[gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and KDE problem

[Dale]

Howdy,

I been letting portage upgrade nvidia drivers as usual.  Thing is, the
last two or three drivers seems to cause a issue.  First, versions that
cause the issue:

=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-319.12
=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-319.17
=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-319.23

I'm currently using this one which works fine:

x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-313.30

This is KDE info:

[IP-] [  ] kde-base/kdelibs-4.10.3-r2

Video card info:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT216 [GeForce GT
220] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
        Subsystem: NVIDIA Corporation Device 069a
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
        Memory at fb000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        Memory at de000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
        I/O ports at ef00 [size=128]
        [virtual] Expansion ROM at d0000000 [disabled] [size=512K]
        Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 3
        Capabilities: [68] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
        Capabilities: [78] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
        Capabilities: [b4] Vendor Specific Information: Len=14 <?>
        Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
        Capabilities: [128] Power Budgeting <?>
        Capabilities: [600] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1
Len=024 <?>
        Kernel driver in use: nvidia
        Kernel modules: nvidia


The problem.  After I am logged into KDE for a good while, like several
hours to maybe a day or so, the kicker thingy at the bottom locks up
tight.  I can't switch desktops, clock stops working, can't click the K
menu thingy either.  Everything in the kicker thingy is dead as a door
nail.  I can switch desktops with the keyboard and everything else works
in KDE just fine.  I can also switch to a console too.  Killing X and
restarting it fixes it, xdm restart in my case.  I don't have to reload
drivers or restart the system.  I do go back and downgrade the drivers
after testing it.

So, is this a nvidia bug, KDE bug or is it something else?  Since it
works when I go back a version of nvidia, it looks like nvidia.  Think
is, it only affects KDE and nothing else.  Is it possible that my card
is not supposed to use the 319.* series of drivers?  The versions that
don't work are all 319.* series. 

Thoughts? 

Dale

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