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 1J96iL-0003iv-Mz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 30 Dec 2007 22:33:02 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with SMTP id lBUMUpQB031230; Sun, 30 Dec 2007 22:30:51 GMT Received: from poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.21]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with ESMTP id lBUMUoO8031204 for ; Sun, 30 Dec 2007 22:30:50 GMT Received: from poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id B40D42080C2 for ; Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:30:49 +0100 (CET) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (poseidon [139.174.2.21]) by poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1C872080A5 for ; Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:30:49 +0100 (CET) Received: from energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de (account wevah [139.174.197.94] verified) by tu-clausthal.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.13) with ESMTPSA id 28905236 for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:30:49 +0100 From: "Hemmann, Volker Armin" To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] NVIDIA 100.14.19 + xorg-server 1.4.0.90 + xorg-x11 7.3 = blackscreen after every restart Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:30:47 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <1198268183.5803.20.camel@ShadowAerie> <200712301447.16503.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <20071230180217.GB28823@nibiru.local> In-Reply-To: <20071230180217.GB28823@nibiru.local> 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; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200712302330.47691.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V5.3 at tu-clausthal.de X-Archives-Salt: 113cbc52-1a17-4ffa-af2c-ef3f11cf35ac X-Archives-Hash: 091c430d6ff4258200213cd571c2b46f On Sonntag, 30. Dezember 2007, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > * Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Actually, Nvidia's binary crap *never* worked for me (GeForce Go 6100). > > > All the versions I tried (all from portage, even the hard masked), > > > crashed the whole machine (!) a few seconds after the Xserver > > > came up. Seem their kernel driver is heavily broken. > > > > maybe it is YOUR HARDWARE that is crap? Overheating? Bad PSU that > > is not able to reliable power the 3d part of the core? > > Quite uncertain. The machine is very stable w/o the NV drivers. > But just loading the kernel module and waiting a few mins > ends up in an total lockup. I could 100% reproduce this problem with > several nv-chipset based notebooks (different geforce versions). > Ah, and there had been an preinstalled Vista on that box, which > worked perfectly with 3D stuff. > So I don't think it's an hw issue. and vista has a much better power managment than linux - could still be overheating. > > > hundreds, thousands, maybe millions of nvidia-on-linux users don't > > have problems. > > Where do you got these numbers from ? NV marketing dept.? from the fact that most people who use nvidia never have problems. But vocal minority with problems is very - well, vocal. People are quiet until they hit a problem.... a good indicator are 'which card to buy' threads. Most people say 'nvidia, had no problems' a few say 'I had problems with nvidia' and all ati users had problems.... -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list