On Sun, 11 May 2014 20:12:54 -0400, gottlieb@nyu.edu wrote:

> >   ***IT'S LOADING BOTH NOUVEAU AND NV (NVIDIA BINARY BLOB)
> > DRIVERS***.  
> 
> I am embarrassed to report that I missed that (perhaps nv is the nv
> nvidia; but in any case it is loading two drivers, which is bad).
> Thank you very much for this catch
> 
> > Plan A) unmerge the Nvidia binary drivers  
> 
> I had done that initially

nv is not the Nvidia binary driver, it is the 2D-only open source driver
in XOrg. I expect you have nv in VIDEO_CARDS. 

> > Plan B) if Plan A fails, manually remove
> > /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/nv_drv.so  
> 
> This helped considerably.

Until the next XOrg update, at which point it will be reinstalled and
your problems will start again. Set VIDEO_CARDS correctly then do

emerge -uavDN && emerge -ca


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Assassins do it from behind.