From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1P8LFP-0004LK-6j for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 23:05:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 824BDE07AB; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 23:05:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6759AE07AB for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 23:05:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 192EE1B4058 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 23:05:17 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.899 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.899 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.300, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id sMVNtZCo5z+4 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 23:05:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 930411B400C for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 23:05:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P8LEv-0001Ln-7k for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 01:05:05 +0200 Received: from adsl-69-234-193-186.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.193.186]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 01:05:05 +0200 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-193-186.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 01:05:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: nouveau loads but freezes later, nvidia won't load Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:05:00 -0700 Message-ID: References: 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; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-193-186.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101019 Thunderbird/3.3a1pre In-Reply-To: X-Archives-Salt: c4f47536-ae2a-4477-addd-ea981d5db5ee X-Archives-Hash: ed16b4f856e80f061ccb9c2e3dddcffb 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.