[gentoo-user] Help I have b0rked my system :(

[gentoo-user] Help I have b0rked my system :(

[Dave S]

Please help, I have managed to really screw up my second gentoo box,

** How I did it **

Well, I tried emergeing gnome, liked the look of it but then it appeared
to crash, all icons on the desktop went & the bottom taskbar stopped
working.

Going into KDE all the K menus appeared messed up ie no kcontrol but
quite a few gnome icons and apps.

Not having emerge sync, emerge -e world for some time I did an emerge
sync, system runs 247 so its not a problem.

I had previously written a bash script to run through all the packages
on the system & re-emerge them skipping any packages that have problems
emergeing. Its still got approx 250 to go kde edu etc ...

Has worked great in the past.

** Whats happened **

Well what hasnt :(

The kernel boots, all services start, X starts and the xorg logs look
OK, etc-update showed no updates needed, weird since I have now emerged
approx 230 packages

KDM starts and presents me with a default login screen but it has no
box, everything is 100% transparent to the background apart from the
witting and logos.

As I type to login I get no text but I can login to my default fluxbox.

When I do, gkrellm shows an outline but is 100% transparent, right
clicking for menus causes a menu title to come up but all options are
invisible + the screen numbers overlay one gets overwritten by two etc
etc and ends up as a confused mess.

** Help **

I am at a loss here, I could tell you more about the graphical problems
but I do not know if this would be useful. The system is working but
graphicly b0rked, any suggestions please :)

Dave












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Re: [gentoo-user] Help I have b0rked my system :(

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

Hi,

you don't have composite activated, do you?
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Re: [gentoo-user] Help I have b0rked my system :(

[Dave S]

Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:

>Hi,
>
>you don't have composite activated, do you?
>  
>

I have looked in xorg.conf but cannot find any reference to it, just in
case I swapped xorg.conf for an old copy, same problem :(

Dave
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Re: [gentoo-user] Help I have b0rked my system :(

[Holly Bostick]

Dave S schreef:
> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>you don't have composite activated, do you?
>> 
>>
> 
> 
> I have looked in xorg.conf but cannot find any reference to it, just in
> case I swapped xorg.conf for an old copy, same problem :(
> 
> Dave

I've gotta say, composite was the first thing I thought of as well-- and
I've never even seen it in use, much less used it myself.

But would changing xorg.conf help, if the xorg package was compiled with
the +composite USE flag set (which is what I at least am wondering
about, rather than whether it's activated in the config or not)?

I don't know anything about the feature, really, but given that all your
problems seem to involve sudden, extreme, and unwanted transparency, and
that's what composite does (transparency)....

...what about xcompmanager (or whatever it's called)? Is that possibly
running?

Holly
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Re: [gentoo-user] Help I have b0rked my system :(

[Dave S]

>I've gotta say, composite was the first thing I thought of as well-- and
>I've never even seen it in use, much less used it myself.
>
>But would changing xorg.conf help, if the xorg package was compiled with
>the +composite USE flag set (which is what I at least am wondering
>about, rather than whether it's activated in the config or not)?
>
>I don't know anything about the feature, really, but given that all your
>problems seem to involve sudden, extreme, and unwanted transparency, and
>that's what composite does (transparency)....
>
>...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 ...

Cheers
Dave
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Re: [gentoo-user] Help I have b0rked my system :(

[Ed Jabbour]

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.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Help I have b0rked my system :(

[Dave S]

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.
>
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>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
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Re: [gentoo-user] Help I have b0rked my system :(

[Dave S]

Dave S wrote:

>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
>*
>  
>

Er didn't work, tried 7174 as you suggest, :-) :-) :-)  AOK

Dave

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Re: [gentoo-user] Help I have b0rked my system :(

[Ed Jabbour]

On Thursday 07 July 2005 01:57 pm, Dave S wrote:
> Ed Jabbour wrote:

> >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.

> 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

The following is from the 1.0-7667/README.txt:
=========================
Below are the legacy GPUs that are no longer supported in the unified driver.
These GPUs will continue to be maintained through the special legacy NVIDIA
GPU driver releases.

    NVIDIA chip name                   Device PCI ID
    -------------------------------    -------------------------------
    RIVA TNT                           0x0020
    RIVA TNT2/TNT2 Pro                 0x0028
    RIVA TNT2 Ultra                    0x0029
===========================

The same list is in the 7664 Readme.txt.  The 7174 lists TNT2 as supported.  
<shrug>  So it goes.
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