* Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia-drivers stopped working
@ 2007-08-06 2:14 99% ` Ernie Schroder
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From: Ernie Schroder @ 2007-08-06 2:14 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On Sunday 05 August 2007, a tiny voice compelled Volker Armin Hemmann to
write:
> On Sonntag, 5. August 2007, Ernie Schroder wrote:
> > On Sunday 05 August 2007, a tiny voice compelled Volker Armin Hemmann to
> >
> > write:
> > > On Sonntag, 5. August 2007, Ernie Schroder wrote:
> > > > A few days ago I ran my updates and nvidia-settings was updated to
> > > > 1.0.20070302 All was good until last night. I openen konqueror to
> > > > browse my home dir and I got a mime-type error and no files
> > > > displayed. Trying to do konqueror /home/ernie gave me errors that I
> > > > can't quote but mime types was mentioned again. Assuming that
> > > > something was just hung up I did top which showed X using 95% cpu
> > > > Killing java_vm, firefox, kmail and any suspected cpu hogs had no
> > > > effect so I killed X and attempted to restart it.
> > >
> > > 'suspected'? ps aux, and/or (h)top should show you the hog.
> >
> > only "X" showed high cpu usage. No associated apps were above what I'm
> > used to seeing.
> >
> > > > nvidia-drivers is currently at 100.14.09. I need advice getting this
> > > > straight. Is there a file where nvidia-settings keeps config
> > >
> > > ~/.nvidia-settings-rc
> >
> > showed the file was generated back in 2004 and hasn't been modified since
> > 7/2/04
>
> so what? maybe the latest nvidia-settings does not like the old file? You
> can just move it someone and try...
>
> > > > data other
> > > > than xorg.conf? should I update to the masked
> > > > nvidia-drivers-100.14.11 ?
> > >
> > > yes.
> >
> > NO! The newer drivers build but warn of MTRR support lacking on my card.
>
> and you have checked that you have mtrr support in the kernel?
first thing
>
> > Funny I thought that it was there. It's a gforce4 ti 4200.
> > I had to revert to nvidia-drivers-1.0.9639. I guess the drivers got
> > updated in a previous update and I missed the warnings. Funny it worked
> > for over a week.
>
> emm, you might want to look up about 'legacy drivers' and 'supported
> cards'.
There you go. For my card I have to stick with the 1.0.96xx series drivers.
might be time to look at building a new box.
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Regards, Ernie
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