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 1SPpuj-0004cB-G5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 03 May 2012 06:53:22 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 33138E05A4; Thu, 3 May 2012 06:53:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 664FFE057F for ; Thu, 3 May 2012 06:51:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F04F61B402A for ; Thu, 3 May 2012 06:51:35 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.26 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.26 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.250, BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=no 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 XkOoCpwn7a9K for ; Thu, 3 May 2012 06:51:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 40C351B4021 for ; Thu, 3 May 2012 06:51:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SPpsp-0003xU-E4 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 03 May 2012 08:51:23 +0200 Received: from athedsl-355189.home.otenet.gr ([85.72.243.19]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 03 May 2012 08:51:23 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-355189.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 03 May 2012 08:51:23 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: X segfault with nvidia-drivers-295.40 on GT520 Date: Thu, 03 May 2012 09:50:52 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <4FA226D1.10302@st.com> 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-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-355189.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120430 Thunderbird/12.0.1 In-Reply-To: <4FA226D1.10302@st.com> X-Archives-Salt: 98f6d609-cc43-4e6c-9ed9-512cca0359b5 X-Archives-Hash: c19d93fcb4eb3ae020814494076fdd9e On 03/05/12 09:39, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: > One month ago I switched to an Nvidia-based (ASUS GT520, PCI-e) video > card on an ~amd64 box. I immediately had problems with the latest Nvidia > driver causing a segfault when X started (text console is ok) so I > switched to 295.20-r1 and everything was fine. > > But I forgot to mask 295.40 and during yesterday's update it got pulled > in again, with the same segfault behaviour when starting X. > > I tried to manually downgrade nvidia-drivers but now glibc is upgraded > to 2.15-r1 and nvidia-drivers-295.20-r1 depends on an older glibc > (2.14.1-r3, I think). Emerge refuses to downgrade glibc so I am stuck. > > Since it is a mythtv box I want to stay away from nouveau. No problem > myself with it but most of the mythtv development is around proprietary > nvidia drivers. > > What other options do I have? > Is everybody running nvidia-drivers-295.40 without problems? No problems here, but you can try 302.07 (I run those since yesterday.) The usual way: copy the ebuild in your local overlay and rename it to nvidia-drivers-302.07.ebuild, then do a digest. Same for nvidia-settings, but edit it and remove the patches.