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

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