The nv driver is extremely limited. It is akin to setting the driver to 'vesa'.
Also, last I knew, nv was depricated. Were you thinking of the nouveau driver? On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Joost Ruis <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not able to reproduce this 'crash to blank screen' on 2 different > systems. (tried with Intel graphics and AMD-fglrx). > On both systems I was able to at some point get a plasma crash, but it > is able to retore itself from that. > > On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Josef Odenthal <[email protected]> wrote: >> I tried the nv driver with opengl set to xorg and nvidia both resulted with >> black screen with flashing cursor >> >> I then tried with the vesa driver screen was not refreshing correctly >> inserting usb stick caused dt to freeze (I waited 2 minutes hoping it would >> come back) >> >> Changed back to nvidia driver inserted usb stick mpounted it via notifier >> worked ok until umount then it dt crashed >> >> Have noticed that the nvidia graphics does slow down after a bit of usage, >> might be worth while going back to previous driver as suggested by Fabio >> >> I did a clean install on a x86 that has an older x1650 radeon card, using >> the daily k build (march 7) it is using ati driver but I still have usb >> crash when umount usb stick (will be changing it to limbo repo then update >> TO KDE 4.8.1) >> >> Will also test kde 4.8.1 on another 5 (64bit) systems when I wake up in the >> morning >> >> >> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Joost Ruis <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> The crash happens everywhere (not always at once) but the PROBLEM here >>> seems that nvidia-drivers users can not recover from this crash, where >>> other systems can. (e.g. using FGLRX) That is what I'm about here. >>> >>> It is kinda default that on each major KDE bump configs break, nothing >>> new there. >>> >>> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Michele <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > On 9/03/2012 11:08, Joost Ruis wrote: >>> >> >>> >> I still wonder if there is a relation with those nvidia-drivers. >>> >> >>> >> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 4:51 AM, Josef Odenthal<[email protected]> >>> >> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> Quick report >>> >>> Updated to kde 4.8.1 using sulfur and limbo repo >>> >>> After reboot lower panel no longer appeared (just right click dt and >>> >>> select >>> >>> add panel>default) >>> >>> Widgets from previous dt no longer loaded at kde start (just added >>> >>> them >>> >>> back >>> >>> manually) >>> >>> >>> >>> And still having (but not as bad) the kde 4.8.0 usb crash problem >>> >>> >>> >>> If you want logs just yell out but give me a few days as I have more >>> >>> important tasks >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >>> > >>> > It rather makes me think of a change in config files format, from the >>> > description. Maybe it only happens if you have some specific setting >>> > that >>> > got removed or something like that. >>> > It could be the good time for me to get rid of that archaic task bar and >>> > switch to PieDock or something similar. >>> > >>> > mic >>> > >>> >>> >> >> >> >> > >
