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 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IHt8R-0001mV-5l for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 06 Aug 2007 03:19:59 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l763Idjx006491; Mon, 6 Aug 2007 03:18:39 GMT Received: from fmailhost01.isp.att.net (fmailhost01.isp.att.net [204.127.217.101]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l763EPaK001750 for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2007 03:14:25 GMT Received: from mrk (adsl-065-012-196-191.sip.bct.bellsouth.net[65.12.196.191]) by bellsouth.net (frfwmhc01) with ESMTP id <20070806031423H0100i0jt1e>; Mon, 6 Aug 2007 03:14:23 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [65.12.196.191] From: Ernie Schroder To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia-drivers stopped working Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 22:14:19 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200708051254.22641.schroder@ntplx.net> <200708051550.49288.schroder@ntplx.net> <200708060112.51586.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> In-Reply-To: <200708060112.51586.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200708052214.19474.schroder@ntplx.net> X-Archives-Salt: 1ecc3f64-f548-49a7-a37b-e5ec3d0b53a8 X-Archives-Hash: 079c96764257b8855577a92d562fc776 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. -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list