On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:29:09 +0930 Iain Buchanan wrote: Hi,
> In my experience, various nvidia-drivers just seem to "not work" with > my system, no matter how many times I rebuild and recheck things. I > have a whole bunch of versions masked. Looking back, I never seemed > to have a problem with 180.60 - I ran it for about 4-6 weeks. > > You could try adding this to /etc/portage/package.mask: > =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-180.60 I did upgrade... > Then decide whether you want to downgrade to the previous stable, or > upgrade to the latest unstable. I'm running unstable 190.42-r2 and so > far it's quite "stable", but as we've seen, every system is different! > (I'm on ~x86, so quite a bit of my system will differ from yours). here I'm... same version as you but diff revision . [I] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers Installed versions: 190.42-r3!s(12:51:20 PM 11/16/2009)(acpi gtk kernel_li X starts fine (I see NVidia logo for only half second) I can change between workspaces fine, but when I open an application it hangs... I'm lucky cause I can change to virtual console with Ctrl+Alt+F1 and no reboot needed, but I'm really tired about this issue... nv does not work neither and I don't know what else I can try... Vesa sucks (well, at least I can see things in my screen if I take off my glasses).... and I see no other people with same problem. > HTH, Thanks for your reply, -- Arnau Bria http://blog.emergetux.net Bombing for peace is like fucking for virginity