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Helmut Jarausch wrote: |
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> On 12/15/10 10:03:58, Dale wrote: |
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>> Helmut Jarausch wrote: |
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>>> On 12/15/10 09:40:48, Dale wrote: |
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>>>> Hi again, |
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>>>> For those mot up to date. I built a new rig that has a Nvidia |
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>> GT220 |
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>>>> card in it. I bought a brand new monitor this morning, a LG |
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>> W2253, |
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>>>> and |
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>>>> it worked one time. I had to reboot to move some things around |
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>> and |
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>>>> when |
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>>>> I rebooted, the GUI doesn't come up. The BIOS screen shows up and |
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>> I |
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>>>> can |
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>>>> see the services start up as well but when it switches to vt7, it |
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>>>> just |
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>>>> has a little blinking cursor at the top. |
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>>> Have you changed the kernel? The nvidia-drivers (as well as the |
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>> ati- |
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>>> drivers) have to be re-emerged after (nearly) any change to the |
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>> kernel. |
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>>> Just re-emerge it, unload and reload the corresponding kernel |
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>> module |
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>>> and try again to startx. |
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>>> Helmut. |
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>> Just to make sure I understand you correctly. You mean: |
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>> cd /usr/src/linux |
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>> make all&& make modules_install |
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>> then cp the kernel to /boot ? |
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>> That I didn't try. I knew if I updated the kernel I had to re-emerge |
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>> the nvidia-drivers but I didn't know it was the other way around too. |
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> No, |
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> just emerge -1 x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers |
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> (while the /usr/src/linux symlink is OK as others have mentioned |
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> already) |
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> Helmut. |
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> (By the way, my x11-base/xorg-server-1.9.2.902 doesn't use hal anymore) |
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I upgraded to xorg 1.9 to while trying to fix all this mess. It wasn't |
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working before so I don't guess that hurts. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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