Am 26.05.2013 11:12, schrieb Dale: > Howdy, > > I been letting portage upgrade nvidia drivers as usual. Thing is, the > last two or three drivers seems to cause a issue. First, versions that > cause the issue: > > =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-319.12 > =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-319.17 > =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-319.23 > > I'm currently using this one which works fine: > > x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-313.30 > > This is KDE info: > > [IP-] [ ] kde-base/kdelibs-4.10.3-r2 > > Video card info: > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT216 [GeForce GT > 220] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) > Subsystem: NVIDIA Corporation Device 069a > Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18 > Memory at fb000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] > Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] > Memory at de000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M] > I/O ports at ef00 [size=128] > [virtual] Expansion ROM at d0000000 [disabled] [size=512K] > Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 3 > Capabilities: [68] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ > Capabilities: [78] Express Endpoint, MSI 00 > Capabilities: [b4] Vendor Specific Information: Len=14 <?> > Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel > Capabilities: [128] Power Budgeting <?> > Capabilities: [600] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 > Len=024 <?> > Kernel driver in use: nvidia > Kernel modules: nvidia > > > The problem. After I am logged into KDE for a good while, like several > hours to maybe a day or so, the kicker thingy at the bottom locks up > tight. I can't switch desktops, clock stops working, can't click the K > menu thingy either. Everything in the kicker thingy is dead as a door > nail. I can switch desktops with the keyboard and everything else works > in KDE just fine. I can also switch to a console too. Killing X and > restarting it fixes it, xdm restart in my case. I don't have to reload > drivers or restart the system. I do go back and downgrade the drivers > after testing it. > > So, is this a nvidia bug, KDE bug or is it something else? Since it > works when I go back a version of nvidia, it looks like nvidia. Think > is, it only affects KDE and nothing else. Is it possible that my card > is not supposed to use the 319.* series of drivers? The versions that > don't work are all 319.* series. > > Thoughts? > > Dale > > :-) :-) >
next time as root do: killall -9 krunner killall -9 plasma-desktop