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From: Mark <imnotmark@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia hangs Xorg
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 03:37:29
Message-Id: 1141270319.14678.0.camel@localhost
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Nvidia hangs Xorg by Jonatan Antoni
1 i had the same problem, even when i would switch back to VT1 it would be
2 a black screen, so i uesed the drivers from nvidia.com and it worked
3 fine, seems to be a problem in portage
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6 On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 14:48 +0100, Jonatan Antoni wrote:
7 > Hy there,
8 >
9 > I'm playing around with the nvidia kernel-modules and glx-drivers for x11 for a while.
10 > First all works fine, but using mozilla-firefox crashes the x-server after a while. Let
11 > me give you an example: Running firefox works, going to google as well, but going to
12 > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Dual_Monitors and click the link "4.1 Moving focus between screens"
13 > hangs the display. I can still move around the mouse-cursor, but everything else is locked.
14 >
15 > Logging in to my system remotely by ssh, I can find the X-proccess taking nearly 100 percent
16 > of cpu-time. By restarting xdm the X-system comes back correctly.
17 >
18 > Now I'm back using the default nv-driver of the xorg-project, because that's the only way of sending
19 > this email without x11 hangs. In the future I want to use the dual-head function of my geforce fx5200
20 > for a video-beamer. Is there another way without using the original nvidia drivers or has somebody
21 > a hint about that nasty error?
22 >
23 > thx,
24 > jonatan
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