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Hello, list. |
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I'm running Gentoo on my box, and got (almost) everything on ~x86, |
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with the exception of gcc, glibc and binutils, as these have rendered |
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my box completely b0rked in the past. |
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(un?)fortunately, this machine has an nvidia graphics display, and we |
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all know nvidia linux drivers are very far from perfect. I myself have |
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seen all kind of strange behaviour and lockups with them on various |
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machines. |
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Now, I'm helping test Minefield (a.k.a. Firefox 3). And here comes the problems: |
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- If I try Minefield with nvidia drivers, I experience X lockup (100% |
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cpu and completely unresponsive) as soon as I try to either open a |
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message on Gmail or try to compose a new mail. I was going to post |
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this message when it locked. |
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- Firefox 2 with nvidia drivers seem to be OK (I'm posting this right |
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now on it). |
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- X with opensource nv drivers eat 80% cpu time even when doing |
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nothing. My box becomes very sluggish, and it looks like my old 486 |
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dx2 :) |
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I find it very strange that Minefield can bring X down by simply |
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opening a message or trying to compose new mail. I have managed to |
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reproduce this error here several times. When this happens, I have to |
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ssh in, kill -9 X, and then wait a bit for gdm to restart it. |
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This is very very annoying. |
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If I could, I would leave nvidia forever, but I guess there are no |
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better (or less worse) alternative, so I must stick to these crappy |
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drivers. |
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Also, this seems to have started after I had to replace nvidia-drivers |
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with nvidia-legacy-drivers. |
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Any ideas? |
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Thanks! |
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Bruno Lustosa <bruno@×××××××.net> |
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http://www.lustosa.net/ |
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