Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with hi-res display and nouveau driver on *one* system

2014-05-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 11 May 2014 20:12:54 -0400, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: ***IT'S LOADING BOTH NOUVEAU AND NV (NVIDIA BINARY BLOB) DRIVERS***. I am embarrassed to report that I missed that (perhaps nv is the nv nvidia; but in any case it is loading two drivers, which is bad). Thank you very much

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with hi-res display and nouveau driver on *one* system

2014-05-12 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 12.05.2014 02:12, schrieb gottl...@nyu.edu: I realize you don't use gdm/gnome. But perhaps someone has seen the following problem. To release the screensaver, the current gnome wants you to press mouse button1 and move the mouse up (as with phones and tablets). This fails to end the

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with hi-res display and nouveau driver on *one* system

2014-05-12 Thread gottlieb
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

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with hi-res display and nouveau driver on *one* system

2014-05-12 Thread gottlieb
On Mon, May 12 2014, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 11 May 2014 20:12:54 -0400, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: ***IT'S LOADING BOTH NOUVEAU AND NV (NVIDIA BINARY BLOB) DRIVERS***. I am embarrassed to report that I missed that (perhaps nv is the nv nvidia; but in any case it is loading two

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with hi-res display and nouveau driver on *one* system

2014-05-12 Thread gottlieb
On Mon, May 12 2014, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 12.05.2014 02:12, schrieb gottl...@nyu.edu: I realize you don't use gdm/gnome. But perhaps someone has seen the following problem. To release the screensaver, the current gnome wants you to press mouse button1 and move the mouse up (as

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with hi-res display and nouveau driver on *one* system

2014-05-12 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 7:20 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: [...] I did emerge --changed-use --update --keep-going world and emerge --depclean --ask --ignore-default-opts The problem remains (after a reboot). Specifically, gdm/gnome-shell puts up the screensaver giving the time in big

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with hi-res display and nouveau driver on *one* system

2014-05-12 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 7:21 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Mon, May 12 2014, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 12.05.2014 02:12, schrieb gottl...@nyu.edu: I realize you don't use gdm/gnome. But perhaps someone has seen the following problem. To release the screensaver, the current gnome

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with hi-res display and nouveau driver on *one* system

2014-05-12 Thread gottlieb
On Mon, May 12 2014, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 7:20 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: [...] I did emerge --changed-use --update --keep-going world and emerge --depclean --ask --ignore-default-opts The problem remains (after a reboot). Specifically, gdm/gnome-shell

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with hi-res display and nouveau driver on *one* system

2014-05-11 Thread the
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 05/11/14 20:43, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I have two systems with nvidia cards. Let call them OK and NG. OK is a laptop and NG is a desktop, but I think that is irrelevant. For both I am using the nouveau driver [...] This could be the

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with hi-res display and nouveau driver on *one* system

2014-05-11 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 12:43:59PM -0400, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote I have two systems with nvidia cards. Let call them OK and NG. OK is a laptop and NG is a desktop, but I think that is irrelevant. For both I am using the nouveau driver and kernel 3.12.13. My only monitor is a 2560x1600 dell

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with hi-res display and nouveau driver on *one* system

2014-05-11 Thread gottlieb
On Sun, May 11 2014, Walter Dnes wrote: I copied the two messages, and compared them side-by-each in xterms. I had done exactly that prior to posting When X realizes that you have an Nvidia card, and no xorg.conf, it sets up a list of all drivers that could possibly work with your card,

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with hi-res display and nouveau driver on *one* system

2014-05-11 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 7:12 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Sun, May 11 2014, Walter Dnes wrote [snip]: Plan B) if Plan A fails, manually remove /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/nv_drv.so That's a really bad idea. If the driver is there, and Allan didn't rememeber being the one that put it,