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On Sunday 05 August 2007, a tiny voice compelled Volker Armin Hemmann to |
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> On Sonntag, 5. August 2007, Ernie Schroder wrote: |
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> > On Sunday 05 August 2007, a tiny voice compelled Volker Armin Hemmann to |
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> > write: |
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> > > On Sonntag, 5. August 2007, Ernie Schroder wrote: |
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> > > > A few days ago I ran my updates and nvidia-settings was updated to |
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> > > > 1.0.20070302 All was good until last night. I openen konqueror to |
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> > > > browse my home dir and I got a mime-type error and no files |
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> > > > displayed. Trying to do konqueror /home/ernie gave me errors that I |
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> > > > can't quote but mime types was mentioned again. Assuming that |
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> > > > something was just hung up I did top which showed X using 95% cpu |
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> > > > Killing java_vm, firefox, kmail and any suspected cpu hogs had no |
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> > > > effect so I killed X and attempted to restart it. |
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> > > |
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> > > 'suspected'? ps aux, and/or (h)top should show you the hog. |
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> > only "X" showed high cpu usage. No associated apps were above what I'm |
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> > used to seeing. |
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> > |
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> > > > nvidia-drivers is currently at 100.14.09. I need advice getting this |
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> > > > straight. Is there a file where nvidia-settings keeps config |
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> > > |
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> > > ~/.nvidia-settings-rc |
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> > showed the file was generated back in 2004 and hasn't been modified since |
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> > 7/2/04 |
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> so what? maybe the latest nvidia-settings does not like the old file? You |
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> can just move it someone and try... |
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> > > > data other |
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> > > > than xorg.conf? should I update to the masked |
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> > > > nvidia-drivers-100.14.11 ? |
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> > > |
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> > > yes. |
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> > |
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> > NO! The newer drivers build but warn of MTRR support lacking on my card. |
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> and you have checked that you have mtrr support in the kernel? |
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first thing |
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> > Funny I thought that it was there. It's a gforce4 ti 4200. |
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> > I had to revert to nvidia-drivers-1.0.9639. I guess the drivers got |
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> > updated in a previous update and I missed the warnings. Funny it worked |
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> > for over a week. |
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> emm, you might want to look up about 'legacy drivers' and 'supported |
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> cards'. |
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There you go. For my card I have to stick with the 1.0.96xx series drivers. |
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might be time to look at building a new box. |
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Regards, Ernie |
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