On 03/05/12 17:13, Raffaele BELARDI wrote:
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.
There are no guarantees in life. Only wasted time, which in this case
amounts to 5-8 minutes for copying/editing and emerging. If you even
need a guarantee even for not losing 8 minutes of your time, then I
don't know :-/
