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 Best regards Thomas Olsen Aug 20 23:25:26 tanghus kernel: [ 1154.522572] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel. Aug 20 23:25:26 tanghus kernel: [ 1154.522582] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint Aug 20 23:25:26 tanghus kernel: [ 1155.554108] NVRM: The NVIDIA probe routine was not called for 1 device(s). Aug 20 23:25:26 tanghus kernel: [ 1155.554116] NVRM: This can occur when a driver such as rivafb, nvidiafb or Aug 20 23:25:26 tanghus kernel: [ 1155.554119] NVRM: rivatv was loaded and obtained ownership of the NVIDIA Aug 20 23:25:26 tanghus kernel: [ 1155.554121] NVRM: device(s). Aug 20 23:25:26 tanghus kernel: [ 1155.554126] NVRM: Try unloading the rivafb, nvidiafb or rivatv kernel module Aug 20 23:25:26 tanghus kernel: [ 1155.554128] NVRM: (and/or reconfigure your kernel without rivafb/nvidiafb Aug 20 23:25:26 tanghus kernel: [ 1155.554130] NVRM: support), then try loading the NVIDIA kernel module again. Aug 20 23:25:26 tanghus kernel: [ 1155.554134] NVRM: No NVIDIA graphics adapter probed! Aug 20 23:26:48 tanghus kernel: [ 1236.799048] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: nouveau_channel_free: freeing fifo 1 Aug 20 23:26:49 tanghus kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped. Another try gave this: Aug 20 23:42:03 tanghus kernel: [ 15.776089] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel. Aug 20 23:42:03 tanghus kernel: [ 15.776099] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint Aug 20 23:42:03 tanghus kernel: [ 16.185722] eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1 Aug 20 23:42:04 tanghus kernel: [ 16.970244] alloc irq_desc for 19 on node -1 Aug 20 23:42:04 tanghus kernel: [ 16.970251] alloc kstat_irqs on node -1 Aug 20 23:42:04 tanghus kernel: [ 16.970265] ENS1371 0000:00:08.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19 Aug 20 23:42:04 tanghus kernel: [ 16.970369] alloc irq_desc for 16 on node -1 Aug 20 23:42:04 tanghus kernel: [ 16.970372] alloc kstat_irqs on node -1 Aug 20 23:42:04 tanghus kernel: [ 16.970379] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 Aug 20 23:42:04 tanghus kernel: [ 16.970391] vgaarb: device changed decodes: PCI:0000:01:00.0,olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=io+mem Aug 20 23:42:04 tanghus kernel: [ 16.975584] NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel Module 96.43.17 Thu Apr 15 05:28:41 PDT 2010 Aug 20 23:42:05 tanghus kernel: [ 18.670296] agpgart-via 0000:00:00.0: AGP 2.0 bridge Aug 20 23:42:05 tanghus kernel: [ 18.670321] agpgart-via 0000:00:00.0: putting AGP V2 device into 4x mode Aug 20 23:42:05 tanghus kernel: [ 18.670377] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: putting AGP V2 device into 4x mode Aug 20 23:42:13 tanghus kernel: [ 26.396065] eth0: no IPv6 routers present Aug 20 23:42:22 tanghus kernel: [ 34.982968] agpgart-via 0000:00:00.0: AGP 2.0 bridge Aug 20 23:42:22 tanghus kernel: [ 34.982993] agpgart-via 0000:00:00.0: putting AGP V2 device into 4x mode Aug 20 23:42:22 tanghus kernel: [ 34.983049] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: putting AGP V2 device into 4x mode Aug 20 23:42:38 tanghus kernel: [ 50.902055] agpgart-via 0000:00:00.0: AGP 2.0 bridge Aug 20 23:42:38 tanghus kernel: [ 50.902080] agpgart-via 0000:00:00.0: putting AGP V2 device into 4x mode Aug 20 23:42:38 tanghus kernel: [ 50.902136] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: putting AGP V2 device into 4x mode Aug 20 23:45:03 tanghus kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped.