On 05/03/2012 08:50 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 03/05/12 09:39, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: >> One month ago I switched to an Nvidia-based (ASUS GT520, PCI-e) video >> card on an ~amd64 box. I immediately had problems with the latest Nvidia >> driver causing a segfault when X started (text console is ok) so I >> switched to 295.20-r1 and everything was fine. >> >> But I forgot to mask 295.40 and during yesterday's update it got pulled >> in again, with the same segfault behaviour when starting X. >> >> I tried to manually downgrade nvidia-drivers but now glibc is upgraded >> to 2.15-r1 and nvidia-drivers-295.20-r1 depends on an older glibc >> (2.14.1-r3, I think). Emerge refuses to downgrade glibc so I am stuck. >> >> Since it is a mythtv box I want to stay away from nouveau. No problem >> myself with it but most of the mythtv development is around proprietary >> nvidia drivers. >> >> What other options do I have? >> Is everybody running nvidia-drivers-295.40 without problems? > > No problems here, but you can try 302.07 (I run those since yesterday.) > The usual way: copy the ebuild in your local overlay and rename it to > nvidia-drivers-302.07.ebuild, then do a digest. Same for > nvidia-settings, but edit it and remove the patches.
thanks, but I'd rather keep that as a last option because I have no guarantee of success with the 302.07 driver. Another possibility came to my mind: I have a backup partition which I did not upgrade since I switched from the on-board ATI GPU to the Nvidia video card. I'll try to upgrade that partition masking >nvidia-drivers-295.20-r1. It'd be interesting to understand why I'm getting the segfault with the 295.40, but being a closed driver I suppose there is little I can diagnose. raffaele
