From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1H2OLQ-000624-1i for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 08:53:04 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l048lGdV022176; Thu, 4 Jan 2007 08:47:16 GMT Received: from aha.ru (mail1.zmail.ru [195.2.83.166]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l048lF7E007987 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2007 08:47:16 GMT Received: from [85.141.185.229] (account xdel@quake.ru HELO [85.141.185.229]) by zfrontend1.aha.ru (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.8) with ESMTP-TLS id 356715741 for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 11:47:15 +0300 Message-ID: <459CBF18.5080208@quake.ru> Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 11:47:20 +0300 From: Andrei Korolyov User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) 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 To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: X.Org troubles References: <003201c72f50$a56642a0$6f0a0a0a@RDLaptop3> <459BFB6E.8050907@quake.ru> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 450afba1-21f5-44a8-b05e-ab474144246a X-Archives-Hash: 49e3db32d7b26f92a731d1d99ff7a700 > A number of points: > > 1) Don't hijack threads. You replied to a firefox thread with this > totally unrelated item. If you are going to start a new subject, start a > new thread with a NEW message, don't reply to an old thread with a REPLY > message. Some people's clients actually thread messages according to the > references headers, and replying to a message means it (and its upthread) > are in the references header regardless of what you put in the subject. > > 2) You mention in a later reply that you are using nvidia proprietaryware > (aka slaveryware, see my sig) drivers. I couldn't legally run such > software (where EULAs are considered legal, at least), since I can't agree > to the EULAs, even if I wanted to run them, and as I believe folks' > willingness to run such things only delays the availability of fully > functional freedomware solutions, I won't run them except possibly > in the interest of reverse engineering them. Thus, the degree to which I > and those like me can help will be rather limited. None-the-less... > > 3) It would seem your OpenGL is screwed up. I'd suggest you have a look > at eselect opengl , and see what your options are, then play with > them a bit. My guess is that you may be somehow stuck with a half-way > NVidia-slaveryware implementation and a halfway native/freedomware > xorg/mesa implementation. If you toggle it to the xorg/mesa > implementation, then to the slaveryware implementation, it may start > working once again. > > 4) (3) assumes that you used the Gentoo ebuild to install the slaveryware. > If you installed the NVidia stuff direct, you will have issues because it > doesn't understand the eselect switching mechanism Gentoo uses. That > /will/ result in a mixed up system, one of the ways the screwup above > could occur in the first place. You'll have to try uninstalling the > direct/manual install if possible, then try to merge the Gentoo package, > which will hopefully straighten things out. If it doesn't, there are > additional steps you can try manually, but it's not something I've done > since I won't do slaveryware, and thus am not familiar with them enough to > try to explain (tho I've seen folks post that they eventually got it > working). Ultimately, it may be that you'll need to backup your /home and > /etc settings and try a new stage-X install. If you have been running > FEATURES=buildpkg, it won't be that difficult and you should be back up > and running with a recustomized system fairly quickly. You can try > quickpkg to package up an existing system, but it might package up the > screwups too, so it's not so clear a solution. > > Thanks for corrections. I`ll been used portage-based NVidia driver when i solve system crash. All actions which you tell will been maked without result many times later :( -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list