Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia hangs Xorg

[Mark <imnotmark@verizon.net>]

i had the same problem, even when i would switch back to VT1 it would be
a black screen, so i uesed the drivers from nvidia.com and it worked
fine, seems to be a problem in portage


On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 14:48 +0100, Jonatan Antoni wrote:
> Hy there,
> 
> I'm playing around with the nvidia kernel-modules and glx-drivers for x11 for a while.
> First all works fine, but using mozilla-firefox crashes the x-server after a while. Let
> me give you an example: Running firefox works, going to google as well, but going to
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Dual_Monitors and click the link "4.1 Moving focus between screens"
> hangs the display. I can still move around the mouse-cursor, but everything else is locked.
> 
> Logging in to my system remotely by ssh, I can find the X-proccess taking nearly 100 percent
> of cpu-time. By restarting xdm the X-system comes back correctly.
> 
> Now I'm back using the default nv-driver of the xorg-project, because that's the only way of sending
> this email without x11 hangs. In the future I want to use the dual-head function of my geforce fx5200
> for a video-beamer. Is there another way without using the original nvidia drivers or has somebody
> a hint about that nasty error?
> 
> thx,
> jonatan
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