Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia update problems

2011-01-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 17:54 on Wednesday 05 January 2011, Peter Humphrey did opine thusly: > On Wednesday 05 January 2011 15:32:29 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Now we need to figure out *why* it was causing your problems > > I could just hand it over to the devs via a bug report, but I oug

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia update problems

2011-01-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 05 January 2011 15:32:29 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Now we need to figure out *why* it was causing your problems I could just hand it over to the devs via a bug report, but I ought to do some detective work first, if only to decide which subsystem to log it against. The trouble with t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia update problems

2011-01-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 16:44 on Wednesday 05 January 2011, Peter Humphrey did opine thusly: > On Wednesday 05 January 2011 12:43:43 Peter Humphrey wrote: > > These are the only values set in [/etc/rc.conf]; everything else is > > comment: > > rc_interactive="YES" > > rc_shell=/sbin/sulog

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia update problems

2011-01-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 05 January 2011 12:43:43 Peter Humphrey wrote: > These are the only values set in [/etc/rc.conf]; everything else is > comment: > rc_interactive="YES" > rc_shell=/sbin/sulogin > rc_hotplug="!*" > rc_logger="YES" > rc_start_wait=100 > unicode="YES" > rc_tty_number=12 [...] > Hmm. I'm w

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia update problems

2011-01-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 04 January 2011 21:51:37 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Do you have > > rc_parallel="YES" > > in /etc/rc.conf? Nope. These are the only values set in that file; everything else is comment: rc_interactive="YES" rc_shell=/sbin/sulogin rc_hotplug="!*" rc_logger="YES" rc_start_wait=100 unicode=

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia update problems

2011-01-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 12:50 on Tuesday 04 January 2011, Peter Humphrey did opine thusly: > On Monday 03 January 2011 14:40:41 walt wrote: > > I'm wondering if you have some mixture of baselayout versions on that > > machine from previous updates. > > Unlikely: this box has been ~amd64

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia update problems

2011-01-04 Thread walt
On 01/04/2011 02:50 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 03 January 2011 14:40:41 walt wrote: I'm wondering if you have some mixture of baselayout versions on that machine from previous updates. Unlikely: this box has been ~amd64 since before it had a complete system. Could your machine be t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia update problems

2011-01-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 03 January 2011 14:40:41 walt wrote: > I'm wondering if you have some mixture of baselayout versions on that > machine from previous updates. Unlikely: this box has been ~amd64 since before it had a complete system. > Could your machine be trying to start something other than kdm by >

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia update problems

2011-01-03 Thread walt
On 01/03/2011 02:11 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 02 January 2011 15:51:24 walt wrote: On 01/02/2011 03:51 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: It looks as though the boot sequence is going wrong somehow, because when I get my initial blank screen, if I then switch to a VT and restart xdm, everythin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia update problems

2011-01-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 02 January 2011 15:51:24 walt wrote: > On 01/02/2011 03:51 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > It looks as though the boot sequence is going wrong somehow, > > because when I get my initial blank screen, if I then switch to a > > VT and restart xdm, everything works as expected. > > Just for c

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia update problems

2011-01-02 Thread walt
On 01/02/2011 03:51 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday 31 December 2010 12:52:08 Peter Humphrey wrote: When I start the system, instead of the kdm login screen I get a blinking cursor in the top-[left] of a blank screen. An emerge of nvidia-drivers enables me to restart kdm and get a proper sc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia update problems

2011-01-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 01 January 2011 20:26:11 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 12:36 on Saturday 01 January 2011, > Peter Humphrey did opine thusly: > > Something is messing about with the nVidia module. > > That's how module-rebuild works, it's not broken. It *will* rebuild > everyth

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia update problems

2011-01-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 12:36 on Saturday 01 January 2011, Peter Humphrey did opine thusly: > On Friday 31 December 2010 21:00:57 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Apparently, though unproven, at 20:54 on Friday 31 December 2010, > > > > walt did opine thusly: > > > So, if you've ever run the NVI

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia update problems

2011-01-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 31 December 2010 21:00:57 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 20:54 on Friday 31 December 2010, > walt did opine thusly: > > So, if you've ever run the NVIDIA install program manually, you > > probably have two different nvidia.ko files in /lib/modules, and > > the wron

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia update problems

2010-12-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 20:54 on Friday 31 December 2010, walt did opine thusly: > On 12/31/2010 04:52 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > This is weird. When I start the system, instead of the kdm login screen > > I get a blinking cursor in the top-right of a blank screen. An emerge of > > nvi

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia update problems

2010-12-31 Thread walt
On 12/31/2010 04:52 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: This is weird. When I start the system, instead of the kdm login screen I get a blinking cursor in the top-right of a blank screen. An emerge of nvidia-drivers enables me to restart kdm and get a proper screen. This is in spite of not having been ab