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On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 10:03 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>> DAle, |
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>> PLEASE look at bullet item #3 in this NVidia release: |
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>> http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-amd64-275.09.07-driver.html |
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>> <QUOTE> |
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>> Fixed a bug that caused freezes and crashes when resizing windows in |
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>> KDE 4 with desktop effects enabled using X.Org X server version 1.10 |
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>> or later. |
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>> <QUOTE> |
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>> |
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>> Sure sounds familiar to me... |
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>> - Mark |
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> Yea, that does sound familiar. Trying to recall who could have had that |
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> problem. Hmmmm. Oh, it was me !! lol This is my card info: |
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> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT200 [GeForce GT 220] |
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> (rev a2) |
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> Drivers: |
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> x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-270.41.19 |
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> That is the latest for my card that is in the tree. |
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No! It is not the latest. It's just what portage is offering you. The |
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link I sent you clearly (!?) stated that you need to be running the |
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latest 'Certified' driver revision 275.09.07 to get this fix. Just |
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because the Gentoo devs haven't marked it as stable does (to me) mean |
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that I should take their word for it. The company that makes the GPU |
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AND designed the driver says to upgrade, so in this case I do what |
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NVidia tells me. |
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mark@c2stable ~ $ eix nvidia-drivers |
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[I] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers |
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Available versions: 96.43.19!s 173.14.28!s 173.14.30!s |
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(~)256.53!s 260.19.44!s 270.41.06!s (~)270.41.19!s (~)275.09.07!s |
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{acpi custom-cflags gtk kernel_linux multilib} |
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Installed versions: 275.09.07!s(10:21:39 AM 06/24/2011)(acpi gtk |
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kernel_linux multilib -custom-cflags) |
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Homepage: http://www.nvidia.com/ |
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Description: NVIDIA X11 driver and GLX libraries |
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mark@c2stable ~ $ |
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Do the right thing for your machine. Keep it up to date as per |
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portage, not downgrading to old Xorg stuff, and use the driver NVidia |
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tells you to use. |
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Happy, happy. |
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> Now keep in mind, going |
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> back to the older xorg fixed the Konsole and resizing issue I had. So far, |
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> I'm not sure Firefox has its problem fixed. I'm going to try it here in a |
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> few. Just close everything I can, type in sync and open the thing and see |
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> if the smoke gets out. Oh, got to install it again too. Almost forgot |
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> that. |
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> It's funny in a way. I haven't been to the nvidia website in ages. I just |
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> sort of guess at a version, try it and see if it works. If not, try another |
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> one until I find one that does. There isn't that many in the tree. I never |
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> use the latest because I have never had that new of a card. :/ |
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New drivers AREN'T only for new cards. They are also for old cards |
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that develop new problems. I.e. - a resizing problem in KDE4 with a |
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new Xorg package. |
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In this one case of NVidia hardware, if I'm going to use the closed |
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source driver then it seems to me the controlling authority of what to |
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use is NVidia and a Gentoo dev who doesn't have this problem. I |
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suspect if a Gentoo dev had the problem you're having this driver |
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would have been marked stable weeks ago! |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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