<div dir="ltr">"Open source" is not the problem. The Noveau developers do not have support from Nvidia so they have to reverse engineer the specifics of each chip. That includes recreating the workarounds for bugs in each revision (stepping) of the chips.<br> </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 11:36 AM, mr havenstance <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:havenstance@spockclan.com" target="_blank">havenstance@spockclan.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u> <div> Jeff, thank you your solution worked like a charm. seems that nvidia really hates those noveau drivers. Probably because they are open source would be my only guess<br><br> <div> </div><br><br><blockquote style="PADDING-LEFT:5px;MARGIN-LEFT:5px;BORDER-LEFT:#0000ff 2px solid;MARGIN-RIGHT:0px"><div>-----Original Message-----<br><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:jhansonxi@gmail.com" target="_blank">jhansonxi@gmail.com</a><br> <b>Sent:</b> Wed, 8 Jan 2014 10:56:25 -0500<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:ubuntu-us-mi@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ubuntu-us-mi@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ubuntu-us-mi] using Ubuntu<br><br></div><div> <div><div dir="ltr">Change the boot options in grub:<br><a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions" target="_blank">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions</a><br>Try temporarily specifying "xforcevesa" or "nomodeset", either of which should cause it to not use the noveau drivers. Graphics will be very slow but adequate for getting a better driver installed.<br> </div><div><br><br><div>On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 10:19 AM, mr havenstance <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:havenstance@spockclan.com" target="_blank">havenstance@spockclan.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote>I havent, I can't get it to let me in long enough to do much of anything. Is there any way to do that from the shell? cuz as long as I ctrl, alt, f1 it will run all day. soon as i boot into desktop though it crashes within seconds. all logs point to noveau errors, it did it with my desktop too which has two nvidia graphics cards. however not near as bad because I was able to stick in an AMD card and load the latest nvidia drivers up for it.<br> <div><div><br> > -----Original Message-----<br> > From: <a href="mailto:craig@decafbad.net" target="_blank">craig@decafbad.net</a><br> > Sent: Wed, 08 Jan 2014 09:54:46 -0500<br> > To: <a href="mailto:ubuntu-us-mi@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ubuntu-us-mi@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> > Subject: Re: [ubuntu-us-mi] using Ubuntu<br> ><br> > On 01/08/2014 09:51 AM, mr havenstance wrote:<br> >> Awesome, unfortunately my server cannot run Ubuntu server. Its got a<br> >> Nvidia Chipset and a Nvidia Graphics Card and it does not like the<br> >> noveau drivers. They for some reason lock it up shortly after they load.<br> >> my desktop runs Ubuntu with a Win 8 side partition. I could probably get<br> >> rid of the windows partition now since most things do run on Ubuntu but<br> >> at this point I'd rather hang onto it just in case. At some point this<br> >> week I'll probably remove win permanently but right now its kinda<br> >> necessary until someone comes up with a way to run the win32 version of<br> >> steam so I can play my BL2 :). Other then that alot of my games already<br> >> have native linux clients like Killing Floor I was impressed to see that<br> >> and also to see how well it ran. My fiancee uses windows though and I<br> >> probably won't get her to switch anytime soon im afraid.<br> >><br> ><br> > Have you given the NVidia proprietary drivers a try? They're actually<br> > pretty solid on my desktop machines, but it does mean running a non-free<br> > component on my machine. 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