NVIDIA driver causes kernel freeze

[Thomas Olsen]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Goh Lip <g.lip at gmx.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
Actually I have no problems booting up with the nouveau driver now except
that it's so damn slow.
After reading my mail again I can see that I wasn't being quite clear. I'd
like to see if the binary driver is faster but as it freezes the kernel I
wanted to ask if this was a known bug and if there's a way to get around it.

Thanks anyways :-)


> Regards - Goh Lip
>
> ps: I assume this is not on maverick, there is a nvidia bug there.
>
>
No it's 10.4


Best regards

Thomas Olsen
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