From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DvLfk-0005f7-Mw for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 21:00:09 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6KKx8UN003491; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 20:59:08 GMT Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.192]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6KKtcuu011030 for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 20:55:38 GMT Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id j1so2053192rnf for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 13:55:48 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=JFfWyZsKLLublGf+D2lOQKEActFNtxMHUKFUx+ekYnYnI4YZ7C/1bPpsiVYxN+qECEeuhueEaC0HQaqqREpt7fya4STp102O5P62Z8AYCKDQtO1/hWfbY6AQmu1cmY2l+JXvWCRzqUogYHbq69dPHIsp8hOz36Kx1eHAevFPrps= Received: by 10.38.11.60 with SMTP id 60mr668339rnk; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 13:55:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.78.42 with HTTP; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 13:55:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <342e10905072013552ea3c01e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 17:55:36 -0300 From: Daniel da Veiga To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Xwindows stopped working. No errors in Xorg log file. In-Reply-To: <200507202026.j6KKQdFS027557@robin.gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <42DDDE9F.1020107@asmallpond.org> <200507202026.j6KKQdFS027557@robin.gentoo.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j6KKtcuu011030 X-Archives-Salt: bce044cf-63de-4bdc-8879-1decbe29c1b1 X-Archives-Hash: 0ce53fc605c831bab9faf84a5aaff122 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 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 > > > > -- > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list