Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia-drivers stopped working

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Sonntag, 5. August 2007, Ernie Schroder wrote:
> On Sunday 05 August 2007, a tiny voice compelled Volker Armin Hemmann to
>
> write:
> > On Sonntag, 5. August 2007, Ernie Schroder wrote:
> > > A few days ago I ran my updates and nvidia-settings was updated to
> > > 1.0.20070302 All was good until last night. I openen konqueror to
> > > browse my home dir and I got a mime-type error and no files displayed.
> > > Trying to do konqueror /home/ernie gave me errors that I can't quote
> > > but mime types was mentioned again. Assuming that something was just
> > > hung up I did top which showed X using 95% cpu Killing java_vm,
> > > firefox, kmail and any suspected cpu hogs had no effect so I killed X
> > > and attempted to restart it.
> >
> > 'suspected'? ps aux, and/or (h)top should show you the hog.
>
> only "X" showed high cpu usage. No associated apps were above what I'm used
> to seeing.
>
> > > nvidia-drivers is currently at 100.14.09. I need advice getting this
> > > straight. Is there a file where nvidia-settings keeps config
> >
> > ~/.nvidia-settings-rc
>
> showed the file was generated back in 2004 and hasn't been modified since
> 7/2/04

so what? maybe the latest nvidia-settings does not like the old file? You can 
just move it someone and try...

>
> > > data other
> > > than xorg.conf? should I update to the masked nvidia-drivers-100.14.11
> > > ?
> >
> > yes.
>
> NO! The newer drivers build but warn of MTRR support lacking on my card.

and you have checked that you have mtrr support in the kernel?

> Funny I thought that it was there. It's a gforce4 ti 4200.
> I had to revert to nvidia-drivers-1.0.9639. I guess the drivers got updated
> in a previous update and I missed the warnings. Funny it worked for over a
> week.

emm, you might want to look up about 'legacy drivers' and 'supported cards'.
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