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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: X segfault with nvidia-drivers-295.40 on GT520
Date: Thu, 03 May 2012 06:53:22
Message-Id: jnt9t1$1e4$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] X segfault with nvidia-drivers-295.40 on GT520 by Raffaele BELARDI
1 On 03/05/12 09:39, Raffaele BELARDI wrote:
2 > One month ago I switched to an Nvidia-based (ASUS GT520, PCI-e) video
3 > card on an ~amd64 box. I immediately had problems with the latest Nvidia
4 > driver causing a segfault when X started (text console is ok) so I
5 > switched to 295.20-r1 and everything was fine.
6 >
7 > But I forgot to mask 295.40 and during yesterday's update it got pulled
8 > in again, with the same segfault behaviour when starting X.
9 >
10 > I tried to manually downgrade nvidia-drivers but now glibc is upgraded
11 > to 2.15-r1 and nvidia-drivers-295.20-r1 depends on an older glibc
12 > (2.14.1-r3, I think). Emerge refuses to downgrade glibc so I am stuck.
13 >
14 > Since it is a mythtv box I want to stay away from nouveau. No problem
15 > myself with it but most of the mythtv development is around proprietary
16 > nvidia drivers.
17 >
18 > What other options do I have?
19 > Is everybody running nvidia-drivers-295.40 without problems?
20
21 No problems here, but you can try 302.07 (I run those since yesterday.)
22 The usual way: copy the ebuild in your local overlay and rename it to
23 nvidia-drivers-302.07.ebuild, then do a digest. Same for
24 nvidia-settings, but edit it and remove the patches.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X segfault with nvidia-drivers-295.40 on GT520 Raffaele BELARDI <raffaele.belardi@××.com>