[gentoo-user] Nvidia-drivers,

[Alan Grimes]

Gentlemen, we have a problem...

Okay, ~ a week ago there was a power outage at my place, everything goes
down for a day or two. I had recently refreshed my UPS batteries, so I
had a chance to put that into the circuit, no biggy.

Since nobody will offer me a job, I was playing Kerbal space program yet
again. (not even Don Corleone could get me a job at this point, I
frequently joke about the horse head trick but, seriously, I don't think
even that would work...)

So, after all of two and a half days of uptime, nvidia drivers takes
x'-doze down.

I was like "Ok, fine, I'll do a maintenance cycle on my machine and all
will be good..."

So I update the bios, update the kernel, update portage, flush a few
dead packages down the memory hole... Ok, my system was in shape again...

So, I'm back in kerbal, another day or two goes by, I'm sitting there
trying to figure out whether I have enough room in my departure corridor
to slot in a contract mission to Jool.. I wasn't even sitting down, just
poking around in my kitchen. When I got back, the game was frozen. I had
to log in with my PoS laptop which is useful only for this task. I found
that KSP, and X'doze were live-locked, presumably on a Nvidia-drivers
bug. =( I tried killing off KSP but it ended up going zombie... I tried
killing off parent processes, no luck, I then tried shutting down the
machine the normal way, no good. I eventually ended up going to the
dusty 28 year old power commander thing and throwing the big orange
switch labelled COMPUTER (complete and instantaneous removal of power).

What's going on here? Nvidia drivers have been stable for years...
what's the deal? =\


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