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From: "Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with hi-res display and nouveau driver on *one* system
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 00:39:25
Message-Id: CADPrc80rqC-hTn5xVw1g=tvNYfdeUhmPFoJbC6YbjbowYvXf=A@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with hi-res display and nouveau driver on *one* system by gottlieb@nyu.edu
1 On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 7:12 PM, <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote:
2 > On Sun, May 11 2014, Walter Dnes wrote
3 [snip]:
4 >> Plan B) if Plan A fails, manually remove
5 >> /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/nv_drv.so
6
7 That's a really bad idea. If the driver is there, and Allan didn't
8 rememeber being the one that put it, something else did, and it will
9 probably do it again.
10
11 > This helped considerably. No grey bands; instead gdm puts up its
12 > screensaver and tells us the (correct) time. Moving the mouse moves the
13 > pointer and clicking on the upper right button shows the volume etc.
14
15 Allan, what do you have in your VIDEO_CARDS variable? It's usually
16 defined in /etc/portage/make.conf. If you don't have it, try to set it
17 up to nouveau:
18
19 VIDEO_CARDS="nouveau"
20
21 Also, what's the output of "equery l -if x11-drivers/"?
22
23 Regards.
24 --
25 Canek Peláez Valdés
26 Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias
27 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

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