[gentoo-user] Nvidia-drivers stopped working

[gentoo-user] Nvidia-drivers stopped working

[Ernie Schroder]

A few days ago I ran my updates and nvidia-settings was updated to 
1.0.20070302 All was good until last night. I openen konqueror to browse my 
home dir and I got a mime-type error and no files displayed. Trying to do 
konqueror /home/ernie gave me errors that I can't quote but mime types was 
mentioned again. Assuming that something was just hung up I did top which 
showed X using 95% cpu Killing java_vm, firefox, kmail and any suspected cpu 
hogs had no effect so I killed X and attempted to restart it. I got the 
dreaded "no screens found" error. Nothing in the logs was any more 
enlightening and a look at xorg.conf showed no recent changes that I could 
identify. I changed my driver in xorg.conf to "nv" from "nvidia" and X runs, 
slow as hell but it runs.
nvidia-drivers is currently at 100.14.09. I need advice getting this straight. 
Is there a file where nvidia-settings keeps config data other than xorg.conf? 
should I update to the masked nvidia-drivers-100.14.11 ?
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Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia-drivers stopped working

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Sonntag, 5. August 2007, Ernie Schroder wrote:
> A few days ago I ran my updates and nvidia-settings was updated to
> 1.0.20070302 All was good until last night. I openen konqueror to browse my
> home dir and I got a mime-type error and no files displayed. Trying to do
> konqueror /home/ernie gave me errors that I can't quote but mime types was
> mentioned again. Assuming that something was just hung up I did top which
> showed X using 95% cpu Killing java_vm, firefox, kmail and any suspected
> cpu hogs had no effect so I killed X and attempted to restart it. 

'suspected'? ps aux, and/or (h)top should show you the hog.


> nvidia-drivers is currently at 100.14.09. I need advice getting this
> straight. Is there a file where nvidia-settings keeps config

~/.nvidia-settings-rc

> data other 
> than xorg.conf? should I update to the masked nvidia-drivers-100.14.11 ?

yes.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia-drivers stopped working

[Ernie Schroder]

On Sunday 05 August 2007, a tiny voice compelled Volker Armin Hemmann to 
write:
> On Sonntag, 5. August 2007, Ernie Schroder wrote:
> > A few days ago I ran my updates and nvidia-settings was updated to
> > 1.0.20070302 All was good until last night. I openen konqueror to browse
> > my home dir and I got a mime-type error and no files displayed. Trying to
> > do konqueror /home/ernie gave me errors that I can't quote but mime types
> > was mentioned again. Assuming that something was just hung up I did top
> > which showed X using 95% cpu Killing java_vm, firefox, kmail and any
> > suspected cpu hogs had no effect so I killed X and attempted to restart
> > it.
>
> 'suspected'? ps aux, and/or (h)top should show you the hog.
only "X" showed high cpu usage. No associated apps were above what I'm used to 
seeing.
>
> > nvidia-drivers is currently at 100.14.09. I need advice getting this
> > straight. Is there a file where nvidia-settings keeps config
>
> ~/.nvidia-settings-rc

showed the file was generated back in 2004 and hasn't been modified since 
7/2/04
>
> > data other
> > than xorg.conf? should I update to the masked nvidia-drivers-100.14.11 ?
>
> yes.


NO! The newer drivers build but warn of MTRR support lacking on my card. Funny 
I thought that it was there. It's a gforce4 ti 4200.
I had to revert to nvidia-drivers-1.0.9639. I guess the drivers got updated in 
a previous update and I missed the warnings. Funny it worked for over a week.

Thanks for the help.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia-drivers stopped working

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Sonntag, 5. August 2007, Ernie Schroder wrote:
> On Sunday 05 August 2007, a tiny voice compelled Volker Armin Hemmann to
>
> write:
> > On Sonntag, 5. August 2007, Ernie Schroder wrote:
> > > A few days ago I ran my updates and nvidia-settings was updated to
> > > 1.0.20070302 All was good until last night. I openen konqueror to
> > > browse my home dir and I got a mime-type error and no files displayed.
> > > Trying to do konqueror /home/ernie gave me errors that I can't quote
> > > but mime types was mentioned again. Assuming that something was just
> > > hung up I did top which showed X using 95% cpu Killing java_vm,
> > > firefox, kmail and any suspected cpu hogs had no effect so I killed X
> > > and attempted to restart it.
> >
> > 'suspected'? ps aux, and/or (h)top should show you the hog.
>
> only "X" showed high cpu usage. No associated apps were above what I'm used
> to seeing.
>
> > > nvidia-drivers is currently at 100.14.09. I need advice getting this
> > > straight. Is there a file where nvidia-settings keeps config
> >
> > ~/.nvidia-settings-rc
>
> showed the file was generated back in 2004 and hasn't been modified since
> 7/2/04

so what? maybe the latest nvidia-settings does not like the old file? You can 
just move it someone and try...

>
> > > data other
> > > than xorg.conf? should I update to the masked nvidia-drivers-100.14.11
> > > ?
> >
> > yes.
>
> NO! The newer drivers build but warn of MTRR support lacking on my card.

and you have checked that you have mtrr support in the kernel?

> Funny I thought that it was there. It's a gforce4 ti 4200.
> I had to revert to nvidia-drivers-1.0.9639. I guess the drivers got updated
> in a previous update and I missed the warnings. Funny it worked for over a
> week.

emm, you might want to look up about 'legacy drivers' and 'supported cards'.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia-drivers stopped working

[Ernie Schroder]

On Sunday 05 August 2007, a tiny voice compelled Volker Armin Hemmann to 
write:
> On Sonntag, 5. August 2007, Ernie Schroder wrote:
> > On Sunday 05 August 2007, a tiny voice compelled Volker Armin Hemmann to
> >
> > write:
> > > On Sonntag, 5. August 2007, Ernie Schroder wrote:
> > > > A few days ago I ran my updates and nvidia-settings was updated to
> > > > 1.0.20070302 All was good until last night. I openen konqueror to
> > > > browse my home dir and I got a mime-type error and no files
> > > > displayed. Trying to do konqueror /home/ernie gave me errors that I
> > > > can't quote but mime types was mentioned again. Assuming that
> > > > something was just hung up I did top which showed X using 95% cpu
> > > > Killing java_vm, firefox, kmail and any suspected cpu hogs had no
> > > > effect so I killed X and attempted to restart it.
> > >
> > > 'suspected'? ps aux, and/or (h)top should show you the hog.
> >
> > only "X" showed high cpu usage. No associated apps were above what I'm
> > used to seeing.
> >
> > > > nvidia-drivers is currently at 100.14.09. I need advice getting this
> > > > straight. Is there a file where nvidia-settings keeps config
> > >
> > > ~/.nvidia-settings-rc
> >
> > showed the file was generated back in 2004 and hasn't been modified since
> > 7/2/04
>
> so what? maybe the latest nvidia-settings does not like the old file? You
> can just move it someone and try...
>
> > > > data other
> > > > than xorg.conf? should I update to the masked
> > > > nvidia-drivers-100.14.11 ?
> > >
> > > yes.
> >
> > NO! The newer drivers build but warn of MTRR support lacking on my card.
>
> and you have checked that you have mtrr support in the kernel?

first thing
>
> > Funny I thought that it was there. It's a gforce4 ti 4200.
> > I had to revert to nvidia-drivers-1.0.9639. I guess the drivers got
> > updated in a previous update and I missed the warnings. Funny it worked
> > for over a week.
>
> emm, you might want to look up about 'legacy drivers' and 'supported
> cards'.

There you go. For my card I have to stick with the 1.0.96xx series drivers. 
might be time to look at building a new box.



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Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia-drivers stopped working

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Montag, 6. August 2007, Ernie Schroder wrote:
> On Sunday 05 August 2007, a tiny voice compelled Volker Armin Hemmann to
>
> write:

> > > NO! The newer drivers build but warn of MTRR support lacking on my
> > > card.
> >
> > and you have checked that you have mtrr support in the kernel?
>
> first thing
>

;) 


> > > Funny I thought that it was there. It's a gforce4 ti 4200.
> > > I had to revert to nvidia-drivers-1.0.9639. I guess the drivers got
> > > updated in a previous update and I missed the warnings. Funny it worked
> > > for over a week.
> >
> > emm, you might want to look up about 'legacy drivers' and 'supported
> > cards'.
>
> There you go. For my card I have to stick with the 1.0.96xx series drivers.
> might be time to look at building a new box.

luckily mid range graphic cards are cheap today ...
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[gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia-drivers stopped working

[Marc Blumentritt]

You did check the new and updated nvidia guide?

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml

Regards,
Marc

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