NVIDIA driver causes kernel freeze

[Ric Moore]

On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 10:44 +1000, Steve Morris wrote:
> On 25/08/10 05:53, Thomas Olsen wrote: 
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Ric Moore <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. 

I had to use the "Nvidia Xserver settings" app that gets installed along
with nvidia (look in systems in your applications launcher) to set my
monitor (by autodetect) and write a new xorg.conf file. Once I did that,
I'm back in business. 
-- 
My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say:
"There are two Great Sins in the world...
..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.
Linux user# 44256