Re: [gentoo-user] I am tired of this one.

[Willie]

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Willie Matthews
<matthews.willie@×××××.com>wrote:

>  On 08/02/12 14:39, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Willie Matthews<matthews.willie@×××××.com> <matthews.willie@×××××.com> wrote:
> <SNIP>
>
>  Hey Mark,
>
> What technical information would you like me to post? I am not to good
> with troubleshooting.
>
> Driver Version is x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-302.17:0
>
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> Willie Matthewsmatthews.willie@×××××.com
>
>  If you're gonna be a Gentoo user you will develop more of those traits
> over time.
>
> That's the newest driver. As per Paul's suggestion you might try an older one.
>
> Other than that post the contents of /etc/X11/xorg.conf as well as
> your current xorg log file, most like /var/log/Xorg.0.log, but it
> might have a different name.
>
> As the 6150 seems to be an on-board GPU only used in specific nvidia
> laptop chipsets I have no idea about it's specs. As you say it's not
> CUDA-based I'm suspicious about mixing CUDA & non-CUDA and getting
> good results. You might query the nouveau driver guys to see if they
> support it. The 8400 is probably well supported there and likely
> someone will know if they support old & new NVidia chips running
> together.
>
> Also, if you can get it to crash and are still able to ssh in then I'd
> look closely at the X11 log file and see if it says anything, as well
> as dmesg, etc. Maybe you're up against a kernel bug or something. (You
> didn't tell us much about your setup...) ;-)
>
> HTH,
> Mark
>
>  Hey Mark,
>
> I have tried numerous drivers, from I think 275 up, skipping a couple of
> revisions. I end up with the same result when it comes to the 8400GS. I
> have also tried the nouveau driver with the same result. I have to disable
> the acceleration for it to work.
>
> When I change the bios setting to use the PCIe it doesn't show the 6150 at
> all in lspci (I Think). I am using the same xorg.conf file that I use for
> my 8400, nothing about it has changed except for the addition of the
> suggestions of Paul. Even that change still have the 6150 still working.
>
> Here are the two files that you asked for.
>
> /var/log/Xorg.0.log http://pastebin.com/dPy7HPRZ
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf http://pastebin.com/JQMr6HTS
>
> In the beginning this was my desktop with Gentoo on it. 8400 worked just
> fine. I started using it as a headless server for awhile and playing around
> with CUDA, now I am back to using it as a desktop but more for XBMC
> connected to a TV. I still use it to share the net, DNS, DHCP you know all
> that good stuff.
>
> Kernel Version 3.3.8-gentoo-r1
> Tried to build 3.4 series but it just crashes out this computer, haven't
> tried the 3.5 series yet.
>
> I also just looked through my /var/log/messages file. It is nothing in
> there about the crash. It just jump time 2 minutes. That is the same thing
> that would be in dmesg right?
>
> I will switch back to the 8400 to take a look at dmesg for the crash if I
> can ssh in still.
>
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>
> Willie Matthewsmatthews.willie@×××××.com
>
>
>
>
Can't get dmesg log. Can't ssh into it anymore! :(

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Willie Matthews
matthews.willie@×××××.com