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From: Joseph <syscon780@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia driver - blank screen not even console display
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 00:32:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130223073214.GA3444@syscon7.inet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <kg9jpr$9tp$1@ger.gmane.org>

On 02/23/13 07:24, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>On 22/02/13 08:14, Joseph wrote:
>> I just upgraded system including kernel to 3.5.7 because of udev-197
>> Now I have a blank screen, not even console login (I can only access is
>> via ssh)
>
>With NVidia, it is usually a good idea to at least use the latest stable
>gentoo-sources. So you should use 3.7.9. Also, it *is* a good idea to
>keyword the latest NVidia driver that's considered stable by NVidia, not
>by Gentoo. That would be 313.18.
>
>So update to gentoo-sources-3.7.9 and nvidia-drivers-313.18. And make
>sure you do (as root):
>
>   eselect opencl set nvidia
>   eselect opengl set nvidia

I'm starting to have serious doubts in Nvidia (those binary drivers are piece of crap).
My system just freeze after one day; I went back to nvidia-dirvers-295.75

-- 
Joseph


  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-23  7:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-22  6:14 [gentoo-user] Nvidia driver - blank screen not even console display Joseph
2013-02-22  7:22 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-02-22  7:34   ` Joseph
2013-02-22  8:10     ` Alexandre Domi
2013-02-22  8:24       ` Joseph
2013-02-22  8:36         ` Dale
2013-02-22  8:50           ` Joseph
2013-02-22  8:59             ` Dale
2013-02-22  9:29               ` Joseph
2013-02-22  8:51           ` Joseph
2013-02-22  8:52           ` Alexandre Domi
2013-02-22  9:07             ` Joseph
2013-02-22  9:14               ` Alexandre Domi
2013-02-22  9:21                 ` Joseph
2013-02-22  9:33                   ` Dale
2013-02-22  9:41                     ` Joseph
2013-02-22  9:35                   ` Joseph
2013-02-22  9:39                   ` Joseph
2013-02-22  9:49                     ` Raffaele BELARDI
2013-02-22 10:15                       ` Joseph
2013-02-22 10:28                         ` Raffaele BELARDI
2013-02-22 12:17                         ` Dale
2013-02-22 12:42                           ` Joseph
2013-02-22 12:53                             ` Dale
2013-02-22 20:26                               ` Joseph
2013-02-22 23:41                                 ` Dale
2013-02-22 10:26                       ` Joseph
2013-02-24  3:39                       ` Joseph
2013-02-23  1:26         ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2013-02-23  3:03           ` Joseph
2013-02-23  5:24 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2013-02-23  7:32   ` Joseph [this message]
2013-02-23  8:55     ` Neil Bothwick
2013-02-23 22:53       ` Joseph
2013-02-24  9:08         ` Nikos Chantziaras
2013-02-23 22:39   ` Joseph
2013-02-23 22:49     ` Randolph Maaßen

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