I have an asus a8n32 sli deluxe with an evga 8800 gts nvidia card. When I have the vesa driver running screensaver mode starts correctly and goes into standby and suspend modes correctly. When I have the 100 series drivers installed, anytime it enters standby mode the screen begins to move crazy as if the screen were moving like a tv with the vertical hold incorrectly adjusted (without using beryl or compiz). With the 9755 driver, it will go into standby mode correctly if not using beryl or compiz. If I am using either the screen will have the same problem. The very same computer when booted into suse 10.3 will run correctly with the 100 series drivers installed from the nvidia installer. Have tried all the xorg.conf options about edids and none correct this behaviour, I can only assume this is an nvidia-driver problem as this behaviour is not exhibited using vesa. Reproducible: Always
Any suggestions from http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml?
I just have to say that the 2 spaces between each word thing is *really* annoying. Usually, you don't want to do things to annoy the people who might fix your bug :P
Please reformat the text so that it's actually readable, my eyes are bleeding.
My apologies for the formatting, I have always double spaced in typing so I dont know what to say but I will type single space in continuing this, I am not sure that this is a bug with gentoos version of the nvidia driver, I am starting to believe this is more related to kde's implementation of power management to 8800 series cards, I have tried Xscreensaver and it is able to standby and power down the display normally, What I noticed is that I also need to use Option "UseEDID" "False" to get it to use my display properly ( of course, I have vert, hor and dpi specified in xorg.conf). Regardless of what I use in xorg, enabling kde power management from your configure your desktop just doesnt work, in addition screensavers show up in all different parts of the screen using kde so I am leaning towards thinking this is a bug that needs to be filed against kdesktop, and or kscreensaver. BTW, all is definitely installed correctly, guide and all, this is not my first nor my only gentoo desktop with nvidia cards but it is indeed my only one with an 8800 series card, I am not aware of any instructions specifis to the 8800 series in the nvidia guide
For help and instructions please ask on #gentoo irc channel o gentoo-user mailing list. Bugs are not support thing. If you are sure this is a bug, please reopen with relevan info, including output of emerge --info. I'm not familiar with nvidia cards, so the only suggestion from my side is to read nvidia-guide on gentoo.org if you haven't done that yet.
