NVIDIA driver causes kernel freeze

[Thomas Olsen]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Thomas Olsen <tanghus at gmail.com> 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.
>

Apparently it's a total no-go combo with this card and the binary drivers. I
just spend 2 hrs. trying everything I could think of but the kernel freezes
even before X starts.

Thanks for all the help guys but I guess I'll have to find some other card.

-- 
Best regards / Med venlig hilsen

Thomas Olsen
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