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From: Grant Edwards <grante@××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: 2.6.23-gentoo-r7 causes blinking X display
Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 01:35:14
Message-Id: g02u16$8pr$2@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 2.6.23-gentoo-r7 causes blinking X display by Ian Hilt
1 To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
2 From: Grant Edwards <grante@××××.com>
3 Subject: Re: 2.6.23-gentoo-r7 causes blinking X display
4 In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.10.0805092015230.23519@×××××××××××××.site>
5 References: <g01jt2$202$1@×××××××××.org> <alpine.LNX.1.10.0805091925130.23519@×××××××××××××.site> <g02mvk$pbq$1@×××××××××.org> <alpine.LNX.1.10.0805092015230.23519@×××××××××××××.site>
6
7 On 2008-05-10, Ian Hilt <ian.hilt@×××××.com> wrote:
8 > On Fri, 9 May 2008 at 11:33pm -0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
9 >
10 >> On 2008-05-09, Ian Hilt <ian.hilt@×××××.com> wrote:
11 >>> On Fri, 9 May 2008 at 1:34pm -0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
12 >>>
13 >>>> I'm running nvidia-drivers 169.09-r1 with a NVIDIA GPU Quadro
14 >>>> NVS 290 (G86GL), connected via DVI to dual Samsung 204B
15 >>>> displays running at 1600x1200.
16 >>>
17 >>> Did you rebuild the nvidia-drivers module?
18 >>
19 >> Yes. The exact same version of nvidia-drivers was being used
20 >> for both kernels.
21 >
22 > Um ... just to be clear, that means you did something like
23 > "emerge nvidia-drivers" *after* you built the kernel, right?
24
25 Right. And after I changed /usr/src/linux to point to the new
26 kernel source tree. Otherwise I'd get no X at all because
27 there's no nvidia kernel module.
28
29 I also did another emerge nvidia-drivers again with
30 /usr/src/linux pointed to the "old" kernel to make sure that
31 the kernel was the only difference.
32
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