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Orific
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 Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 7:40 am Post subject: KDE screensaver and nvidia drivers [solved] |
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I have an nVidia GeForce 4 MX 440 and I am trying to use the drivers of the tree (up to now I was downloading them from the nVidia website and installing them directly).
So I did:
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# echo "x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
# emerge nvidia-drivers
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But now the KDE screensaver does not work. It does not launch any more and when I try to go into the configuration menu (right-click on the desktop - Configure Desktop - Screen Saver), I get the following:
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Does anyone have an idea ?
P.S. I am using modular xorg 7.0
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ycaironi
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| Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 9:33 am Post subject: |
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I moved yesteday to Xorg modular, and have the same issue here.
Even after a revdep-rebuild.
I'm currently running an emerge world and let you know if issue is still here.
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Orific
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| Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 11:32 am Post subject: |
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| ycaironi wrote: | | I'm currently running an emerge world and let you know if issue is still here. |
Yeah I forgot to mention that I reemerged kdebase and did a revdep-rebuild before posting. |
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Orific
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| Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 11:37 am Post subject: |
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I have just had the idea that it may be linked with the use flag "xscreensaver" of kdebase.
I am not at home right now, so I can't determine if I put it or not in my build.
I'll see when I am at home and post. |
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opentaka
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| Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 12:58 pm Post subject: |
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do you have your nvidia drivers installed correctly?
and you have switched to use nvidia as your opengl?
try running glxgears to see if opengl works correctly
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Orific
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| Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 1:13 pm Post subject: |
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| opentaka wrote: | | do you have your nvidia drivers installed correctly? |
Installed correctly ? What do you mean ? Is there a magic formula or sth like that to say, aside from just typing
| Code: | | # emerge nvidia-drivers |
| opentaka wrote: | | and you have switched to use nvidia as your opengl? |
Yeah I did the switch:
| Code: | | # eselect opengl set nvidia |
| opentaka wrote: | | try running glxgears to see if opengl works correctly |
opengl is working: every other graphic application behaves flawlessly. I can play quake 3 for exemple (but don't go thinking that I spend my time doing that...  ) |
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Orific
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| Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 7:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Orific wrote: | I have just had the idea that it may be linked with the use flag "xscreensaver" of kdebase.
I am not at home right now, so I can't determine if I put it or not in my build.
I'll see when I am at home and post. |
I compiled kdebase without this flag. |
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ycaironi
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| Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 8:12 pm Post subject: |
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I Jst finished running the world update.
Now KDE is installed on my machine.
No more issue. Screen saver works well.
Use nvidia as flag, nvidia-drivers as driver, aand KDE
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Just try it. let me know.
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Orific
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| Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 1:18 am Post subject: |
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| ycaironi wrote: | Use nvidia as flag, nvidia-drivers as driver, aand KDE
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Just try it. let me know. |
There is no nvidia flag in kdebase.
But since it works now for you I suppose it must be in another kde package, probably kdelibs. So I am going to recompile kdelibs overnight and tell you tomorrow. |
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ycaironi
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| Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 7:07 am Post subject: |
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There is no nvidia flag in kdebase.
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Sorry, I should have said, I included in the make.conf VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia vesa". You must have at least VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"
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Orific
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| Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 7:13 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah I have VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" in my make.conf.
But recompiling kdelibs did not solve the problem either... It is begining to bug me 
I don't want to do an emerge -e world, since it takes forever on my machine.
So I have no other choice than going back to my former method (downloading from the nVidia website and instaling myself). |
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xenoscr
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| Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 2:13 am Post subject: |
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I was having the same issue, I ran eselect to select nvidia and now my screensaver is working again.
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Orific
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| Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 9:12 am Post subject: |
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| Finally solved with the 1.0-8774 version of the driver. I think it is due to the "added support for X.Org 7.1" change (see this page). |
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