DAle, PLEASE look at bullet item #3 in this NVidia release: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-amd64-275.09.07-driver.html
<QUOTE> Fixed a bug that caused freezes and crashes when resizing windows in KDE 4 with desktop effects enabled using X.Org X server version 1.10 or later. <QUOTE> Sure sounds familiar to me... - Mark On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Neil Bothwick wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 14:42:50 -0500, Dale wrote: >>> >>> >>>> >>>> Yea, done tried that. I tried different kernels, different nvidia >>>> drivers and all with no change. >>>> >>> >>> WAG - have you tried the nv drivers? >>> >>> >>> >> >> I did but I couldn't get X to even start. I guess something is not set >> right somewhere. I have nv in make.conf and been there since I built this >> thing so sort of clueless on why it don't work. >> >> Maybe it's because I don't use the latest greatest cards but I don't think I >> have ever really had trouble with nvidia drivers. Surely it can't be good >> luck. ;-) >> >> While I am at it, what is the syntax to mask a package higher than a certain >> version in package.mask? I tired =>package.name.version and tried >= >> package.name.version but the former doesn't work and seems to ignore it and >> the later makes emerge print a boo boo message. On my old rig, I want to >> mask anything above the 173 series. So far, I haven't had the light bulb >> moment and never can remember how to do this. >> >> Thanks. >> >> Dale > > May I ask exactly what NVidia card you are using and why you are using > (if I understood you correctly) the nv driver and not the nvidia > driver? > > This page at NVidia will point you at the right driver. I've got a > little bit of every NVidia technology here and they haven't treated me > wrong yet. > > http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us > > My make.conf files all say > > VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" > > and then I typically use the beta driver ala: > > mark@slinky ~ $ cat /etc/portage/package.keywords | grep nvidia > x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers ~amd64 > dev-util/nvidia-cuda-toolkit ~amd64 > dev-util/nvidia-cuda-sdk ~amd64 > mark@slinky ~ $ > > You won't need the CUDAstuff. > > It's always the NVidia driver in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, not the older nv driver: > > mark@slinky ~ $ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep nvidia > Driver "nvidia" > mark@slinky ~ $ > > - Mark >
