From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <gentoo-user+bounces-75082-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>) id 1JLhmk-0001N3-DF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 03 Feb 2008 16:33:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 78AECE0562; Sun, 3 Feb 2008 16:33:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from spore.ath.cx (66-191-143-114.static.roch.mn.charter.com [66.191.143.114]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5384CE0562 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Sun, 3 Feb 2008 16:33:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pascal.spore.ath.cx (pascal.spore.ath.cx [192.168.1.100]) by spore.ath.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 167D321CF for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Sun, 3 Feb 2008 10:33:36 -0600 (CST) Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 10:33:34 -0600 From: Dan Farrell <dan@spore.ath.cx> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] upgraded video card from geforce 6600 to geforce 8600... Message-ID: <20080203103334.157aeba6@pascal.spore.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <864805E437EF7C40986276CE00F29E4C01BE3F2B@ava-es5.solers.local> References: <20080129112038.7cc13163@lbg2.evolone.org> <3b5772b30801291137v509aa13by8c32ffac2001a12a@mail.gmail.com> <20080129194545.09384157@loonquawl.digimed.co.uk> <3b5772b30801291228j11f24adag892f6691b9ded06d@mail.gmail.com> <47A0D531.3000207@comcast.net> <864805E437EF7C40986276CE00F29E4C01BE3F2B@ava-es5.solers.local> Organization: Spore, Ltd. X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.12.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 93aa22bd-43d5-4011-879b-1e387b285077 X-Archives-Hash: b0a3ddd8674ced0d6ec903d014488a31 On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:03:16 -0500 "Budd, Tracy" <Tracy.Budd@solers.com> wrote: People will appreciate it if you don't respond to unrelated posts. Many mail browsers (my own included) organize by the in-reply-to header (at least I think that's the one): In-Reply-To: <47A0D531.3000207@comcast.net> and have probably organized your post in the middle of a VMWare discussion, just as mine has. Thanks in advance!=20 > I recompiled nvidia-drivers, for one thing, I don't think you should have had to recompile the nvidia-drivers for the update, you're moving from two nvidia cards that are both supported by the same (most recent) version of the driver from what I can tell on nvidia's site. The same driver can drive both cards. You would want to recompile if you changed=20 Secondly, you might want to try upgrading the drivers, as the 8600 is a more recent card than the 6600 and you might need new drivers. Just make sure you did an emerge --sync some time recently and that shouldn't be a problem. =20 And finally, it's not really a 'recompile' (even though we _both_ called it one) because the nvidia drivers are binaries - nvidia hasn't released open sources for them. =20 > but when I tried running X, I got a blank screen. You might need to reconfigure the Devices section of X. In my mind, the best way to do this is to run X -configure from ~/ and then copy-paste the relevant section of the new file (configured for your new 8600) to the old file (replace the 6600 device lines with those for 8600). =20 > Couldn't get back to the console. I assume Ctrl-Alt-F[1-6] didn't help you. If not, it almost sounds like X is locking up. reminds me of this[1] release highlight (this driver came out 1/21/08): "Fixed a bug that caused the X driver to crash if the X.Org GLX extension module was loaded intead of NVIDIA=E2=80=99s." "Fixed a bug in the Linux/i2c algorithm driver implementation that prevented core transfer types from succeeding." Best of luck to you! =20 [1] http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_169.09.html -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list