On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 10:03 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Mark Knecht wrote:
>>
>> DAle,
>> PLEASE look at bullet item #3 in this NVidia release:
>>
>> http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-amd64-275.09.07-driver.html
>>
>> <QUOTE>
>>
>> Fixed a bug that caused freezes and crashes when resizing windows in
>> KDE 4 with desktop effects enabled using X.Org X server version 1.10
>> or later.
>> <QUOTE>
>>
>> Sure sounds familiar to me...
>>
>> - Mark
>>
>>
>
> Yea, that does sound familiar. Trying to recall who could have had that
> problem. Hmmmm. Oh, it was me !! lol This is my card info:
>
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT200 [GeForce GT 220]
> (rev a2)
>
> Drivers:
>
> x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-270.41.19
>
> That is the latest for my card that is in the tree.
No! It is not the latest. It's just what portage is offering you. The
link I sent you clearly (!?) stated that you need to be running the
latest 'Certified' driver revision 275.09.07 to get this fix. Just
because the Gentoo devs haven't marked it as stable does (to me) mean
that I should take their word for it. The company that makes the GPU
AND designed the driver says to upgrade, so in this case I do what
NVidia tells me.
mark@c2stable ~ $ eix nvidia-drivers
[I] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers
Available versions: 96.43.19!s 173.14.28!s 173.14.30!s
(~)256.53!s 260.19.44!s 270.41.06!s (~)270.41.19!s (~)275.09.07!s
{acpi custom-cflags gtk kernel_linux multilib}
Installed versions: 275.09.07!s(10:21:39 AM 06/24/2011)(acpi gtk
kernel_linux multilib -custom-cflags)
Homepage: http://www.nvidia.com/
Description: NVIDIA X11 driver and GLX libraries
mark@c2stable ~ $
Do the right thing for your machine. Keep it up to date as per
portage, not downgrading to old Xorg stuff, and use the driver NVidia
tells you to use.
Happy, happy.
> Now keep in mind, going
> back to the older xorg fixed the Konsole and resizing issue I had. So far,
> I'm not sure Firefox has its problem fixed. I'm going to try it here in a
> few. Just close everything I can, type in sync and open the thing and see
> if the smoke gets out. Oh, got to install it again too. Almost forgot
> that.
>
> It's funny in a way. I haven't been to the nvidia website in ages. I just
> sort of guess at a version, try it and see if it works. If not, try another
> one until I find one that does. There isn't that many in the tree. I never
> use the latest because I have never had that new of a card. :/
New drivers AREN'T only for new cards. They are also for old cards
that develop new problems. I.e. - a resizing problem in KDE4 with a
new Xorg package.
In this one case of NVidia hardware, if I'm going to use the closed
source driver then it seems to me the controlling authority of what to
use is NVidia and a Gentoo dev who doesn't have this problem. I
suspect if a Gentoo dev had the problem you're having this driver
would have been marked stable weeks ago!
Cheers,
Mark
