Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Heads Up Kernel-3.11 Nvidia-drivers

[Dale]

Mark Knecht wrote:
> Great info Nikos. Thanks. I'm a bit thrown by a new Gentoo-Linux
> option in the kernel but it looks like a good move long term for the
> distro. Just have to test that I didn't break anything basic. My
> machine here is getting into an Nvidia pickle that so far I've been
> unable to get out of. Problem is I'm not sure where to go but I
> haven't really asked anyone as I wasn't even quite sure how to
> approach the problem. I'm not necessarily looking for a technical
> solution today. Really I'm just interested in how others would
> approach the problem. Currently I'm running gentoo-sources-3.8.13 with
> nvidia-drivers-313.30. For whatever reason my long running xorg.conf
> file will no longer run with any nvidia driver newer than 313.30. X
> just doesn't run. Based on your post I just built 3.10.7 and it
> appears that 313.30 isn't supported with this newer kernel so pretty
> soon I'm gonna have problems... Possible directions to go: 1) Fix
> xorg.conf. Best solution but so far I haven't been able to do it even
> with help from the Gentoo forums. Where to go? Don't know. Nvidia
> forums maybe? Here? Dunno. 2) Drop nvidia-drivers and try nouveau. May
> be a reasonable video direction - my screen-based video/graphics needs
> are not high - however I have long terms needs of accessing the GPU as
> a compute engine in R so I _think_ I have to stick with nvidia-drivers
> to do that. Maybe not but I don't know at this time and I could deal
> with that later. (I know Duncan's vote, if he's reading, goes here.)
> :-) 3) Buy one or two new VGA cards. I currently run 3 screens, 2 on a
> GTX465 and 1 on a 8400 GS. My trading partner uses 2 8400's without
> issues (so far) so I could dump the GTX465, buy 1 8400 and I'd be OK
> but would lose a lot of compute power. None the less it would likely
> work. 4) Something else... All considered responses welcomed. Cheers,
> Mark


I don't know if it is related or not but I to have issues with Nvidia
drivers and the little KDE panel/kicker thingy at the bottom.  After
being logged in for a while, the panel thing would lock up tight.  The
clock wouldn't update, I couldn't use it to switch desktops, click the K
menu or anything.  The best version I found for a while was this:

x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-313.30

and kernel:

3.9.5-gentoo

Right now I have that kernel version working with:

nvidia-drivers-319.49

I have a Nvidia GeForce GT 220 video card.  I think it has 1GB of ram or
some amount likely larger than I need.  At this point, I can't tell if
it is Nvidia, KDE, or some other mismatch causing this.  Right now, I'm
just sticking with what I know works. 

May not be related but it may help you to compare notes maybe? 

Dale

:-)  :-) 

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