<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Thomas Olsen <<a href="mailto:tanghus@gmail.com">tanghus@gmail.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;"> 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. </blockquote></div> 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