On Wednesday 01 February 2006 17:37, Sloan Poe wrote: > Okay, so I'm having two unrelated issues. My first problem was with the > upgrade to the 8178 release of the nvidia drivers. (I'm running 64 bit > gentoo on an HP zv5000) When I upgraded to the latest version of the > drivers suddenly X starts up all garbled. I can see the mouse move but > it's all distorted and large. Now here is the weird thing. When I run > X with TwinView (when I'm at work) it works perfectly like it should.
I have issues that are superficially similar (Compaq R3000Z - 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 x86_64). Since upgrading to the 8xxx nvidia drivers, when X starts my fonts are all oversized. Other than that, all is fine - so my X isn't garbled, just large fonts. This is fixed if I run the gnome-settings-daemon, and restart 'kicker', 'kdesktop' and 'kwin'. I'm obviously on a KDE desktop - although the oversized font problem also plagues GNOME, and is also fixed by re-running gnome-settings-daemon. Oddly enough, with TwinView this doesn't happen. X starts and all the fonts are sized correctly. Also, this is something of a driver-specific problem. I didn't experience it with the 7xxx drivers, but I did with certain of the 6xxx drivers. Not sure if this helps... but maybe try re-starting /usr/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon. -=R -- Rudolph Pienaar, M.Eng, D.Eng / email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MGH/MIT/HMS Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging 149 (2301) 13th Street, Charlestown, MA 02129 USA _______________________________________________ LinuxR3000 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 Wiki at http://prinsig.se/weekee/
