From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 292D9198005 for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 10:30:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A8BF221C0E4; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 10:29:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eu1sys200aog119.obsmtp.com (eu1sys200aog119.obsmtp.com [207.126.144.147]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D0AFD21C0DC for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 10:29:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from beta.dmz-eu.st.com ([164.129.1.35]) (using TLSv1) by eu1sys200aob119.postini.com ([207.126.147.11]) with SMTP ID DSNKUSdIcfR8JDwKAvkBe9BhCduTtIxHCtKK@postini.com; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 10:29:06 UTC Received: from zeta.dmz-eu.st.com (zeta.dmz-eu.st.com [164.129.230.9]) by beta.dmz-eu.st.com (STMicroelectronics) with ESMTP id 1AEA9151 for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 10:29:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: from Webmail-eu.st.com (safex1hubcas3.st.com [10.75.90.18]) by zeta.dmz-eu.st.com (STMicroelectronics) with ESMTP id F238A47DA for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 10:29:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from SAFEX1MAIL4.st.com ([10.75.90.10]) by SAFEX1HUBCAS3.st.com ([10.75.90.18]) with mapi; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:29:04 +0100 From: Raffaele BELARDI To: "gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org" Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:28:12 +0100 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia driver - blank screen not even console display Thread-Topic: [gentoo-user] Nvidia driver - blank screen not even console display Thread-Index: Ac4Q53AAzZNxYR7/TgyY8M+G/aB5oA== Message-ID: <5127483C.6090309@st.com> References: <20130222073458.GA9266@syscon7.inet> <20130222082410.GA9042@syscon7.inet> <51272E0D.7020607@gmail.com> <20130222090737.GC15229@syscon7.inet> <20130222092125.GA3889@syscon7.inet> <20130222093927.GC8874@syscon7.inet> <51273F3B.80904@st.com> <20130222101545.GE8874@syscon7.inet> In-Reply-To: <20130222101545.GE8874@syscon7.inet> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:18.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/18.0 SeaMonkey/2.15.2 x-enigmail-version: 1.5 acceptlanguage: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Archives-Salt: 3fd8463b-ad8a-4d53-b2d7-f6e897477cef X-Archives-Hash: 7f9767d76f4ebabed33fa2909ba2b4c7 On 02/22/2013 11:15 AM, Joseph wrote: > On 02/22/13 10:49, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: >> On 02/22/2013 10:39 AM, Joseph wrote: >>> In addition I get the flooring errors in Xorg.0.log >>> >>> cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE >>> (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. >>> [ 288.401] Initializing built-in extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER >>> [ 313.863] (EE) >>> [ 313.863] (EE) Backtrace: >>> [ 313.863] (EE) 0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x36) [0x5979d6] >>> [ 313.863] (EE) 1: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x19b8c9) [0x59b8c9] >>> [ 313.863] (EE) 2: /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x7fdb5cc20000+0x10810) [0= x7fdb5cc30810] >>> [ 313.863] (EE) 3: /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x7fdb5b880000+0x136284) [0x7fdb= 5b9b6284] >>> [ 313.863] (EE) 4: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so (0x7= fdb56fd8000+0x116fd3) [0x7fdb570eefd3] >> >> Did you also update the Nvidia driver when you updated the system? Maybe >> the new Nvidia driver does not support your graphic board. >> >> I have a GeForce GT 520 box where I am stuck with nvidia-drivers-295.20 >> because newer drivers segfault (even though officially they should >> support the GT520). >> >> raffaele >=20 > According to lspic I have: > VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF116 [GeForce GTS 450] (= rev a1) >=20 > So are you saying I should downgrade to 295.20? >=20 I don't know, but it might be worth a try. What was the last working version of nvidia-drivers that you had? You could try to downgrade to that one. raffaele=