On 28/10/2018 15:53, Philip Webb wrote:
I updated to xorg-server-1.20.3 yesterday & ran into trouble.
It wanted to update to nvidia-drivers-396.54 ,
which doesn't support my graphics card ( Asus GT610 : bought 150914 ) :
there was an error msg in Xorg.0.log to this effect.
I tried 390.67 (which I had been using before yesterday)
& updating to 390.87 , but got errors with the latter
"failed to initialise kernel module" (Xorg)
& "nvidia : unknown symbol backlight_device_register" (kernel) ;
390.67 won't emerge with xorg-server-1.20.3 .
So I'm back using Nouveau, which seems to work adequately for most things,
but won't run 3D screensavers.
Perhaps I should buy a more upto-date graphics card.
Does anyone have comments or suggestions ?
The nvidia legacy GPU driver branch is a PITA to follow. You need to
somehow magically know yourself which x.org versions they support and
package.mask newer versions of xorg-server yourself. Nvidia does not
seem to document the xorg versions they support. At least I haven't
found the place they document it, if they do.
Right now, I would try to mask >=x11-base/xorg-server-1.20, do a:
emerge -auDN @world
then re-emerge the legacy nvidia driver and see if that helps.
