Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong?
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:38:01
Message-Id: 200910092036.41870.volkerarmin@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong? by Denis
1 On Freitag 09 Oktober 2009, Denis wrote:
2 > I see.
3 >
4 > Well, I am running nvidia-drivers-180.60, and versions 185 and 190 are
5 > masked by ~x86. Same for the xorg-server-1.6.4. So the only thing I
6 > could do really is to update the kernel...
7 >
8 > But xorg-server-1.5 was perfectly stable for me, so I don't see how
9 > kernel upgrade would be helpful here, given that nvidia-drivers aren't
10 > in the kernel.
11 >
12
13 nvidia drivers load into the kernel. Driver-kernel interaction can cause a lot
14 of problems.

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