Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia update problems

2011-01-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
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 screen. This > is in spite of not having been

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia update problems

2010-12-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 31 December 2010 12:52:08 Peter Humphrey wrote: > Therefore I'm going to mask this version of nvidia-drivers and revert > to the previous version. That made no difference. Nor did reverting to the previous kernel revision. I noticed that xdm-setup was being run even though I had rc_ho

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia update problems

2010-12-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 31 December 2010 12:52:08 I wrote: > When I start the system, instead of the kdm login screen I get a > blinking cursor in the top-right of a blank screen. Of course that should have been the top-left. Sorry. -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia update problems

2010-12-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 31 December 2010 11:56:05 Neil Bothwick wrote: > " x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-260.19.29 So'm I. Ever since I upgraded nvidia-drivers to 260-19-29 I've had to recompile it every time I boot the system. This is weird. When I start the system, instead of the kdm login screen I get a bli

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia update problems

2010-12-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 13:29:19 +0500, Gary Golden wrote: > I have no idea what that means. What should I do? > Read the list archives, this was discussed and solved less than two days ago. Hint: Look for the thread with the subject " signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] nvidia update problems

2010-12-31 Thread Gary Golden
Merry Christmas! I'm trying to update system, but stuck with the following message: * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be * installed at the same time on the same system. (x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-260.19.29, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by x11-drive