On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: >> >> On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 14:42:50 -0500, Dale wrote: >> >> >>> >>> Yea, done tried that. I tried different kernels, different nvidia >>> drivers and all with no change. >>> >> >> WAG - have you tried the nv drivers? >> >> >> > > I did but I couldn't get X to even start. I guess something is not set > right somewhere. I have nv in make.conf and been there since I built this > thing so sort of clueless on why it don't work. > > Maybe it's because I don't use the latest greatest cards but I don't think I > have ever really had trouble with nvidia drivers. Surely it can't be good > luck. ;-) > > While I am at it, what is the syntax to mask a package higher than a certain > version in package.mask? I tired =>package.name.version and tried >= > package.name.version but the former doesn't work and seems to ignore it and > the later makes emerge print a boo boo message. On my old rig, I want to > mask anything above the 173 series. So far, I haven't had the light bulb > moment and never can remember how to do this. > > Thanks. > > Dale
May I ask exactly what NVidia card you are using and why you are using (if I understood you correctly) the nv driver and not the nvidia driver? This page at NVidia will point you at the right driver. I've got a little bit of every NVidia technology here and they haven't treated me wrong yet. http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us My make.conf files all say VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" and then I typically use the beta driver ala: mark@slinky ~ $ cat /etc/portage/package.keywords | grep nvidia x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers ~amd64 dev-util/nvidia-cuda-toolkit ~amd64 dev-util/nvidia-cuda-sdk ~amd64 mark@slinky ~ $ You won't need the CUDAstuff. It's always the NVidia driver in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, not the older nv driver: mark@slinky ~ $ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep nvidia Driver "nvidia" mark@slinky ~ $ - Mark
