From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J6Bwn-0000Cv-Vb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 21:31:54 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with SMTP id lBMLTxeB017689; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 21:29:59 GMT Received: from QMTA09.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta09.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.96]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with ESMTP id lBMLTvCQ017684 for ; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 21:29:58 GMT Received: from OMTA12.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.44]) by QMTA09.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id Tps41Y00J0xGWP8590Rd00; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 21:29:57 +0000 Received: from iwillxp333 ([71.226.99.102]) by OMTA12.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id TxVx1Y0092CYsn33Y00000; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 21:29:57 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=6Njc1U3R0BIA:10 a=xEq9QatQDNJjfpYoVWYA:9 a=ek0QIe43dSb9b7Mz810A:7 a=_zygYyoQ4To0LeL0Qo7g7AB7TPUA:4 a=MSl-tDqOz04A:10 a=WeOa-AV5lc8A:10 a=plE8mkVoi54A:10 Message-ID: <000901c844e1$a2991190$0200a8c0@iwillxp333> From: "Drake Donahue" To: References: <1198268183.5803.20.camel@ShadowAerie> <200712212206.38320.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <1198273274.5803.28.camel@ShadowAerie> <002a01c84425$3ee3e2e0$0200a8c0@iwillxp333> <1198333429.5803.42.camel@ShadowAerie> Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] NVIDIA 100.14.19 + xorg-server 1.4.0.90+xorg-x11 7.3 = blackscreen after every restart Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:28:42 -0500 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 X-Archives-Salt: b3b45c38-737f-4b83-a706-81ae057286e3 X-Archives-Hash: f2d01fe859f8a2783959206eb8763a01 ----- Original Message ----- From: "B Vance" To: Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2007 9:23 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] NVIDIA 100.14.19 + xorg-server 1.4.0.90+xorg-x11 7.3 = blackscreen after every restart > After the system restarts, it shows [1] nvidia * [2] xorg-x11. I'm > hoping that the asterix by nvidia indicates that it isn't dropping the > opengl setting from nvidia that is causing this. > > B Vance Apologies for my top posting earlier. You might try finding and renaming every instance of xorg.conf on your machine to something else and then reboot the machine. If no xorg.conf exists, the current X will run through its own script (not named xorg.conf) and usually automagically produce a working windowed environment (or fail). I believe that if you have an old xorg.conf, emerge nvidia-drivers will edit it retaining part, deleting part, and adding part. If this is correct the possibility exists that the edited xorg.conf will have internal inconsistencies. BTW, being a slob I use the terms terminal, console, and command line interface pretty much interchangeably (sorry again). I presume you boot directly to a windowed environment (desktop) when all goes well. And that currently the boot gets to the point of trying to start X, fails, and drops you to a command line prompt at which you login and then type: emerge nvidia-drivers, after the emerge nvidia-drivers, you type some form of a 'startx' or 'start a display manager command' which then works to take you to a desktop. If these assumptions are coreect, an eselect opengl list after the crash and before the emerge nvidia-drivers could be informative. After emerge nvidia-drivers the list should be as you found it and it should still be that way for the next start of X. > On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 18:00 -0500, Drake Donahue wrote: >> After a failure and while in console, what output does: >> eselect opengl list >> give? >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "B Vance" >> To: >> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 4:41 PM >> Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] NVIDIA 100.14.19 + xorg-server 1.4.0.90 >> +xorg-x11 7.3 = blackscreen after every restart >> >> >> > The only version that I haven't tried it with is Nvidia-drivers >> > 100.14.23, I try to avoid hard masked ebuilds if at all possible. The >> > last driver that worked "properly" was 1.0.9639, with the previous >> > stable ABI of xorg-server. >> > >> > I'm assuming that the 169.04 you're referring to is Nvidia-settings. >> > I haven't tried the masked version yet. Would that have this kind of >> > effect? I thought it just modified xorg.conf if you ran it. >> > >> > Thanks for the info and assistance. >> > >> > B. Vance >> > >> > >> > On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 22:06 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> what about 169.04 or the latest releasse .07? >> > >> > -- >> > gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list >> > >> > > -- > gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list > -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list