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[196.210.126.115]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id hl6sm9848685wib.2.2013.05.26.02.42.02 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sun, 26 May 2013 02:42:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <51A1D8BF.6000701@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 11:41:19 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130518 Thunderbird/17.0.6 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and KDE problem References: <51A1D201.8040008@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <51A1D201.8040008@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0234feb7-a38e-41d5-9890-8f7f6cec82c9 X-Archives-Hash: fee6025a68e768be20ccf6ad19e79440 On 26/05/2013 11:12, Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I been letting portage upgrade nvidia drivers as usual. Thing is, the > last two or three drivers seems to cause a issue. First, versions that > cause the issue: > > =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-319.12 > =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-319.17 > =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-319.23 > > I'm currently using this one which works fine: > > x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-313.30 > > This is KDE info: > > [IP-] [ ] kde-base/kdelibs-4.10.3-r2 > > Video card info: > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT216 [GeForce GT > 220] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) > Subsystem: NVIDIA Corporation Device 069a > Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18 > Memory at fb000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] > Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] > Memory at de000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M] > I/O ports at ef00 [size=128] > [virtual] Expansion ROM at d0000000 [disabled] [size=512K] > Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 3 > Capabilities: [68] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ > Capabilities: [78] Express Endpoint, MSI 00 > Capabilities: [b4] Vendor Specific Information: Len=14 > Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel > Capabilities: [128] Power Budgeting > Capabilities: [600] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 > Len=024 > Kernel driver in use: nvidia > Kernel modules: nvidia > > > The problem. After I am logged into KDE for a good while, like several > hours to maybe a day or so, the kicker thingy at the bottom locks up > tight. I can't switch desktops, clock stops working, can't click the K > menu thingy either. Everything in the kicker thingy is dead as a door > nail. I can switch desktops with the keyboard and everything else works > in KDE just fine. I can also switch to a console too. Killing X and > restarting it fixes it, xdm restart in my case. I don't have to reload > drivers or restart the system. I do go back and downgrade the drivers > after testing it. > > So, is this a nvidia bug, KDE bug or is it something else? Since it > works when I go back a version of nvidia, it looks like nvidia. Think > is, it only affects KDE and nothing else. Is it possible that my card > is not supposed to use the 319.* series of drivers? The versions that > don't work are all 319.* series. I get a similar issue, my video card is an ATI and I use the radeon drivers. Same symptom as you - plasma stops updating it's widgets like clocks and stops responding to the mouse. Keyboard works. In my case, it's usually linked to nfs and smb mounts that went away (eg, if I forget to umount my NFS media server at home and go to work) which indicates a blocking issue somehow. I've read many reports on the internet that krunner is somehow involved, so that might be a good starting point for investigation. krunner is the thing you get in KDE when typing Alt-F2 -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com