[gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.5 and nvidia-drivers

[gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.5 and nvidia-drivers

[Steve Brenneis]

Apparently KDE 3.5.5 and the openGL portion of the nvidia-drivers 
package don't get along too well.

I have a desktop and a laptop with nVidia cards. The desktop is an 
AMD-64 machine, but Gentoo is built on it using the athlon-xp 
architecture. The laptop is a Pentium 4.

On the AMD system, I had to select the xorg-x11 opengl libraries to get 
kdesktop and kdeartwork-kscreensaver to build. Actually, at first, I 
just set the use flags on kscreensaver and kdeartwork-kscreensaver to 
-opengl, but then Control Center crashes every time I try to configure 
the screensaver. There is no openGL use flag for kdesktop, so I had to 
use the xorg-x11 (mesa, I assume) openGL libraries just to get it to 
build. The error was unresolved symbols with names like 
"_nv001215[something]" At the moment, I am unable to use the nVidia 
openGL drivers that come with the nvidia-drivers package on the desktop.

On the laptop, after solving the problems with trying to build kde-3.5.5 
with gcc-4.1 (emerge -ae world), kdesktop crashes when KDE is started 
from kdm. However, if I shut down xdm and run startx from the command 
line, KDE starts up and I get a desktop, but a number of KDE 
applications crash when I try to run them (KCrash can't seem to find 
kdeinit). Once again, kscreensaver crashes unless I set the openGL 
libraries to xorg-x11.

The only thing I have found by searching the web and the Gentoo forums 
about this was the suggestion to use the mesa openGL libraries to build 
kscreensaver. That reference suggested changing back to the nVidia 
libraries after building, but I can't get kscreensaver to stay alive if 
I do that. I would expect that to be the case anyway.

Any ideas?
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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.5 and nvidia-drivers

[Richard Fish]

On 11/22/06, Steve Brenneis <sbrenneis@surry.net> wrote:
> Apparently KDE 3.5.5 and the openGL portion of the nvidia-drivers
> package don't get along too well.

I'm using KDE 3.5.5 and nvidia drivers with openGL support just fine,
without any crashing etc, on both my laptop and desktop.

You might have to switch to xorg-x11 when building some things
(although most of that should happen automatically now), but you
should definitely be able to switch back to nvidia after the build
completes.

Can you tell us more about your systems?  emerge --info would be a
good start, but also what version of nvidia-drivers and xorg-x11 are
you using?  Does revdep-rebuild -p report anything needing to be
rebuilt?

-Richard
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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.5 and nvidia-drivers

[Dale]

Richard Fish wrote:
> On 11/22/06, Steve Brenneis <sbrenneis@surry.net> wrote:
>> Apparently KDE 3.5.5 and the openGL portion of the nvidia-drivers
>> package don't get along too well.
>
> I'm using KDE 3.5.5 and nvidia drivers with openGL support just fine,
> without any crashing etc, on both my laptop and desktop.
>
> You might have to switch to xorg-x11 when building some things
> (although most of that should happen automatically now), but you
> should definitely be able to switch back to nvidia after the build
> completes.
>
> Can you tell us more about your systems?  emerge --info would be a
> good start, but also what version of nvidia-drivers and xorg-x11 are
> you using?  Does revdep-rebuild -p report anything needing to be
> rebuilt?
>
> -Richard

I had trouble with this when I upgraded too.  The trouble I had was
getting it to switch opengl to nvidia and staying switched.  I think I
had to re-emerge all the KDE packages to get it to work right. 
Actually, I did a emerge -ev world to do this.  It was during all the
KDE compile that it started working right.

Maybe that will narrow it down a bit if you can just recompile KDE,
maybe even the xorg stuff.

Dale

:-)  :-)  :-)
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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.5 and nvidia-drivers

[Steve Brenneis]

Richard Fish wrote:
> On 11/22/06, Steve Brenneis <sbrenneis@surry.net> wrote:
>> Apparently KDE 3.5.5 and the openGL portion of the nvidia-drivers
>> package don't get along too well.
>
> I'm using KDE 3.5.5 and nvidia drivers with openGL support just fine,
> without any crashing etc, on both my laptop and desktop.
>
> You might have to switch to xorg-x11 when building some things
> (although most of that should happen automatically now), but you
> should definitely be able to switch back to nvidia after the build
> completes.
>
> Can you tell us more about your systems?  emerge --info would be a
> good start, but also what version of nvidia-drivers and xorg-x11 are
> you using?  Does revdep-rebuild -p report anything needing to be
> rebuilt?
>
> -Richard
revdep-rebuild on both systems shows no broken binaries. I have done 
another emerge -e world and nothing has changed.

Here is the emerge --info for the laptop:

Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6
Portage 2.1.1-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, 
glibc-2.4-r4, 2.6.18-gentoo-r2 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.18-gentoo-r2 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4     CPU 
2.66GHz
Last Sync: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 08:50:02 +0000
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-java/java-config: [Not Present]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2, 2.4.3-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.60
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config 
/usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config 
/usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb 
/usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild 
/etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig collision-protect distlocks metadata-transfer 
sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ 
http://mirror.phy.olemiss.edu/mirror/gentoo"
LC_ALL="en_US.utf8"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times 
--compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats 
--timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' 
--exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://dmzhost/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X alsa arts berkdb bitmap-fonts cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt 
cups dbus dlloader dri dvd dvdr eds elibc_glibc emboss encode esd fam 
firefox fortran gdbm gif gpm gstreamer hal iconv input_devices_keyboard 
input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde kernel_linux ldap libg++ mad 
mikmod mmx mmxext mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia ogg opengl 
oss pam pcre perl png ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline 
reflection sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl symlink tcpd truetype 
truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userland_GNU video_cards_fbdev 
video_cards_nvidia video_cards_vesa vorbis win32codecs xml xorg xv zlib"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LDFLAGS, 
LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

Everything seems to build and link fine on the laptop and I can use the 
nVidia openGL drivers on it. The only thing I can't do is start KDE from 
KDM. I think that probably has nothing to do with openGL any more. I 
re-emerged kdesktop with debug, but I don't know where to look for the 
debug output.


Here is the emerge --info for the desktop:

Portage 2.1.1-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-3.4.6, 
glibc-2.4-r4, 2.6.18-gentoo-r2 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.18-gentoo-r2 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6
Last Sync: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 08:50:02 +0000
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-java/java-config: 1.2.11-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5, 2.4.3-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.60
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config 
/usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config 
/usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild 
/etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig collision-protect distlocks fixpackages 
metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ 
http://mirror.phy.olemiss.edu/mirror/gentoo"
LC_ALL="en_US.utf8"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times 
--compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats 
--timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' 
--exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://dmzhost/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dfx X alsa arts berkdb bitmap-fonts cairo cdr cli cracklib 
crypt cups dbus dlloader dri dvd dvdr eds elibc_glibc emboss encode esd 
fam firefox fortran gdbm gif gpm gstreamer hal iconv 
input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde 
kernel_linux ldap libg++ mad mikmod mmx mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl 
nptlonly nvidia ogg opengl oss pam pcre perl png ppds pppd python qt qt3 
qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl 
symlink tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode 
userland_GNU video_cards_fbdev video_cards_nvidia video_cards_vesa 
vorbis win32codecs xml xorg xv zlib"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LDFLAGS, 
LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

Everything seems to work fine on the desktop as long as I use only the 
mesa openGL libraries.

Both systems are using nvidia-drivers-1.0.8776 and xorg-x11-7.1.

Thanks
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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.5 and nvidia-drivers

[Philip Webb]

061122 Steve Brenneis wrote:
> Apparently KDE 3.5.5 and the openGL portion of the nvidia-drivers 
> don't get along too well.

No problem here with Nvidia-drivers 1.0.8776 & '-march=athlon-xp'.
I don't use Kdm or Kscreensaver: I use 'startx' & Xscreensaver 5.01 .

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