic-rip failed
you could try
emerge --unmerge ghostscript-gpl cups foomatic-db \ foomatic-db-engine foomatic-db-ppds foomatic-filters \ foomatic-filters-ppds foomatic-gui emerge -va cups
Cups seems to use it’s own filters (less but one for different printers) then. Works perfectly now.
I got these options activated
X dbus jpeg nls pam php png samba
but not especially for cups (-> /etc/make.conf)