From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Nouveau driver turns off video when I start X
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:49:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK2H+ee5pZfUCMC_gnvY8U0O+DxXnA7yVbPpnHOFzLaC2RoUEg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120419012740.GA1953@waltdnes.org>
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 05:21:28PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote
>> Proprietary drivers work fine with 3.2.1. Haven't tried 3.2.12.
>
> The proprietary driver partly works. Static images (jpeg/gif/png/etc)
> are OK. 1080p HD Flash videos play fullscreen without stuttering. But
> colours are way off on hue. Faces are blue (no, this wasn't the "Avatar"
> trailer <G>). Mplayer totally locks up the machine as soon as I start
> it. I have to resort to Magic-Sysrq to bail out without forcing a major
> fsck. Here are the card details from "lspci -v"...
Presumably this all works perfectly with the closed source driver?
I've never seen problems like these on my machine which almost all run
NVidia chips. I haven't tried this Open Source in years myself.
- Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-19 1:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-18 20:42 [gentoo-user] Nouveau driver turns off video when I start X Walter Dnes
2012-04-18 21:21 ` Michael Mol
2012-04-19 1:27 ` Walter Dnes
2012-04-19 1:49 ` Mark Knecht [this message]
2012-04-19 10:44 ` Walter Dnes
2012-04-19 13:03 ` Mark Knecht
2012-04-19 2:06 ` Michael Mol
2012-04-19 12:31 ` Walter Dnes
2012-04-20 0:49 ` Walter Dnes
2012-04-20 11:25 ` Dale
2012-04-19 2:47 ` Alecks Gates
2012-04-19 2:55 ` Michael Mol
2012-04-19 12:23 ` Walter Dnes
2012-04-19 20:44 ` Per-Erik Westerberg
2012-04-19 1:32 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2012-04-19 1:52 ` Michael Mol
2012-04-20 6:39 ` [gentoo-user] SOLVED: I switched to the Nvidia video driver Walter Dnes
2012-04-20 7:09 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2012-04-20 11:31 ` Dale
2012-04-20 15:54 ` Walter Dnes
2012-04-26 15:10 ` [gentoo-user] " Alecks Gates
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