Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

[Mark Knecht]

DAle,
   PLEASE look at bullet item #3 in this NVidia release:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-amd64-275.09.07-driver.html

<QUOTE>

Fixed a bug that caused freezes and crashes when resizing windows in
KDE 4 with desktop effects enabled using X.Org X server version 1.10
or later.
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Sure sounds familiar to me...

- Mark

On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
>> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 14:42:50 -0500, Dale wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yea, done tried that.  I tried different kernels, different nvidia
>>>> drivers and all with no change.
>>>>
>>>
>>> WAG - have you tried the nv drivers?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I did but I couldn't get X to even start.  I guess something is not set
>> right somewhere.  I have nv in make.conf and been there since I built this
>> thing so sort of clueless on why it don't work.
>>
>> Maybe it's because I don't use the latest greatest cards but I don't think I
>> have ever really had trouble with nvidia drivers.  Surely it can't be good
>> luck.  ;-)
>>
>> While I am at it, what is the syntax to mask a package higher than a certain
>> version in package.mask?  I tired =>package.name.version and tried >=
>> package.name.version but the former doesn't work and seems to ignore it and
>> the later makes emerge print a boo boo message.  On my old rig, I want to
>> mask anything above the 173 series.   So far, I haven't had the light bulb
>> moment and never can remember how to do this.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Dale
>
> May I ask exactly what NVidia card you are using and why you are using
> (if I understood you correctly) the nv driver and not the nvidia
> driver?
>
> This page at NVidia will point you at the right driver. I've got a
> little bit of every NVidia technology here and they haven't treated me
> wrong yet.
>
> http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
>
> My make.conf files all say
>
> VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"
>
> and then I typically use the beta driver ala:
>
> mark@slinky ~ $ cat /etc/portage/package.keywords | grep nvidia
> x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers ~amd64
> dev-util/nvidia-cuda-toolkit ~amd64
> dev-util/nvidia-cuda-sdk ~amd64
> mark@slinky ~ $
>
> You won't need the CUDAstuff.
>
> It's always the NVidia driver in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, not the older nv driver:
>
> mark@slinky ~ $ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep nvidia
>        Driver      "nvidia"
> mark@slinky ~ $
>
> - Mark
>