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 E73FE138A1F for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2014 13:12:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BAC6CE0AC6; Wed, 16 Apr 2014 13:11:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-la0-f43.google.com (mail-la0-f43.google.com [209.85.215.43]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8B02FE0AA3 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2014 13:11:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-la0-f43.google.com with SMTP id e16so8215264lan.30 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2014 06:11:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=uvLWRaGYlFQT2IPrpgHZBsA2CDZgC6+zCLxCg3vRGbc=; b=Qb3NtOjUtKTUzTfK4AEucr8I9891TcFrWLCrCtcQFx0aV57QRDxZAx0JB4ht3MrhPP XHBEz3z26b5qhSs6dmZSroEkRixjPa1PJBOZAtkGDW/Djc9z2eW5rKxTUzhFfNKIyOGc RGcnNIlFgSy5Iju0YvX7dSbAPBTwqESIV2/e44Aq08qGgGa7gXS/M9PdALI0AuG0NTmB DO4fDPQ4+H6jrFK6AD0NDRcPXcxv1RFETS5L/1vOfWO+9Q8OKLQKE63YWBdDSszZ5oyC PwEOjXeo0qtW060m9iuhsmwc3oUNpJrAslVpxOJ8Y4oYAGsrnMjYsrYKXz15M4NfQ8aF 229Q== X-Received: by 10.112.50.194 with SMTP id e2mr2850132lbo.4.1397653916650; Wed, 16 Apr 2014 06:11:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (213-154-212-42.static.vega-ua.net. [213.154.212.42]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id el7sm22096243lac.10.2014.04.16.06.11.55 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 16 Apr 2014 06:11:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <534E821E.4050706@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 16:14:06 +0300 From: Alexander Kapshuk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 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] re: nVidia GeForce 210 and nvidia-drivers-334.21-r3 References: <534BC8D7.3000906@gmail.com> <534C88D7.1040005@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <534C88D7.1040005@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 719a9889-0ae1-4722-8523-d2bb6de253cc X-Archives-Hash: f420c644dd4b5faacd1fa48b8697f223 On 04/15/2014 04:18 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 04/14/2014 07:39 AM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: >> I've had to replace my GPU today. Prior to attempting to start X with >> the new GPU in, I thought I'd pull in the latest updates and reboot the >> system. X wouldn't start as a result. I've googled for answers, but >> haven't found a solution so far. > Nvidia dropped support for the GeForce 210 in their 334 series. It's > still there in the 331 series, though, if you want to downgrade. > > Same thing happened to me a while ago with my old 7800GT. I don't have > any reason to buy a new GPU, so I switched to nouveau. > > Reference: http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html (pick a version, and > hit "Supported Products"). > > > Thanks for your response. Apologies for the delay in replying. After googling a bit more I did figure that the problem was with the proprietary driver I was using. I did try downgrading to some of these drivers, but to no avail, unless I did something wrong in the process: /usr/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers/nvidia-drivers-304.121.ebuild /usr/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers/nvidia-drivers-331.49-r3.ebuild /usr/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers/nvidia-drivers-331.49.ebuild /usr/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers/nvidia-drivers-331.67.ebuild What I ended up doing was using the x11-drivers/xf86-video-nouveau-1.0.10 driver. I set these up in my kernel .config: CONFIG_DRM_NOUVEAU=y CONFIG_NOUVEAU_DEBUG=5 CONFIG_NOUVEAU_DEBUG_DEFAULT=3 CONFIG_DRM_NOUVEAU_BACKLIGHT=y Enabled nouveau and disabled nvidia in make.conf: egrep 'nvidia|nouveau' /etc/portage/make.conf USE="$USE -nvidia consolekit pam policykit udisks upower acpi lm_sensors" VIDEO_CARDS="nouveau" And ran: emerge --ask --changed-use --deep @world The new driver's been running OK so far. Playing videos via vlc/mplayer seems to run smooth. Some youtube videos are a bit choppy, and/or delayed though. Not sure if it's the nouveau driver to blame or the fact that I've got 1 Gb of RAM onboard. Should I have enabled the nouveau USE flag globally in make.conf like I previously did for nvidia, or is that not necessary? If there is something else I should be doing, or something I overlooked, I'd appreciate anyone letting me know. Thanks.