On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Willie Matthews <matthews.wil...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On 08/02/12 14:39, Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Willie Matthews<matthews.wil...@gmail.com> > <matthews.wil...@gmail.com> wrote: > <SNIP> > > Hey Mark, > > What technical information would you like me to post? I am not to good > with troubleshooting. > > Driver Version is x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-302.17:0 > > -- > > Willie matthewsmatthews.wil...@gmail.com > > If you're gonna be a Gentoo user you will develop more of those traits > over time. > > That's the newest driver. As per Paul's suggestion you might try an older one. > > Other than that post the contents of /etc/X11/xorg.conf as well as > your current xorg log file, most like /var/log/Xorg.0.log, but it > might have a different name. > > As the 6150 seems to be an on-board GPU only used in specific nvidia > laptop chipsets I have no idea about it's specs. As you say it's not > CUDA-based I'm suspicious about mixing CUDA & non-CUDA and getting > good results. You might query the nouveau driver guys to see if they > support it. The 8400 is probably well supported there and likely > someone will know if they support old & new NVidia chips running > together. > > Also, if you can get it to crash and are still able to ssh in then I'd > look closely at the X11 log file and see if it says anything, as well > as dmesg, etc. Maybe you're up against a kernel bug or something. (You > didn't tell us much about your setup...) ;-) > > HTH, > Mark > > Hey Mark, > > I have tried numerous drivers, from I think 275 up, skipping a couple of > revisions. I end up with the same result when it comes to the 8400GS. I > have also tried the nouveau driver with the same result. I have to disable > the acceleration for it to work. > > When I change the bios setting to use the PCIe it doesn't show the 6150 at > all in lspci (I Think). I am using the same xorg.conf file that I use for > my 8400, nothing about it has changed except for the addition of the > suggestions of Paul. Even that change still have the 6150 still working. > > Here are the two files that you asked for. > > /var/log/Xorg.0.log http://pastebin.com/dPy7HPRZ > /etc/X11/xorg.conf http://pastebin.com/JQMr6HTS > > In the beginning this was my desktop with Gentoo on it. 8400 worked just > fine. I started using it as a headless server for awhile and playing around > with CUDA, now I am back to using it as a desktop but more for XBMC > connected to a TV. I still use it to share the net, DNS, DHCP you know all > that good stuff. > > Kernel Version 3.3.8-gentoo-r1 > Tried to build 3.4 series but it just crashes out this computer, haven't > tried the 3.5 series yet. > > I also just looked through my /var/log/messages file. It is nothing in > there about the crash. It just jump time 2 minutes. That is the same thing > that would be in dmesg right? > > I will switch back to the 8400 to take a look at dmesg for the crash if I > can ssh in still. > > -- > > Willie matthewsmatthews.wil...@gmail.com > > > > Can't get dmesg log. Can't ssh into it anymore! :( -- Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com
