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Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> "Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto" <please.no.spam.here@×××××.com> writes: |
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>> I am not only concerned about the problem reported in this thread; I |
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>> also want to give opinion on his larger "update a very outdated |
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>> system" task. |
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> Just for the record... I seem to have gotten things under control and |
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> did set VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia". |
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> I ran into a problem somewhere in the compile of the x11 drivers that |
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> brought up where some file (I didn't keep the name) was not available |
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> in the most recent kernel sources. |
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> Rather than keep pounding away, I backed off to |
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> uname -r |
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> 2.6.25-gentoo-r9 |
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> I didn't test any of the releases in between, since I was pretty sure |
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> something in the ...25 series would work since my last kernel (prior |
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> to updating to ...27* was ..25-r6. |
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> Those sources appear to supply everthing needed. I also discovered |
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> that none of the kernel based NVIDIA modules were necessary. |
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> And finally as advised here in another thread recently I ran |
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> --depclean after successful update @system @world and many of those |
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> x11-drivers were dumped. |
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> Now I get a clean slate there: |
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> $ eix -Ic |grep x11-driver |
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> [I] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers [...] |
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> [I] x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev [...] |
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> [I] x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard [...] |
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> [I] x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse [...] |
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> And X works fine. |
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> I don't tax a video card much in my usage of linux. It's my main |
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> desktop but my semi-professional video-editing is all done on windowsXP |
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> machines for access to the first rate adobe tools. |
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> Opening the occasional graphics file in mail is about it on my gentoo |
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> desktop. |
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> Many thanks to all for the generous help. |
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> I guess I'll have to take the final step and setup some cron based |
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> update method that happens a lot more frequently... |
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I'm not sure how new to Linux you are but just a couple observations |
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about kernels and such. Sometimes I try newer kernels and something |
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doesn't work right. It may not be video related but just always keep |
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your old kernel and their source code around until you have well tested |
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the new one. Also, always feel free to test a new kernel when you have |
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trouble especially if the kernel can affect what you are installing. |
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Something concerning hardware for the most part. Just for future |
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information. May come in handy someday. |
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Otherwise, glad you got it going. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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