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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia and i/o problem
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 15:16:26
Message-Id: 4CEE7DA1.20906@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] nvidia and i/o problem by Zhu Sha Zang
1 Zhu Sha Zang wrote:
2 > <<SNIP>>
3 >
4 > My problems:
5 >
6 > 1) Gentlemen, with this hardware when i try to compile some "nice"
7 > software like chromium, pyside or openoffice my system "freeze". I
8 > can't do anything like use keyboard, mouse or switch betwenn windows.
9 > How can i find the motive to this strange (???) problem? I've used
10 > --load-average in MAKEOPTS with the same result.
11 >
12 > 2) The source x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-256.53 don't compile against
13 > kernel-2.6.36-r3 and upgrading to nvidia-drivers-260.19.21 my X don't
14 > start using the same LG FLATRON W2043S. Appears to be a resolution
15 > problem, cos the light that monitor blink and the screen keep black. A
16 > bug?
17 >
18 > Att
19
20 For #1. Mine does this at times when compiling OOo too. I think it
21 hits spots in the compile process that are really using the CPU and it
22 just crams it through. I had it do it on my current machine and on
23 another machine I installed OOo on. I don't think this is to out of the
24 norm. I guess if you have fast enough processor that you won't be able
25 to tell it tho.
26
27 I haven't' noticed this in the other packages tho. I don't use chromium
28 and don't think I use pyside either.
29
30 For #2. I have a older card and sometimes I have to unmask a newer
31 nvidia driver to get it to work. Sometimes, I have to use a somewhat
32 older kernel until nvidia gets the driver updated to work with the new
33 kernel, usually not to long tho. You use a newer driver but still may
34 have to check and make sure the driver works with that kernel. Gentoo
35 is bleeding edge sometimes. ;-)
36
37 Dale
38
39 :-) :-)