Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with hi-res display and nouveau driver on *one* system

2014-05-12 Thread gottlieb
On Mon, May 12 2014, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 7:20 PM, wrote: > [...] >> I did >> emerge --changed-use --update --keep-going world >> and >> emerge --depclean --ask --ignore-default-opts >> >> The problem remains (after a reboot). >> Specifically, gdm/gnome-shell puts

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with hi-res display and nouveau driver on *one* system

2014-05-12 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 7:21 PM, wrote: > On Mon, May 12 2014, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > >> Am 12.05.2014 02:12, schrieb gottl...@nyu.edu: >> >>> I realize you don't use gdm/gnome. But perhaps someone has seen the >>> following problem. >>> >>> To release the screensaver, the current gnome w

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with hi-res display and nouveau driver on *one* system

2014-05-12 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 7:20 PM, wrote: [...] > I did > emerge --changed-use --update --keep-going world > and > emerge --depclean --ask --ignore-default-opts > > The problem remains (after a reboot). > Specifically, gdm/gnome-shell puts up the screensaver giving the time in > big characters and

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with hi-res display and nouveau driver on *one* system

2014-05-12 Thread gottlieb
On Mon, May 12 2014, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 12.05.2014 02:12, schrieb gottl...@nyu.edu: > >> I realize you don't use gdm/gnome. But perhaps someone has seen the >> following problem. >> >> To release the screensaver, the current gnome wants you to press mouse >> button1 and move the mo

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with hi-res display and nouveau driver on *one* system

2014-05-12 Thread gottlieb
On Mon, May 12 2014, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 11 May 2014 20:12:54 -0400, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: > >> > ***IT'S LOADING BOTH NOUVEAU AND NV (NVIDIA BINARY BLOB) >> > DRIVERS***. >> >> I am embarrassed to report that I missed that (perhaps nv is the nv >> nvidia; but in any case it is l

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with hi-res display and nouveau driver on *one* system

2014-05-12 Thread gottlieb
On Sun, May 11 2014, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 7:12 PM, wrote: >> This helped considerably. No grey bands; instead gdm puts up its >> screensaver and tells us the (correct) time. Moving the mouse moves the >> pointer and clicking on the upper right button shows the v

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with hi-res display and nouveau driver on *one* system

2014-05-12 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 12.05.2014 02:12, schrieb gottl...@nyu.edu: > I realize you don't use gdm/gnome. But perhaps someone has seen the > following problem. > > To release the screensaver, the current gnome wants you to press mouse > button1 and move the mouse up (as with phones and tablets). This fails > to end

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with hi-res display and nouveau driver on *one* system

2014-05-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 11 May 2014 20:12:54 -0400, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: > > ***IT'S LOADING BOTH NOUVEAU AND NV (NVIDIA BINARY BLOB) > > DRIVERS***. > > I am embarrassed to report that I missed that (perhaps nv is the nv > nvidia; but in any case it is loading two drivers, which is bad). > Thank you very

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with hi-res display and nouveau driver on *one* system

2014-05-11 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 7:12 PM, wrote: > On Sun, May 11 2014, Walter Dnes wrote [snip]: >> Plan B) if Plan A fails, manually remove >> /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/nv_drv.so That's a really bad idea. If the driver is there, and Allan didn't rememeber being the one that put it, something else

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with hi-res display and nouveau driver on *one* system

2014-05-11 Thread gottlieb
On Sun, May 11 2014, Walter Dnes wrote: > I copied the two messages, and compared them side-by-each in xterms. I had done exactly that prior to posting > When X realizes that you have an Nvidia card, and no xorg.conf, it sets > up a list of all drivers that could possibly work with your card,

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with hi-res display and nouveau driver on *one* system

2014-05-11 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 12:43:59PM -0400, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote > I have two systems with nvidia cards. Let call them OK and NG. > OK is a laptop and NG is a desktop, but I think that is irrelevant. > > For both I am using the nouveau driver and kernel 3.12.13. > My only monitor is a 2560x1600 d

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with hi-res display and nouveau driver on *one* system

2014-05-11 Thread the
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 05/11/14 20:43, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: > I have two systems with nvidia cards. Let call them OK and NG. OK > is a laptop and NG is a desktop, but I think that is irrelevant. > > For both I am using the nouveau driver [...] This could be the pro