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I've never been able to use the drivers at the portage tree for my |
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nvidia card, always used the ones downloaded directly from their |
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website, because the ones from portage gave me errors. Besides the |
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task to redo the installation each time I recompile the kernel, there |
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were no problems, ever. |
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Try it. |
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On 7/20/05, Daevid Vincent <daevid@××××××.com> wrote: |
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> I tried to switch my window manager to Gnome and also XFCE (both worked fine |
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> before too) and that didn't solve the problem, so I don't think it's a KDE |
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> thing. But I have had KDE problems before as you suggest with other nvidia |
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> drivers. |
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> |
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> > -----Original Message----- |
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> > From: Richard Fish [mailto:bigfish@××××××××××.org] |
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> > Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 10:18 PM |
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> > To: gentoo-user@l.g.o |
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> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Xwindows stopped working. No |
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> > errors in Xorg log file. |
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> > |
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> > Daevid Vincent wrote: |
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> > |
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> > >I run a pretty stable system. I do however run ~x86 for KDE |
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> > and Gnome. |
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> > >Something changed recently in an "emerge -Davu world" or |
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> > "system" that |
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> > >causes X to not start anymore? The Xorg log below doesn't |
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> > have any errors or |
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> > >warnings or anything. There are no unresolved symbols as the |
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> > message says. I |
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> > >did notice that glib was updated, but the |
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> > "3242-glibc-2.3.5.log" doesn't say |
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> > >anything interesting. I ran "rm -rf /root/.revdep-rebuild.*; |
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> > revdep-rebuild |
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> > >-av" and that said I was golden, it didn't re-compile a |
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> > single thing. |
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> > > |
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> > > |
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> > |
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> > One of the things we just discovered on this list is that |
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> > newer versions |
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> > of KDE are trying to use things like the Composite extension, |
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> > and it is |
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> > causing problems for some people (slowness was the previous case). |
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> > Some things to try: |
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> > |
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> > 1. Disable Composite. |
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> > 2. Disable DRI. |
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> > 3. Try the x.org "nv" driver instead of "nvidia". |
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> > |
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> > Depending upon whether and which one of those work, you will have a |
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> > place to start from on more debugging. |
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> > -Richard |
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> > >I usually use 'meld' (x-windows) for my etc-update, so I do |
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> > have some files |
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> > >that need updating, but they don't seem that they should affect X?? |
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> > Probably not...more likely opengl or composite is causing the |
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> > problem for X. |
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> > |
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> > -Richard |
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> > |
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> > -- |
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Daniel da Veiga |
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