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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Nouveau driver turns off video when I start X
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 01:51:32
Message-Id: CAK2H+ee5pZfUCMC_gnvY8U0O+DxXnA7yVbPpnHOFzLaC2RoUEg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Nouveau driver turns off video when I start X by Walter Dnes
1 On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote:
2 > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 05:21:28PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote
3 >> Proprietary drivers work fine with 3.2.1. Haven't tried 3.2.12.
4 >
5 >  The proprietary driver partly works.  Static images (jpeg/gif/png/etc)
6 > are OK.  1080p HD Flash videos play fullscreen without stuttering.  But
7 > colours are way off on hue.  Faces are blue (no, this wasn't the "Avatar"
8 > trailer <G>).  Mplayer totally locks up the machine as soon as I start
9 > it.  I have to resort to Magic-Sysrq to bail out without forcing a major
10 > fsck.  Here are the card details from "lspci -v"...
11
12 Presumably this all works perfectly with the closed source driver?
13 I've never seen problems like these on my machine which almost all run
14 NVidia chips. I haven't tried this Open Source in years myself.
15
16 - Mark

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Re: [gentoo-user] Nouveau driver turns off video when I start X Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>