Re: [gentoo-user] Xwindows stopped working. No errors in Xorg log file.

[Daniel da Veiga <danieldaveiga@gmail.com>]

I've never been able to use the drivers at the portage tree for my
nvidia card, always used the ones downloaded directly from their
website, because the ones from portage gave me errors. Besides the
task to redo the installation each time I recompile the kernel, there
were no problems, ever.

Try it.

On 7/20/05, Daevid Vincent <daevid@daevid.com> wrote:
> I tried to switch my window manager to Gnome and also XFCE (both worked fine
> before too) and that didn't solve the problem, so I don't think it's a KDE
> thing. But I have had KDE problems before as you suggest with other nvidia
> drivers.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Richard Fish [mailto:bigfish@asmallpond.org]
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 10:18 PM
> > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Xwindows stopped working. No
> > errors in Xorg log file.
> >
> > Daevid Vincent wrote:
> >
> > >I run a pretty stable system. I do however run ~x86 for KDE
> > and Gnome.
> > >Something changed recently in an "emerge -Davu world" or
> > "system" that
> > >causes X to not start anymore? The Xorg log below doesn't
> > have any errors or
> > >warnings or anything. There are no unresolved symbols as the
> > message says. I
> > >did notice that glib was updated, but the
> > "3242-glibc-2.3.5.log" doesn't say
> > >anything interesting. I ran "rm -rf /root/.revdep-rebuild.*;
> > revdep-rebuild
> > >-av" and that said I was golden, it didn't re-compile a
> > single thing.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > One of the things we just discovered on this list is that
> > newer versions
> > of KDE are trying to use things like the Composite extension,
> > and it is
> > causing problems for some people (slowness was the previous case).
> >
> > Some things to try:
> >
> > 1. Disable Composite.
> > 2. Disable DRI.
> > 3. Try the x.org "nv" driver instead of "nvidia".
> >
> > Depending upon whether and which one of those work, you will have a
> > place to start from on more debugging.
> >
> > -Richard
> >
> >
> > >I usually use 'meld' (x-windows) for my etc-update, so I do
> > have some files
> > >that need updating, but they don't seem that they should affect X??
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Probably not...more likely opengl or composite is causing the
> > problem for X.
> >
> >
> > -Richard
> >
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Daniel da Veiga
Computer Operator - RS - Brazil

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