On Sunday 05 August 2007, a tiny voice compelled Volker Armin Hemmann to write: > On Sonntag, 5. August 2007, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > On Sunday 05 August 2007, a tiny voice compelled Volker Armin Hemmann to > > > > write: > > > On Sonntag, 5. August 2007, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > > > A few days ago I ran my updates and nvidia-settings was updated to > > > > 1.0.20070302 All was good until last night. I openen konqueror to > > > > browse my home dir and I got a mime-type error and no files > > > > displayed. Trying to do konqueror /home/ernie gave me errors that I > > > > can't quote but mime types was mentioned again. Assuming that > > > > something was just hung up I did top which showed X using 95% cpu > > > > Killing java_vm, firefox, kmail and any suspected cpu hogs had no > > > > effect so I killed X and attempted to restart it. > > > > > > 'suspected'? ps aux, and/or (h)top should show you the hog. > > > > only "X" showed high cpu usage. No associated apps were above what I'm > > used to seeing. > > > > > > nvidia-drivers is currently at 100.14.09. I need advice getting this > > > > straight. Is there a file where nvidia-settings keeps config > > > > > > ~/.nvidia-settings-rc > > > > showed the file was generated back in 2004 and hasn't been modified since > > 7/2/04 > > so what? maybe the latest nvidia-settings does not like the old file? You > can just move it someone and try... > > > > > data other > > > > than xorg.conf? should I update to the masked > > > > nvidia-drivers-100.14.11 ? > > > > > > yes. > > > > NO! The newer drivers build but warn of MTRR support lacking on my card. > > and you have checked that you have mtrr support in the kernel?
first thing > > > Funny I thought that it was there. It's a gforce4 ti 4200. > > I had to revert to nvidia-drivers-1.0.9639. I guess the drivers got > > updated in a previous update and I missed the warnings. Funny it worked > > for over a week. > > emm, you might want to look up about 'legacy drivers' and 'supported > cards'. There you go. For my card I have to stick with the 1.0.96xx series drivers. might be time to look at building a new box. -- Regards, Ernie -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
