On Sun, May 11 2014, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 7:12 PM, <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote: >> This helped considerably. No grey bands; instead gdm puts up its >> screensaver and tells us the (correct) time. Moving the mouse moves the >> pointer and clicking on the upper right button shows the volume etc. > > Allan, what do you have in your VIDEO_CARDS variable? It's usually > defined in /etc/portage/make.conf. If you don't have it, try to set it > up to nouveau: > > VIDEO_CARDS="nouveau"
Yes I set VIDEO_CARDS="nouveau" right at the beginning > Also, what's the output of "equery l -if x11-drivers/"? [IP-] [ ] x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.8.2:0 [IP-] [ ] x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard-1.7.0:0 [IP-] [ ] x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse-1.9.0:0 [IP-] [ ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-nouveau-1.0.10:0 [IP-] [ ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-nv-2.1.20-r1:0 I had set INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" right at the beginning and ran emerge --changed-use --update --keep-going world several times. emerge --depclean --ask --ignore-default-opts only listed xf86-input-mouse. But when I specifically tried emerge --depclean xf86-input-keyboard emerge --depclean xf86-video-nv They were found and now they are gone (so this explains why I found the nv driver to delete manually). Anyway I depcleaned the unneeded drivers and now eix -I xf86- shows only evdev and nouveau as desired. However the problem remains (screensaver shows time and won't go away). Thanks for the help, allan PS emerge --changed-use --update --keep-going world shows nothing
