NVIDIA driver causes kernel freeze

[Ric Moore]

On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 15:36 +1000, Steve Morris wrote:
> On 25/08/10 15:13, Ric Moore wrote:
> > 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. 
> >   
> For me that didn't work because it did not put the necessary modeset
> statements into xorg.conf to enable proper resolution/refresh rates for
> my monitor, so I had to start with an xorg.conf that I knew did work
> correctly.

I have a "plug n play" monitor that identifies itself and is detected by
the nvidia setup thingie. Before I ran it, I had a sparse bare little
xorg.conf file. After I ran it, it's now populated with the entries I
used to have to make by hand. YMMV, Ric


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"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.
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