Mark Knecht wrote: > Great info Nikos. Thanks. I'm a bit thrown by a new Gentoo-Linux > option in the kernel but it looks like a good move long term for the > distro. Just have to test that I didn't break anything basic. My > machine here is getting into an Nvidia pickle that so far I've been > unable to get out of. Problem is I'm not sure where to go but I > haven't really asked anyone as I wasn't even quite sure how to > approach the problem. I'm not necessarily looking for a technical > solution today. Really I'm just interested in how others would > approach the problem. Currently I'm running gentoo-sources-3.8.13 with > nvidia-drivers-313.30. For whatever reason my long running xorg.conf > file will no longer run with any nvidia driver newer than 313.30. X > just doesn't run. Based on your post I just built 3.10.7 and it > appears that 313.30 isn't supported with this newer kernel so pretty > soon I'm gonna have problems... Possible directions to go: 1) Fix > xorg.conf. Best solution but so far I haven't been able to do it even > with help from the Gentoo forums. Where to go? Don't know. Nvidia > forums maybe? Here? Dunno. 2) Drop nvidia-drivers and try nouveau. May > be a reasonable video direction - my screen-based video/graphics needs > are not high - however I have long terms needs of accessing the GPU as > a compute engine in R so I _think_ I have to stick with nvidia-drivers > to do that. Maybe not but I don't know at this time and I could deal > with that later. (I know Duncan's vote, if he's reading, goes here.) > :-) 3) Buy one or two new VGA cards. I currently run 3 screens, 2 on a > GTX465 and 1 on a 8400 GS. My trading partner uses 2 8400's without > issues (so far) so I could dump the GTX465, buy 1 8400 and I'd be OK > but would lose a lot of compute power. None the less it would likely > work. 4) Something else... All considered responses welcomed. Cheers, > Mark
I don't know if it is related or not but I to have issues with Nvidia drivers and the little KDE panel/kicker thingy at the bottom. After being logged in for a while, the panel thing would lock up tight. The clock wouldn't update, I couldn't use it to switch desktops, click the K menu or anything. The best version I found for a while was this: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-313.30 and kernel: 3.9.5-gentoo Right now I have that kernel version working with: nvidia-drivers-319.49 I have a Nvidia GeForce GT 220 video card. I think it has 1GB of ram or some amount likely larger than I need. At this point, I can't tell if it is Nvidia, KDE, or some other mismatch causing this. Right now, I'm just sticking with what I know works. May not be related but it may help you to compare notes maybe? Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
