Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia update problems
On Friday 31 December 2010 12:52:08 Peter Humphrey wrote: When I start the system, instead of the kdm login screen I get a blinking cursor in the top-[left] of a blank screen. An emerge of nvidia-drivers enables me to restart kdm and get a proper screen. This is in spite of not having been able to unload the old nvidia module because it was in use. Today I found that another display problem* had been fixed with an upgrade of gtk+ to version 2.22.1-r1. It had no effect on this problem though. Nor did adding consolekit to the boot run level. It looks as though the boot sequence is going wrong somehow, because when I get my initial blank screen, if I then switch to a VT and restart xdm, everything works as expected. * This was to do with Firefox arrow buttons, as in the thread [OT] Firefox 3.6.12 problem? -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.
Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia update problems
On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 13:29:19 +0500, Gary Golden wrote: I have no idea what that means. What should I do? Read the list archives, this was discussed and solved less than two days ago. Hint: Look for the thread with the subject media-video/nvidia-settings-256.52 is blocking x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-260.19.29 -- Neil Bothwick The careful application of terror is also a form of communication. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia update problems
On Friday 31 December 2010 11:56:05 Neil Bothwick wrote: media-video/nvidia-settings-256.52 is blocking x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-260.19.29 So'm I. Ever since I upgraded nvidia-drivers to 260-19-29 I've had to recompile it every time I boot the system. This is weird. When I start the system, instead of the kdm login screen I get a blinking cursor in the top-right of a blank screen. An emerge of nvidia-drivers enables me to restart kdm and get a proper screen. This is in spite of not having been able to unload the old nvidia module because it was in use. Therefore I'm going to mask this version of nvidia-drivers and revert to the previous version. (No apologies for hijacking a vestigial thread.) -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.
Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia update problems
On Friday 31 December 2010 12:52:08 I wrote: When I start the system, instead of the kdm login screen I get a blinking cursor in the top-right of a blank screen. Of course that should have been the top-left. Sorry. -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.
Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia update problems
On Friday 31 December 2010 12:52:08 Peter Humphrey wrote: Therefore I'm going to mask this version of nvidia-drivers and revert to the previous version. That made no difference. Nor did reverting to the previous kernel revision. I noticed that xdm-setup was being run even though I had rc_hotplug=!* in /etc/rc.conf, so I stepped through a boot sequence and prevented xdm-setup from running. Xdm then refused to start. What is this xdm-setup? -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.
