Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia hangs Xorg

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

On 2/28/06, Jonatan Antoni <jantoni@web.de> wrote:
> Hy there,
>
> I'm playing around with the nvidia kernel-modules and glx-drivers for x11 for a while.
> First all works fine, but using mozilla-firefox crashes the x-server after a while. Let
> me give you an example: Running firefox works, going to google as well, but going to
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Dual_Monitors and click the link "4.1 Moving focus between screens"
> hangs the display. I can still move around the mouse-cursor, but everything else is locked.
>
> Logging in to my system remotely by ssh, I can find the X-proccess taking nearly 100 percent
> of cpu-time. By restarting xdm the X-system comes back correctly.
>
> Now I'm back using the default nv-driver of the xorg-project, because that's the only way of sending
> this email without x11 hangs. In the future I want to use the dual-head function of my geforce fx5200
> for a video-beamer. Is there another way without using the original nvidia drivers or has somebody
> a hint about that nasty error?
>

I have an FX 5200 too, and never had problems with it, I used to
download and install the NVidia drivers from their site, but then I
noticed that portage could handle it, so I just call "emerge
nvidia-settings" (as it gets by dependency nvidia-kernel and
nvidia-glx). Everything works. Have you tried following the NVidia
Guide from the Gentoo Docs?

> thx,
> jonatan
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