Hi All, I've reported two problems recently to the list: 1) Problems with X11 configuration on my 3 monitor, 2 card setup 2) A >2 minute login problem
This morning, based on Nikos' comments yesterday about gentoo-sources-3.10 being a long term support kernel, I brought up 3.10.7. As with earlier recent attempts I didn't get X at all. As an experiment I tried removing everything from my xorg.conf having to do with the second card & monitor and tried the newest nvidia-driver package listed on their site as "Long Lived Branch" which is 319.49. Amazingly, _both_ problems were solved. X came up nicely (on 2 monitors only) and login is immediate. I think for my needs I'll remove the unused card, live with 2 monitors for now and consider how to proceed while maintaining a long term supported nature to the kernel and video drivers. I run 'mostly stable' so as long as long term kernels get security updates and I don't add new hardware to this 3 year old machine I think I'll be happy. Cheers, Mark On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Barry Schwartz > <chemoelect...@chemoelectric.org> wrote: >> Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> skribis: >>> 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.) :-) >> >> I’ve had real trouble with nouveau graphics, not considering cuda >> computing issues, and so have resigned myself to nvidia’s fetters for >> the while. I’d switch graphics cards to be freer but, like fictional >> Jerry Seinfeld’s nana, I’m ‘on a very fixed income’. :) > > > She's a great lady. Gotta luv her, and you're advice also. :-) > > One thing I hate about my current setup is that with two different > nvidia cards OpenGL only works on the 2 screens attached to the > GTX465. No video apps work on the 3rd display, and the KDE OpenGL > features like (from memory - it's been so loon) Alt-F8, or whatever it > was that allows me to see all 6 desktops at once, don't work at all. > My friends machine which has 2 8400's work perfectly in that respect. > > Finding a new card isn't out of the question. I'd prefer to find a > single card that drove 4 monitors, like maybe one or two of the > Quadro's do, but it's money and risk as I don't know of any Gentoo > User types using those cards. > > I suspect I can disassociate the CUDA stuff if I have to. I don't have > to tell X11 that the 465 is in the machine, and I have 3 PCI Express > slots so I could potentially have 2 VGAs and 1 CUDA. (I think...) > > Thanks for the inputs. > > Cheers, > Mark
