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 4.54) id 1FE6LF-0007bo-To for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:00:46 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1SEvmqo032057; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:57:48 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.204]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1SEo0HV027542 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:50:02 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id j2so1261986nzf for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 06:51:02 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=pkTpsdj/puEt9YowCfPphSvoPYyiXoWcHK/LReIHqnW4fabs/i0+TFaqVYDfZtN3t0Hqm4DuScwknomD+5pc53AeQx16uof6/OQxHkHfARKUWatoSVWC20VXpBvLK7zvdvls02lyo1OkHZsOnTMabR12R6NV+NOSDtcr6H27Dlw= Received: by 10.65.97.16 with SMTP id z16mr564349qbl; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 06:51:02 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.65.211.16 with HTTP; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 06:51:02 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <342e1090602280651s440836ar85613d26238a914a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:51:02 -0300 From: "Daniel da Veiga" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia hangs Xorg In-Reply-To: <331509755@web.de> 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: <331509755@web.de> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k1SEo0HV027542 X-Archives-Salt: 606a7b1f-5186-4292-861e-9da6f0894ebd X-Archives-Hash: 458dad35f533d623484e5be0dcb9b642 On 2/28/06, Jonatan Antoni 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 > ______________________________________________________________ > Verschicken Sie romantische, coole und witzige Bilder per SMS! > Jetzt bei WEB.DE FreeMail: http://f.web.de/?mc=021193 > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCM/IT/P/O d-? s:- a? C++$ UBLA++ P+ L++ E--- W+++$ N o+ K- w O M- V- PS PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+++ R+* tv b+ DI+++ D+ G+ e h+ r+ y++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list