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 CB3051381FA for ; Mon, 12 May 2014 00:39:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DFE42E0A40; Mon, 12 May 2014 00:39:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-la0-f45.google.com (mail-la0-f45.google.com [209.85.215.45]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ABA8BE0943 for ; Mon, 12 May 2014 00:39:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-la0-f45.google.com with SMTP id gl10so1384402lab.4 for ; Sun, 11 May 2014 17:39:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=pGUhBp/fyMjJtJhR+xna72LupLHi3xx2IVSxYe4iDMI=; b=KkhxIIslTjSeAE1Qlvoscm20SAZe4SEP3iy/8V7jQ67TaiBtFMwvoxBqADAH+HE/VY u1rY1xBpg+Ory5lmF2wbiaYfsZjAIjOcCQCpKgDlWX4PDKOv+S0/sE/dn7IeVertQ4vR WH4udnpz/aSsYEeiXKHhqtz0ixE3m5DmzJeoEV2mdeEWXI5K2+Wuz5c0waoW95lZ2lqA XKWwYDX4RmdB11zPohNKnYg7Z8pOw0sD+7PiY9jpx9Vl8AXrQV1ZESJ/RbsIR7CUo3N4 GorQI4Su6vW7d/b9tm4+5srjuLfkSomTXUGnll4emn8A2fZ1DgKRmNdDYJdC4WYRfjAT A/eg== X-Received: by 10.112.120.207 with SMTP id le15mr164719lbb.45.1399855158053; Sun, 11 May 2014 17:39:18 -0700 (PDT) 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 Received: by 10.114.170.166 with HTTP; Sun, 11 May 2014 17:38:57 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87mwendfcp.fsf@nyu.edu> References: <87oaz4e04w.fsf@nyu.edu> <20140511201030.GA4698@waltdnes.org> <87mwendfcp.fsf@nyu.edu> From: =?UTF-8?B?Q2FuZWsgUGVsw6FleiBWYWxkw6lz?= Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 19:38:57 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with hi-res display and nouveau driver on *one* system To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 4be88bbd-34e0-406a-82b0-84c9c752df57 X-Archives-Hash: 381c4907f49f56cb6117c3638d6b76ed On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 7:12 PM, wrote: > On Sun, May 11 2014, Walter Dnes wrote [snip]: >> Plan B) if Plan A fails, manually remove >> /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/nv_drv.so That's a really bad idea. If the driver is there, and Allan didn't rememeber being the one that put it, something else did, and it will probably do it again. > 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=3D"nouveau" Also, what's the output of "equery l -if x11-drivers/"? Regards. --=20 Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias Universidad Nacional Aut=C3=B3noma de M=C3=A9xico