From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MwHPc-00032k-BH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:29:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 44948E07F9; Fri, 9 Oct 2009 15:29:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f220.google.com (mail-fx0-f220.google.com [209.85.220.220]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB71CE07F9 for ; Fri, 9 Oct 2009 15:29:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm20 with SMTP id 20so6696807fxm.14 for ; Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:29:42 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=4ab4BpBreEMT9bnI8ZLoHm/0cQ1pfK4mCu/PdAx5W5Y=; b=bVRlFqsFaRQspINVaAQ5nhQoh4nDEvaCn/c9aejbvbAxOmeb4rqeuCHeSlYE8rnQcm W3YkEkOqqGVXDqIv2coYAGoKLJvEyEBKWlD7iZzeiAoYfHAFljDgvbgYGgVxFR1IPNbL 1wYxW1IiKiZXOoW/DWRPFO6N9u9kGZsGv3FMk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=MUcKFOcQuv0SF+eMXsDbagUJI6SUMhnN9RsqzonQGJzj7EM6DJUEixheppHcid9Sfi 7VhdnpYHjRdbqGJe3daYEtZqovQO4x6xSa4B05Q0yPwq2reCgcgMQOi6ind75O8TORS4 6MdN/sggV7apk1MMxLnARL2RMAwRNAHa64W/s= Received: by 10.86.217.8 with SMTP id p8mr2492946fgg.73.1255102180675; Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:29:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from energy.localnet (energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.197.94]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d4sm141479fga.9.2009.10.09.08.29.39 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:29:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong? Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 17:29:36 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.31.1r4; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) References: <200910091709.22284.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.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 Message-Id: <200910091729.36326.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: f83e86fc-15bc-469d-9d06-73ffe64d2725 X-Archives-Hash: a0d32b0987dfacbc0d4674ddb46c21a8 On Freitag 09 Oktober 2009, Denis wrote: > >> Section "Device" > >> Identifier "Card0" > >> Driver "nvidia" > >> VendorName "nVidia Corporation" > >> BoardName "GeForce 7300 LE" > >> BusID "PCI:1:0:0" > >> Option "UseEdidDpi" "FALSE" > > ==== why? ===== > > >> # Option "DPI" "100 x 100" > >> EndSection > > Sorry - what was that "why?" referring to? I think I put those > options in when I was working on anti-aliasing the fonts to make them > look smooth. That still works. > > > 1.6.3.901 > > is - lets just say you should either use 1.6.3 or 1.6.4 > > and what about your driver version? > > and why 2.6.27? that kernel is acient! > > Well, I used 1.6.3.901-r2 because that's what the portage pulled in > when I did emerge -NDavu world. Portage tree seems to have options to > use 1.6.4, but it was not pulled in by emerge, so maybe it is masked > or keyworded? > > The kernel... Well, I am guilty of not keeping up on kernel updates > because restarting the machine for each upgrade isn't always an option > with my work. Do you think this version of the kernel may contribute > to X instability? > i am saying that you should try the latest kernel with the latest driver for your card