From: walt <w41ter@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: nouveau loads but freezes later, nvidia won't load
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:05:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <i9l86k$9ui$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi==G-U=V43r58+UJWxQJ0fo+4NXcVLBUV69wzh4@mail.gmail.com>
On 10/19/2010 10:32 AM, Grant wrote:
> I've been using the nouveau video driver for a while, but lately video
> has been freezing with X at 100% CPU and the only way out seems to be
> ssh'ing in and rebooting.
Not that it will help with your bug, but I'm curious to know what video
hardware you're using. I had the same problem with my ancient nv34 card,
which got fixed a few weeks ago in Linus's git kernel.
OTOH, I've seen the same sort of freeze reported in the nouveau mailing
list for other nvidia chips, so YMMV. Video drivers all seem to support
a dozen different chips from the same manufacturer, which introduces some
random noise into the bug reports.
> I tried to switch to the nvidia driver but X won't load and Xorg.0.log
> says it can't find a CorePointer device...
Not sure why the nvidia driver would be related to that, unless maybe
you're using a different xorg.conf for nvidia.
Unless you have some weird pointing devices, you should no longer need
any input section in xorg.conf for either keyboard or mouse -- delete any
references to keyboard or mouse, and install the xf86-input-evdev package.
Your X server should find and use the evdev driver automatically, without
any help from xorg.conf.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-19 23:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-19 17:32 [gentoo-user] nouveau loads but freezes later, nvidia won't load Grant
2010-10-19 23:05 ` walt [this message]
2010-10-20 19:56 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant
2010-10-20 23:57 ` walt
2010-10-21 0:12 ` Grant
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