On 04/15/2014 04:18 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 04/14/2014 07:39 AM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: >> I've had to replace my GPU today. Prior to attempting to start X with >> the new GPU in, I thought I'd pull in the latest updates and reboot the >> system. X wouldn't start as a result. I've googled for answers, but >> haven't found a solution so far. > Nvidia dropped support for the GeForce 210 in their 334 series. It's > still there in the 331 series, though, if you want to downgrade. > > Same thing happened to me a while ago with my old 7800GT. I don't have > any reason to buy a new GPU, so I switched to nouveau. > > Reference: http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html (pick a version, and > hit "Supported Products"). > > > Thanks for your response. Apologies for the delay in replying.
After googling a bit more I did figure that the problem was with the proprietary driver I was using. I did try downgrading to some of these drivers, but to no avail, unless I did something wrong in the process: /usr/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers/nvidia-drivers-304.121.ebuild /usr/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers/nvidia-drivers-331.49-r3.ebuild /usr/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers/nvidia-drivers-331.49.ebuild /usr/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers/nvidia-drivers-331.67.ebuild What I ended up doing was using the x11-drivers/xf86-video-nouveau-1.0.10 driver. I set these up in my kernel .config: CONFIG_DRM_NOUVEAU=y CONFIG_NOUVEAU_DEBUG=5 CONFIG_NOUVEAU_DEBUG_DEFAULT=3 CONFIG_DRM_NOUVEAU_BACKLIGHT=y Enabled nouveau and disabled nvidia in make.conf: egrep 'nvidia|nouveau' /etc/portage/make.conf USE="$USE -nvidia consolekit pam policykit udisks upower acpi lm_sensors" VIDEO_CARDS="nouveau" And ran: emerge --ask --changed-use --deep @world The new driver's been running OK so far. Playing videos via vlc/mplayer seems to run smooth. Some youtube videos are a bit choppy, and/or delayed though. Not sure if it's the nouveau driver to blame or the fact that I've got 1 Gb of RAM onboard. Should I have enabled the nouveau USE flag globally in make.conf like I previously did for nvidia, or is that not necessary? If there is something else I should be doing, or something I overlooked, I'd appreciate anyone letting me know. Thanks.
