From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (unknown [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FE281381FA for ; Mon, 12 May 2014 00:13:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 906E3E0A7F; Mon, 12 May 2014 00:13:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx2.cims.nyu.edu (MX2.CIMS.NYU.EDU [128.122.49.96]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 85B2FE095D for ; Mon, 12 May 2014 00:13:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu (smtp.cs.nyu.edu [128.122.49.97]) by mx2.cims.nyu.edu (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s4C0CwTE000204 for ; Sun, 11 May 2014 20:12:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from newlap-wireless.localdomain (ool-182de8a5.dyn.optonline.net [24.45.232.165]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.nyu.edu (8.14.3/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s4C0CsK4000200 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sun, 11 May 2014 20:12:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: by newlap-wireless.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 32F52A711C; Sun, 11 May 2014 20:12:54 -0400 (EDT) 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 References: <87oaz4e04w.fsf@nyu.edu> <20140511201030.GA4698@waltdnes.org> Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 20:12:54 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20140511201030.GA4698@waltdnes.org> (Walter Dnes's message of "Sun, 11 May 2014 16:10:30 -0400") Message-ID: <87mwendfcp.fsf@nyu.edu> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) 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 Content-Type: text/plain X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.1 (mx2.cims.nyu.edu [128.122.49.96]); Sun, 11 May 2014 20:12:58 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97.4 at mx2 X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Score: -2.551 () BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.73 on 128.122.49.96 X-Archives-Salt: c22ebf57-33aa-4946-9a36-1796d3279630 X-Archives-Hash: cedc4c1fc2c2b42e5a3cc3b0c4fc97f0 On Sun, May 11 2014, Walter Dnes wrote: > I copied the two messages, and compared them side-by-each in xterms. I had done exactly that prior to posting > When X realizes that you have an Nvidia card, and no xorg.conf, it sets > up a list of all drivers that could possibly work with your card, and > goes around probing, trying to find them... > > The NG version reports... > > [ 20.299] (II) LoadModule: "nouveau" > [ 20.314] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/nouveau_drv.so > [ 20.537] (II) LoadModule: "nv" > [ 20.537] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/nv_drv.so > [ 20.607] (II) Module nv: vendor="X.Org Foundation" > > ***IT'S LOADING BOTH NOUVEAU AND NV (NVIDIA BINARY BLOB) DRIVERS***. I am embarrassed to report that I missed that (perhaps nv is the nv nvidia; but in any case it is loading two drivers, which is bad). Thank you very much for this catch > Plan A) unmerge the Nvidia binary drivers I had done that initially > Plan B) if Plan A fails, manually remove > /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/nv_drv.so 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. > - > Walter Dnes > I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications I realize you don't use gdm/gnome. But perhaps someone has seen the following problem. To release the screensaver, the current gnome wants you to press mouse button1 and move the mouse up (as with phones and tablets). This fails to end the screensaver, instead the pointer just moves (as though the mouse button wasn't pressed). I tried two mice with the same result. I changed DISPLAYMANAGER to xdm in /etc/conf.d/xdm and restarted xdm (this machine has not yet been converted to systemd). I could enter username and password, but then the login screen simply reappeared. This occurred for both root and my normal user. Thank you again walter. allan