public inbox for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: gottlieb@nyu.edu
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with hi-res display and nouveau driver on *one* system
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 20:09:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8761la35fn.fsf@nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADPrc80rqC-hTn5xVw1g=tvNYfdeUhmPFoJbC6YbjbowYvXf=A@mail.gmail.com> ("Canek \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Pel\=C3\=A1ez_Vald\=C3\=A9s\=22's\?\= message of "Sun, 11 May 2014 19:38:57 -0500")

On Sun, May 11 2014, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:

> On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 7:12 PM,  <gottlieb@nyu.edu> wrote:
>> This helped considerably.  No grey bands; instead gdm puts up its
>> screensaver and tells us the (correct) time.  Moving the mouse moves the
>> pointer and clicking on the upper right button shows the volume etc.
>
> Allan, what do you have in your VIDEO_CARDS variable? It's usually
> defined in /etc/portage/make.conf. If you don't have it, try to set it
> up to nouveau:
>
> VIDEO_CARDS="nouveau"

Yes I set VIDEO_CARDS="nouveau" right at the beginning

> Also, what's the output of "equery l -if x11-drivers/"?

[IP-] [  ] x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.8.2:0
[IP-] [  ] x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard-1.7.0:0
[IP-] [  ] x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse-1.9.0:0
[IP-] [  ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-nouveau-1.0.10:0
[IP-] [  ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-nv-2.1.20-r1:0

I had set INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" right at the beginning and ran
emerge --changed-use --update --keep-going world
several times.  
emerge --depclean --ask --ignore-default-opts
only listed xf86-input-mouse.  But when I specifically tried
emerge   --depclean xf86-input-keyboard
emerge   --depclean xf86-video-nv
They were found and now they are gone (so this explains why I found the
nv driver to delete manually).

Anyway I depcleaned the unneeded drivers and now eix -I xf86-
shows only evdev and nouveau as desired.

However the problem remains (screensaver shows time and won't go away).

Thanks for the help,
allan

PS emerge --changed-use --update --keep-going world
shows nothing



  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-13  0:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-11 16:43 [gentoo-user] trouble with hi-res display and nouveau driver on *one* system gottlieb
2014-05-11 16:50 ` the
2014-05-11 20:10 ` Walter Dnes
2014-05-12  0:12   ` gottlieb
2014-05-12  0:38     ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2014-05-13  0:09       ` gottlieb [this message]
2014-05-12  8:32     ` Neil Bothwick
2014-05-13  0:20       ` gottlieb
2014-05-13  0:30         ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2014-05-13  2:03           ` gottlieb
2014-05-12  9:16     ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2014-05-13  0:21       ` gottlieb
2014-05-13  0:31         ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2014-05-13  2:17           ` gottlieb

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=8761la35fn.fsf@nyu.edu \
    --to=gottlieb@nyu.edu \
    --cc=gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox