Re: [gentoo-user] problem which makes gnome unusable partially solved

[covici@ccs.covici.com]

covici@ccs.covici.com wrote:

> Hi.  I am having a very bad problem which makes gnome unusable -- once I
> get into the virtual console where the xserver is displaying gnome,
> console 12 in my case, I can never get out of that console --
> control-alt-f1 or anything does not work.  If I try to ssh in from
> somewhere else, I cannot stop gdm because the x server will not stop --
> even kill -9 will not stop it and I have to reboot the system.
> 
> 
> I am using an nvidia card with the closed source module, if that makes
> any difference.  I re-emerged the keyboard and evdev driver, but that
> made no difference.
> 
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Well, I did a couple of things, which made it work, but I think its
pretty fragile.  First, I did go to 4.1.12 which is still the latest
lts.  I had to reinstall the nvidia-drivers and I still had the problem,
interestingly enough, it manifested when I went from console 1 by moving
alt-left-arrow to the X console and got some kind of modeset error.
this led me to think that maybe nvidia-settings had something to do with
it and I discovered I had an old version  not sure how that got to stay
and I tried to install the latest one, which had two effects -- it
downgraded nvidia-drivers to 3.55.11 and tried to install
nvidia-settings, but that would not install because there is a file conflict
with -- guess what -- nvidia drivers!  So I unmerged the old one and for
now it seems to work, but I don't know what will happen in the future
this way.  Very strange!


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         covici@ccs.covici.com