Howdy,
I been letting portage upgrade nvidia drivers as usual. Thing is, the
last two or three drivers seems to cause a issue. First, versions that
cause the issue:
=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-319.12
=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-319.17
=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-319.23
I'm currently using this one which works fine:
x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-313.30
This is KDE info:
[IP-] [ ] kde-base/kdelibs-4.10.3-r2
Video card info:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT216 [GeForce GT
220] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: NVIDIA Corporation Device 069a
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
Memory at fb000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at de000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
I/O ports at ef00 [size=128]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at d0000000 [disabled] [size=512K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [68] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [78] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [b4] Vendor Specific Information: Len=14 <?>
Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [128] Power Budgeting <?>
Capabilities: [600] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1
Len=024 <?>
Kernel driver in use: nvidia
Kernel modules: nvidia
The problem. After I am logged into KDE for a good while, like several
hours to maybe a day or so, the kicker thingy at the bottom locks up
tight. I can't switch desktops, clock stops working, can't click the K
menu thingy either. Everything in the kicker thingy is dead as a door
nail. I can switch desktops with the keyboard and everything else works
in KDE just fine. I can also switch to a console too. Killing X and
restarting it fixes it, xdm restart in my case. I don't have to reload
drivers or restart the system. I do go back and downgrade the drivers
after testing it.
So, is this a nvidia bug, KDE bug or is it something else? Since it
works when I go back a version of nvidia, it looks like nvidia. Think
is, it only affects KDE and nothing else. Is it possible that my card
is not supposed to use the 319.* series of drivers? The versions that
don't work are all 319.* series.
Thoughts?
Dale
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