<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Goh Lip <<a href="mailto:g.lip@gmx.com">g.lip@gmx.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">On 08/24/2010 06:48 PM, Thomas Olsen 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. > I tried looking through the archives and Google but couldn't find any > answers. > > In the hope that someone can help </div>Try to boot up by appending "nouveau.modeset=0" (no quotes marks) to the linux line of grub and delete "splash" and "quiet". If this works, then you need to redo your video driver, purge first so you have a fresh xorg.conf file. </blockquote><div> 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. Thanks anyways :-) Â </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> Regards - Goh Lip ps: I assume this is not on maverick, there is a nvidia bug there. </blockquote><div> No it's 10.4 </div></div> Best regards Thomas Olsen