Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia update problems

2011-01-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 04 January 2011 21:51:37 Alan McKinnon wrote: Do you have rc_parallel=YES in /etc/rc.conf? Nope. These are the only values set in that file; everything else is comment: rc_interactive=YES rc_shell=/sbin/sulogin rc_hotplug=!* rc_logger=YES rc_start_wait=100 unicode=YES

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia update problems

2011-01-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 05 January 2011 12:43:43 Peter Humphrey wrote: These are the only values set in [/etc/rc.conf]; everything else is comment: rc_interactive=YES rc_shell=/sbin/sulogin rc_hotplug=!* rc_logger=YES rc_start_wait=100 unicode=YES rc_tty_number=12 [...] Hmm. I'm wondering about

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia update problems

2011-01-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 16:44 on Wednesday 05 January 2011, Peter Humphrey did opine thusly: On Wednesday 05 January 2011 12:43:43 Peter Humphrey wrote: These are the only values set in [/etc/rc.conf]; everything else is comment: rc_interactive=YES rc_shell=/sbin/sulogin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia update problems

2011-01-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 05 January 2011 15:32:29 Alan McKinnon wrote: Now we need to figure out *why* it was causing your problems I could just hand it over to the devs via a bug report, but I ought to do some detective work first, if only to decide which subsystem to log it against. The trouble with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia update problems

2011-01-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 17:54 on Wednesday 05 January 2011, Peter Humphrey did opine thusly: On Wednesday 05 January 2011 15:32:29 Alan McKinnon wrote: Now we need to figure out *why* it was causing your problems I could just hand it over to the devs via a bug report, but I ought

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia update problems

2011-01-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 03 January 2011 14:40:41 walt wrote: I'm wondering if you have some mixture of baselayout versions on that machine from previous updates. Unlikely: this box has been ~amd64 since before it had a complete system. Could your machine be trying to start something other than kdm by

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia update problems

2011-01-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 12:50 on Tuesday 04 January 2011, Peter Humphrey did opine thusly: On Monday 03 January 2011 14:40:41 walt wrote: I'm wondering if you have some mixture of baselayout versions on that machine from previous updates. Unlikely: this box has been ~amd64 since

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia update problems

2011-01-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 02 January 2011 15:51:24 walt wrote: On 01/02/2011 03:51 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: 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. Just for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia update problems

2011-01-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 31 December 2010 21:00:57 Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 20:54 on Friday 31 December 2010, walt did opine thusly: So, if you've ever run the NVIDIA install program manually, you probably have two different nvidia.ko files in /lib/modules, and the wrong one

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia update problems

2011-01-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 12:36 on Saturday 01 January 2011, Peter Humphrey did opine thusly: On Friday 31 December 2010 21:00:57 Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 20:54 on Friday 31 December 2010, walt did opine thusly: So, if you've ever run the NVIDIA

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia update problems

2011-01-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 01 January 2011 20:26:11 Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 12:36 on Saturday 01 January 2011, Peter Humphrey did opine thusly: Something is messing about with the nVidia module. That's how module-rebuild works, it's not broken. It *will* rebuild everything.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia update problems

2010-12-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 20:54 on Friday 31 December 2010, walt did opine thusly: On 12/31/2010 04:52 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: 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