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On 04/15/2014 04:18 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: |
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> On 04/14/2014 07:39 AM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: |
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>> I've had to replace my GPU today. Prior to attempting to start X with |
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>> the new GPU in, I thought I'd pull in the latest updates and reboot the |
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>> system. X wouldn't start as a result. I've googled for answers, but |
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>> haven't found a solution so far. |
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> Nvidia dropped support for the GeForce 210 in their 334 series. It's |
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> still there in the 331 series, though, if you want to downgrade. |
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> Same thing happened to me a while ago with my old 7800GT. I don't have |
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> any reason to buy a new GPU, so I switched to nouveau. |
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> Reference: http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html (pick a version, and |
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> hit "Supported Products"). |
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Thanks for your response. Apologies for the delay in replying. |
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After googling a bit more I did figure that the problem was with the |
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proprietary driver I was using. |
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I did try downgrading to some of these drivers, but to no avail, unless |
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I did something wrong in the process: |
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/usr/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers/nvidia-drivers-304.121.ebuild |
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/usr/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers/nvidia-drivers-331.49-r3.ebuild |
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/usr/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers/nvidia-drivers-331.49.ebuild |
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/usr/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers/nvidia-drivers-331.67.ebuild |
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What I ended up doing was using the |
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x11-drivers/xf86-video-nouveau-1.0.10 driver. |
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I set these up in my kernel .config: |
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CONFIG_DRM_NOUVEAU=y |
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CONFIG_NOUVEAU_DEBUG=5 |
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CONFIG_NOUVEAU_DEBUG_DEFAULT=3 |
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CONFIG_DRM_NOUVEAU_BACKLIGHT=y |
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Enabled nouveau and disabled nvidia in make.conf: |
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egrep 'nvidia|nouveau' /etc/portage/make.conf |
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USE="$USE -nvidia consolekit pam policykit udisks upower acpi lm_sensors" |
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VIDEO_CARDS="nouveau" |
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And ran: |
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emerge --ask --changed-use --deep @world |
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The new driver's been running OK so far. |
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Playing videos via vlc/mplayer seems to run smooth. |
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Some youtube videos are a bit choppy, and/or delayed though. Not sure if |
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it's the nouveau driver to blame or the fact that I've got 1 Gb of RAM |
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onboard. |
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Should I have enabled the nouveau USE flag globally in make.conf like I |
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previously did for nvidia, or is that not necessary? |
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If there is something else I should be doing, or something I overlooked, |
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I'd appreciate anyone letting me know. |
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Thanks. |
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