On Mon, May 12 2014, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 11 May 2014 20:12:54 -0400, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: > >> > ***IT'S LOADING BOTH NOUVEAU AND NV (NVIDIA BINARY BLOB) >> > DRIVERS***. >> >> I am embarrassed to report that I missed that (perhaps nv is the nv >> nvidia; but in any case it is loading two drivers, which is bad). >> Thank you very much for this catch >> >> > Plan A) unmerge the Nvidia binary drivers >> >> I had done that initially > > nv is not the Nvidia binary driver, it is the 2D-only open source driver > in XOrg. I expect you have nv in VIDEO_CARDS.
At one point perhaps but I did set to VIDEO_CARDS to just nouveau before starting to convert. >> > Plan B) if Plan A fails, manually remove >> > /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/nv_drv.so >> >> This helped considerably. > > Until the next XOrg update, at which point it will be reinstalled and > your problems will start again. Set VIDEO_CARDS correctly then do > > emerge -uavDN && emerge -ca I have done this (more or less). I have EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--ask --deep --tree --verbose --jobs --load-average=3" I did emerge --changed-use --update --keep-going world and emerge --depclean --ask --ignore-default-opts The problem remains (after a reboot). Specifically, gdm/gnome-shell puts up the screensaver giving the time in big characters and I can't get rid of it using the mouse or keyboard. I also tried /etc/init.d/gdm restart with no improvement. thanks, allan
