Mark Knecht wrote:
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 10:03 PM, Dale<rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote:
Mark Knecht wrote:
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
Yea, that does sound familiar. Trying to recall who could have had that
problem. Hmmmm. Oh, it was me !! lol This is my card info:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT200 [GeForce GT 220]
(rev a2)
Drivers:
x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-270.41.19
That is the latest for my card that is in the tree.
No! It is not the latest. It's just what portage is offering you. The
link I sent you clearly (!?) stated that you need to be running the
latest 'Certified' driver revision 275.09.07 to get this fix. Just
because the Gentoo devs haven't marked it as stable does (to me) mean
that I should take their word for it. The company that makes the GPU
AND designed the driver says to upgrade, so in this case I do what
NVidia tells me.
mark@c2stable ~ $ eix nvidia-drivers
[I] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers
Available versions: 96.43.19!s 173.14.28!s 173.14.30!s
(~)256.53!s 260.19.44!s 270.41.06!s (~)270.41.19!s (~)275.09.07!s
{acpi custom-cflags gtk kernel_linux multilib}
Installed versions: 275.09.07!s(10:21:39 AM 06/24/2011)(acpi gtk
kernel_linux multilib -custom-cflags)
Homepage: http://www.nvidia.com/
Description: NVIDIA X11 driver and GLX libraries
mark@c2stable ~ $
Do the right thing for your machine. Keep it up to date as per
portage, not downgrading to old Xorg stuff, and use the driver NVidia
tells you to use.
Happy, happy.
Now keep in mind, going
back to the older xorg fixed the Konsole and resizing issue I had. So far,
I'm not sure Firefox has its problem fixed. I'm going to try it here in a
few. Just close everything I can, type in sync and open the thing and see
if the smoke gets out. Oh, got to install it again too. Almost forgot
that.
It's funny in a way. I haven't been to the nvidia website in ages. I just
sort of guess at a version, try it and see if it works. If not, try another
one until I find one that does. There isn't that many in the tree. I never
use the latest because I have never had that new of a card. :/
New drivers AREN'T only for new cards. They are also for old cards
that develop new problems. I.e. - a resizing problem in KDE4 with a
new Xorg package.
In this one case of NVidia hardware, if I'm going to use the closed
source driver then it seems to me the controlling authority of what to
use is NVidia and a Gentoo dev who doesn't have this problem. I
suspect if a Gentoo dev had the problem you're having this driver
would have been marked stable weeks ago!
Cheers,
Mark
Since I only use portage to install things, if it isn't in portage, I
don't see it. Yea, I could most likely download and install it manually
from Nvidia but I like the way portage does it. That's why I use Gentoo
to begin with. Even when I used Mandrake, I didn't like installing
things outside of what Mandrake installed itself. Nvidia was one of
those but I don't think they put the drivers in their list of packages
anyway. Sort of had no choice with them. I just wonder why no one has
updated this in the tree yet?
As for xorg, if going to a older version will fix something, then a
older version it is. It's no different than me running something
masked/keyworded to fix a issue. Heck, I have ran several packages that
were masked/keyworded because it had a fix for some problem. I suspect
most all of us have done that at some time or other.
Also, I do know that drivers get updated even for older cards. They are
always coming out with some fix, new feature or just a new bug. lol I
upgrade them sometimes on my old rig with a FX-5200 card. It happens
often enough.
Dale
:-) :-)
