> On 10/13/2013 03:15 PM, Dick Steffens wrote: > > When I was setting up my current desktop, a Gateway with a 64 bit > > processor, I remember learning that the nVidia driver did not work with > > 64 bit, but would work with 32 bit. And so that is what I am running on > > this machine. This was back in March, 2013. > > Nvidia has had 64bit versions of their proprietary binary drivers > available for many years - I use it on Slackware64. I don't know why you > were told, or think, that Nvidia 64bit drivers are unavailable. >
I'm currently running a 64-bit kernel and the nVidia driver on my Mythbuntu box. I needed the proprietary driver to get audio over hdmi functioning. It works very well. At least, so far. I've been struggling with one system because I recently upgraded from 10.04LTS to 12.04LTS. And so I spent far too much time trying to restore the Gnome interface. Since then I've been randomly getting "Maximum number of clients reached" from the X server (a known issue, but apparently not a very high priority issue). https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/1045899 Regardless, the only real way to recover is to restart X. Since I was facing that again anyway yesterday I figured it was a good time to do updates. When I rebooted my display wouldn't configure properly. I go though a KVM that doesn't pass EDID from the monitor. Because of that I have an xorg.conf file, with a "PreferredMode" option to explicitly set the video mode that I need. For some reason, it's ignoring that now. A line in the log file says, "'PreferredMode' option ignored" with no explanation. >From what I've found online this seems to be an issue with the nVidia driver. >I can't say that for sure, all I know is this update broke my system. Now I'm afraid to do updates on any of my other systems. There have been other issues since the update - after unblanking the screen this morning compiz locked up with 100% cpu, and I had to ssh in from another system and kill it. And certain menus assocated with specific programs are opening in strange locations. I can almost believe Ubuntu sabatoged X to create support for their "Mir" replacement. Right now I'm really, really unhappy. X11R4 has been around since before Linux. It should be one of the most mature programs on the platform. There's no excuse for this to happen with an update. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
