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On Sun, May 11 2014, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> I copied the two messages, and compared them side-by-each in xterms. |
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I had done exactly that prior to posting |
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> When X realizes that you have an Nvidia card, and no xorg.conf, it sets |
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> up a list of all drivers that could possibly work with your card, and |
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> goes around probing, trying to find them... |
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> The NG version reports... |
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> [ 20.299] (II) LoadModule: "nouveau" |
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> [ 20.314] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/nouveau_drv.so |
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> [ 20.537] (II) LoadModule: "nv" |
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> [ 20.537] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/nv_drv.so |
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> [ 20.607] (II) Module nv: vendor="X.Org Foundation" |
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> ***IT'S LOADING BOTH NOUVEAU AND NV (NVIDIA BINARY BLOB) DRIVERS***. |
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I am embarrassed to report that I missed that (perhaps nv is the nv |
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nvidia; but in any case it is loading two drivers, which is bad). |
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Thank you very much for this catch |
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> Plan A) unmerge the Nvidia binary drivers |
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I had done that initially |
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> Plan B) if Plan A fails, manually remove |
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> /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/nv_drv.so |
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This helped considerably. No grey bands; instead gdm puts up its |
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screensaver and tells us the (correct) time. Moving the mouse moves the |
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pointer and clicking on the upper right button shows the volume etc. |
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> Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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I realize you don't use gdm/gnome. But perhaps someone has seen the |
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following problem. |
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To release the screensaver, the current gnome wants you to press mouse |
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button1 and move the mouse up (as with phones and tablets). This fails |
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to end the screensaver, instead the pointer just moves (as though the |
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mouse button wasn't pressed). I tried two mice with the same result. |
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I changed DISPLAYMANAGER to xdm in /etc/conf.d/xdm and restarted xdm |
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(this machine has not yet been converted to systemd). I could enter |
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username and password, but then the login screen simply reappeared. |
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This occurred for both root and my normal user. |
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Thank you again walter. |
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allan |
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