Hello out there, I 've been having trouble with nvidia drivers since the 4191 version. The startup times simply are/were horrible. I checked lots of articles on the forum and the postings on this list but they didn't help me (I didn't try flashing my cards bios but I really don't want to do that) So I held on to my version 3123 drivers and all was well. The last time I did an update world I didn't see that there was an update for the nvidia drivers to the newes version and so, well, updated them to 4363.
OK so here I am with the following problem - When I start X with the newest drivers the system seems to hang. After around 5 minutes I shut down my machine (hard power off). Interestingly the Xfree log looks like all is well and X started without a problem (I will send it if needed). Once I shut down the machine a little early and the log looked to be still in the initialising phase. - If I install the 4340 version I have a startup time of something like 80 seconds (for X itself) which is not very tempting. - When I try to install any version prior to 4xxx I get the following error: >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123.tar.gz to /data/dvdrip/portage/nvidia-kernel-1.0.3123-r2/work ^[[32;01m*^[[0m Applying page_alloc.c patch... ^[[A^[[73G ^[[34;01m[ ^[[32;01mok ^[[34;01m]^[[0m >>> Source unpacked. rm -f nv.o os-interface.o os-registry.o Module-linux nv_compiler.h *.d NVdriverecho \#define NV_COMPILER \"`gcc -v 2>&1 | tail -1`\" > nv_compiler.h gcc -c -Wall -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wswitch -Wformat -Wchar-subscripts -Wparentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-qual -Wno-multichar -O -MD -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -DNTRM -D_GNU_SOURCE -DRM_HEAPMGR -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DNV_MAJOR_VERSION=1 -DNV_MINOR_VERSION=0 -DNV_PATCHLEVEL=3123 -DNV_UNIX -DNV_LINUX -DNVCPU_X86 -I. -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wno-cast-qual nv.c nv.c: In function `nv_get_phys_address': nv.c:2305: warning: implicit declaration of function `pte_offset' nv.c:2305: invalid type argument of `unary *' make: *** [nv.o] Error 1 !!! ERROR: media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.3123-r2 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 75, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) Can any of you help here? I would love to go back to 3123. Thanks in advance -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
