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 1R5fv4-00081A-07 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:38:06 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1DD2721C20D; Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:37:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f51.google.com (mail-ew0-f51.google.com [209.85.215.51]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A11121C12E for ; Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:33:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy5 with SMTP id 5so670361ewy.10 for ; Mon, 19 Sep 2011 08:33:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:organization :x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=UOQA2XHZeYv7qhoc0wRJYe73heDf+JtNOfPkEKggFDo=; b=grUNxUqeOoy2/EigkgbSVJGgQPI+DvTO2H9a54siV5OkHLnR9aidR8kZgChkdU88aH u+z/myV4BFdvBVUk8IlsWPuXWKyOwkwf6NYdv9hzi4SC9S2v0L4XiSsvqwUkfRZ+lrPC AQab/ANA5uiTwjD4Cl4mQnB792fZ+Df2h6HmU= Received: by 10.14.8.144 with SMTP id 16mr798642eer.11.1316446395385; Mon, 19 Sep 2011 08:33:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rohan.example.com (196-210-153-55.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.210.153.55]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w19sm47148772eeh.6.2011.09.19.08.33.12 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 19 Sep 2011 08:33:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:33:08 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Screen not turning on at startx. Nvidia Gfx Message-ID: <20110919173308.4579a6d3@rohan.example.com> In-Reply-To: References: <201109191115.12466.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Organization: Internet Solutions X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.8 (GTK+ 2.24.4; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: a0ba26e512a726c5be48fe1bd997ca65 On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:23:23 +0100 Datty wrote: > Thanks for the reply, I have looked at the document but unfortunately > I can't use Nouveau because I need 3d so I went for what I could use. > I've dropped uvesafb totally as it was pretty much useless anyway. It > has sort of helped a little, its coming up what seems like more often > than before but its still blanking quite a lot on boot. A few minutes > of switching terminals does eventually bring it up but there doesn't > seem to be any reasoning behind why it does and doesn't work. Nothing > jumps out at me in the log either. Sounds like a race condition between the kernel and the uvesafb driver. Only one of them can control the screen at any given time and console handover is a tricky business (IIRC this was one of the very things that drove the development of KMS). Perhaps every now and then uvesafb just ahppened to grab (or ungrab) the console at just the right time. -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com