Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: "Hemmann
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] NVIDIA 100.14.19 + xorg-server 1.4.0.90 + xorg-x11 7.3 = blackscreen after every restart
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 13:49:18
Message-Id: 200712301447.16503.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] NVIDIA 100.14.19 + xorg-server 1.4.0.90 + xorg-x11 7.3 = blackscreen after every restart by Enrico Weigelt
1 On Sonntag, 30. Dezember 2007, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
2 > * Jan Jitse Venselaar <janjitse@×××××.com> wrote:
3 > > I'm having the same problem, with a Geforce 8800 GTS and nvidia-drivers
4 > > 169.04.
5 >
6 > Actually, Nvidia's binary crap *never* worked for me (GeForce Go 6100).
7 > All the versions I tried (all from portage, even the hard masked),
8 > crashed the whole machine (!) a few seconds after the Xserver
9 > came up. Seem their kernel driver is heavily broken.
10
11 maybe it is YOUR HARDWARE that is crap? Overheating? Bad PSU that is not able
12 to reliable power the 3d part of the core?
13
14 hundreds, thousands, maybe millions of nvidia-on-linux users don't have
15 problems. Maybe you should think about that for a moment?
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