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 1Dqaix-0008Ra-AQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2005 18:03:47 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j67I2JTn009701; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 18:02:19 GMT Received: from host201.com (host201.com [203.194.159.239]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j67HvWit016113 for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 17:57:34 GMT Received: (qmail 6895 invoked from network); 7 Jul 2005 17:57:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.6?) (86.130.44.30) by host201.com with SMTP; 7 Jul 2005 17:57:29 -0000 Message-ID: <42CD6D06.7000804@pusspaws.net> Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 18:57:26 +0100 From: Dave S User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050430) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Help I have b0rked my system :( References: <42CC1806.2040508@pusspaws.net> <42CC5A13.1000908@planet.nl> <42CCCE50.1090307@pusspaws.net> <200507071026.08575.ejbr@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <200507071026.08575.ejbr@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ccf8e0fc-4461-4718-9786-361e99e24d29 X-Archives-Hash: 1c1fd2644c08377e4a3b13dd43f9b84f Ed Jabbour wrote: >On Thursday 07 July 2005 02:40 am, Dave S wrote: > > > >>>...what about xcompmanager (or whatever it's called)? Is that possibly >>>running? >>> >>>Holly >>> >>> >>You could be right, Im going out to work now but I tried changing >>'nvidia' to 'nv' in xorg.conf and everyting returned to normal, I >>re-emerged nvidia-glx + nvidia-kernel, re-booted, re-tryed 'nvidia' and >>wierdness returned. >> >>Haven't got any more time but will look at it this evening ... >> >> > >If you emerged the nvidia stuff, you got the newest versions. Do you have >the RIVA TNT2 by any chance? If so, portage now has 1.0.7664, which acc/to >NVidia is not compatible with the TNT2. I use 7174, which works fine. This >would explain why nv works, but nvidia doesn't, and also why your X used to >work, but doesn't now. > >-- >Ed Jabbour > > Strangley my video card is a RIVA TNT2 :) I checked Nvidias website, apparently TNT2 is OK with *1.0-7667 so I will give it a go. Thanks for the tip, I will let you know how it goes Dave * -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list