NVIDIA driver causes kernel freeze

[Steve Morris]

On 25/08/10 05:53, Thomas Olsen wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com
> <mailto:wayward4now at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 15:11 +0200, Thomas Olsen wrote:
>
>
>     > 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.
>
>     I have several nvidia video cards on machines that are older than
>     yours.
>     Nary a hiccup in the barrel. It did take several tries with the
>     "hardware drivers" app to finally get it to work though. Nouveau is a
>     ways off to become a replacement for the stock nvidia driver. I don't
>     have the xserver-xorg-video-nouveau package installed. I think I ran
>     into a conflict with it early in my fresh install of Lucid. Ric
>
> Well maybe I should try to purge xserver-xorg-video-nouveau and before
> I install the binary because kern.log looked like parts of nouveau was
> being loaded. Hmm. I'll give it a try tomorrow. Thanks.
>
> BTW: In xorg.conf do you user Driver "nvidia" or "nv"?
In xorg.conf to use the proprietary nvidia driver you  need     Driver
"nvidia", the "nv" driver is non-accelerated precursor to "nouveau". The
slowness you are experiencing is due to the nouveau driver not using
hardware acceleration which is also required for some games/software. I
am using the proprietary driver without any problems but I had to start
with an xorg.conf from another distribution as by default Ubuntu does
not use xorg.conf and installing the proprietary driver in my case did
not create one. I also found that using nvidia-xconfig to create an
xorg.conf did not work either.
I have attached the xorg.conf I am using under ubuntu for reference.

regards,
Steve

>
> Best regards
>
> Thomas Olsen
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