NVIDIA driver causes kernel freeze

[Goh Lip]

On 08/24/2010 06:48 PM, Thomas Olsen wrote:
> My PC recently died so now I'm running a very old box that has an nVidia
> Corporation NV35 [GeForce FX 5900] (rev a1) as reported by lspci.
> X default to using the nouveau driver that is extremely slow.
> I tried installing the binary driver using System/Hardware Drivers but
> this causes a kernel freeze as seen below. I had to boot up from the
> Alternate CD to manually remove the driver - and rename xorg.conf.
>
> I can see that the kernel nicely suggests a way to get around it but I'm
> a bit unsure exactly which steps to follow. lsmod doesn't report any of
> rivafb, rivatv or nvidiafb as loaded when using the nouveau driver.
> I tried looking through the archives and Google but couldn't find any
> answers.
>
> In the hope that someone can help



Try to boot up by appending "nouveau.modeset=0" (no quotes marks) to the 
linux line of grub and delete "splash" and "quiet". If this works, then 
you need to redo your video driver, purge first so you have a fresh 
xorg.conf file.

Regards - Goh Lip

ps: I assume this is not on maverick, there is a nvidia bug there.