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List:       gentoo-amd64
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-amd64] NVIDIA 100.14.19 + xorg-server
From:       B Vance <anonymous.pseudonym.88 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2007-12-22 21:49:05
Message-ID: 1198360145.8416.7.camel () ShadowAerie
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On Sat, 2007-12-22 at 16:28 -0500, Drake Donahue wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "B Vance" <anonymous.pseudonym.88@gmail.com>
> To: <gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org>
> Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2007 9:23 AM
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] NVIDIA 100.14.19 + xorg-server 1.4.0.90+xorg-x11 
> 7.3 = blackscreen after every restart
> 
> 
> > After the system restarts, it shows [1] nvidia * [2] xorg-x11.  I'm
> > hoping that the asterix by nvidia indicates that it isn't dropping the
> > opengl setting from nvidia that is causing this.
> >
> > B Vance
> 
> Apologies for my top posting earlier.
> 
> You might try finding and renaming every instance of xorg.conf on your 
> machine to something else and then reboot the machine. If no xorg.conf 
> exists, the current X will run through its own script (not named xorg.conf) 
> and usually automagically produce a working windowed environment (or fail). 
> I believe that if you have an old xorg.conf, emerge nvidia-drivers will edit 
> it retaining part, deleting part, and adding part. If this is correct the 
> possibility exists that the edited xorg.conf will have internal 
> inconsistencies.
> 
> BTW, being a slob I use the terms terminal, console, and command line 
> interface pretty much interchangeably (sorry again). I presume you boot 
> directly to a windowed environment (desktop) when all goes well. And that 
> currently the boot gets to the point of trying to start X, fails, and drops 
> you to a command line prompt at which you login and then type: emerge 
> nvidia-drivers, after the emerge nvidia-drivers, you type some form of a 
> 'startx' or 'start a display manager command' which then works to take you 
> to a desktop. If these assumptions are coreect, an eselect opengl list after 
> the crash and before the emerge nvidia-drivers could be informative. After 
> emerge nvidia-drivers the list should be as you found it and it should still 
> be that way for the next start of X.
> 
> > On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 18:00 -0500, Drake Donahue wrote:
> >> After a failure and while in console, what output does:
> >>       eselect opengl list
> >> give?
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message ----- 
> >> From: "B Vance" <anonymous.pseudonym.88@gmail.com>
> >> To: <gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org>
> >> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 4:41 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] NVIDIA 100.14.19 + xorg-server 1.4.0.90
> >> +xorg-x11 7.3 = blackscreen after every restart
> >>
> >>
> >> > The only version that I haven't tried it with is Nvidia-drivers
> >> > 100.14.23, I try to avoid hard masked ebuilds if at all possible.  The
> >> > last driver that worked "properly" was 1.0.9639, with the previous
> >> > stable ABI of xorg-server.
> >> >
> >> > I'm assuming that the 169.04 you're referring to is  Nvidia-settings.
> >> > I haven't tried the masked version yet.  Would that have this kind of
> >> > effect?  I thought it just modified xorg.conf if you ran it.
> >> >
> >> > Thanks for the info and assistance.
> >> >
> >> > B. Vance
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 22:06 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> >> >> Hi,
> >> >>
> >> >> what about 169.04 or the latest releasse .07?
> >> >
> >> > -- 
> >> > gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list
> >> >
> >>
> >
> > -- 
> > gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list
> > 
> 
The laptop boots into the CLI, not the graphical logon.  I'm guessing
that the 169.04 that was referred to earlier was the Nvidia drivers from
the webpage.  I downloaded them and have now managed to start gdm
successfully after a restart, 3 times.  Nvidia 169.07 appears to solve
the problem.  My apologies to Volker for misunderstanding what he was
saying.  As you was surmised, after the screenfreeze, the eselect still
had nvidia selected.  I'm guessing that the nvidia-drivers-100.14.19
ebuild was the problem.

Thank you all for your assistance in this, and apologies for
top-posting.  Seasons greetings to all.

B Vance

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