On 01/06/2017 02:18 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 01/06/2017 05:51 AM, Daniel Frey wrote: >> I think I fixed it by accident. I couldn't find the KMS helpers to >> enable for an external module in the kernel, so I built the Intel driver >> with KMS support and it dragged in the KMS helper bits (confirmed by >> grepping .config). Why can't we just turn that option on directly in >> menuconfig for external modules? This is in gentoo-sources. >> >> I've rebooted and the problem has gone away, go figure. > > I don't know if you missed my other post, but for nvidia, it's > recommended to disable DRM and KMS. > > >
So I just recompiled DRM/KMS from the kernel, recompiled, redid the initramfs (just in case) and rebooted. The errors are also gone but I now have this: [ 31.918334] nvidia-modeset: Loading NVIDIA Kernel Mode Setting Driver for UNIX platforms 375.26 Thu Dec 8 18:04:14 PST 2016 [ 31.918704] nvidia-modeset: Allocated GPU:0 (GPU-14e248cf-aecd-cf7a-31f4-113e6d075ece) @ PCI:0000:01:00.0 ...which I didn't have before. I know how this happened, now that I think about it. I was using nouveau for the longest time and enjoying the nice hires tty, but when I upgraded to plasma5 (reluctantly) plasma was crashing all the time... so I went back to nvidia proper (forgetting to completely disable DRM/KMS.) Now that all that crap is sorted out, the only couple annoying things left are alt+tab switching in plasma, and the slowness of dolphin. Task switching is slow as f*** and it's irritating. I tried to make it a bit better but most times I have to hit alt+tab 3-4 times before plasma realizes I want to change windows. No matter what I set in task switcher settings, it doesn't help. It's quite frustrating. Dolphin seems to be slower processing keyboard input now, I use shortcuts when I have to rename a few files and am very fast at it, but it missed keystrokes a couple times and the second time it was dangerous: it started deleting all files from the top of the tree, and I didn't notice until over 1 TB was gone. Argh. Neither of these were issues in 4.x and am in some disbelief how they could ship it like that. That's for another day though, I don't really want to mess with those now. Dan
