Fwd: [Bug 469470] Re: proprietary nvidia driver does not work under karmic
Leonard
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
Tue Nov 17 03:17:26 UTC 2009
NoOp wrote:
> On 11/16/2009 02:02 PM, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
>>
>>
>> --- On Mon, 11/16/09, NoOp...
>>> OK.
>>>
>>> When you login& use gnome instead of kde do you still have the
>>> same issues?
>>>
>>>
>> When the kdm login screen does come up, however i get it to come up,
>> I can login to anything listed in the drop down menu and the desktop
>> runs fine without issue. I just logged in to gnome and strangely
>> this time I had no error messages that the bug report lists. It
>> happens that way some times but for the most part I get those error
>> messages about not recognizing my monitor, keyboard or graphics card
>> and I have to go and start logging into the tty and suddenly the kdm
>> login screen pops up before even starting to login most of the time.
>> Very strange isn't it. Now, if you want me to switch to gdm login
>> and see what happens, let me know.
>
> It sounds like a race condition somewhere. Either that or you've got
> some hardware going boarderline. Run the usual memtest, check video card
> & CPU temps etc., etc.
>
It's a race alright; a race to see if I can fix it before the devs ever
start to work on the bug. IMHO, memtest is a waste of time. Have run
it many times without finding an error. I doubt hardware is going
borderling as whenever X starts normally or when I make it start by
dropping to a tty and waiting a little, kdm generally starts on its own
without me even logging on if I wait long enough. JMO. I can run kde all
day after logging in and never an issue comes up. Nvidia settings shows
the card core temp in thermal as 57-61 C with a slowdown threshold of
255 C. Looks good to me.
I added the system monitor-temp plasma widget which shows 3 icons in the
tray each showing the same info and numbers. Temp1 shows 27-30C, temp3
shows 35-36C and the temperature shows 54.2 on all three icons.
Know what they means but essentially the same info when I had it
installed before. I don't but they don't look dangerously high. I
installed computertemp, a gnome program but haven't got it to work yet.
Let me logout and see. Well, that didn't help; got any idea how to run
computertemp or can suggest a better program(kde preferred) to check cpu
temperatures.
> You might also try connecting via an analog cable if you have one to see
> if the dvi is an issue... or, set to login automatically, boot up
> _without_ the monitor powered on/connected& when you see the machine
> settle, power up the monitor. You're screen will most likely be set to
> 800x600 at that point (reset it using System|Display& don't forget to
> set the proper refresh rate 60hz, but try a few others just to test).
> It will be interesting to see if: 1) the autologin makes it through
> the process, and 2) if resetting via System|Display works properly. Then
> try with the nvidia-settings utility.
>
First, let me find an analog usb cable if I can. The HDMI cable I
bought wasn't a cheap one and I will be upset if it is bad. I doubt it
is. I'll try the auto login tonight but here is some new info I added
the the bug report:
I rmed xorg.conf and got the message shown on the bug report but can't
remember whether it was on the first reboot or not. Anyway,
nvidia-setting wouldn't work so I ran nvidia-xconfig as it said to do
which put a new but old style xorg.conf file in place and so far I've
rebooted 3 times with any error messages. The data is on the bug report
if you want to see.
> Then try the autologin w/monitor powered on& see if there is a difference.
>
>> BTW, you don't have an nvidia
>> card or onboard on any of your machines, I suppose. If you do and
>> are using the -185 driver do you ever see the bug listed messages on
>> startup?
>
> My nVidia cards are old NV25GL [Quadro4 900 XGL] cards& use the -96
> drivers. Maybe you should downgrade to one of those& a 32bit CPU :-)
>
A better option IMHO, is for you to install nvidia-glx-185 on your old
NV25gl and run it for a while rebooting ofter and see if you have any X
issues. You can post your findings to the bug report. So far there is
me and the OP and I have already put more on the report than he has and
never a followup from him. I fear the bug will never be addressed if
there are only two people having issues. Help please.
>
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