NVIDIA driver causes kernel freeze vol. II

[Thomas Olsen]

The continuing story about my  troubles with the NVIDIA binary driver.

Today I spend a couple of hours trying again to make it work.

I removed the nouveau driver:

sudo aptitude purge xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

Blacklisted some modules as they had given me probs in earlier tries.

/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf:

blacklist vga16fb
blacklist nouveau
blacklist rivafb
blacklist nvidiafb
blacklist rivatv

I had had no success using the Hardware Drivers (jockey-kde) app so I booted into 
rescue mode and installed nvidia-173 for my GeForce FX 5900:

aptitude install nvidia-173

That went OK and installed driver, kernel modules etc.

I the ran nvidia-xconfig and rebooted and the computer froze totally after loading 
the module. Excerpt from kernel.log:

Sep 14 13:18:25 tanghus kernel: [    0.000000] Linux version 2.6.32-24-generic (buildd at palmer) (gcc version 4.4.3 (Ubuntu 4.4.3-4ubuntu5) ) 
                         #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Aug 20 14:24:04 UTC 2010 (Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.42-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5)
--[snip]----------------
Sep 14 13:18:27 tanghus kernel: [   19.138218] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
Sep 14 13:18:27 tanghus kernel: [   19.138228] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
Sep 14 13:18:27 tanghus kernel: [   20.490704]   alloc irq_desc for 19 on node -1
Sep 14 13:18:27 tanghus kernel: [   20.490711]   alloc kstat_irqs on node -1
Sep 14 13:18:27 tanghus kernel: [   20.490725] ENS1371 0000:00:08.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
Sep 14 13:18:27 tanghus kernel: [   20.490840]   alloc irq_desc for 16 on node -1
Sep 14 13:18:27 tanghus kernel: [   20.490843]   alloc kstat_irqs on node -1
Sep 14 13:18:27 tanghus kernel: [   20.490850] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
Sep 14 13:18:27 tanghus kernel: [   20.494142] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module  173.14.22  Sun Nov  8 20:26:31 PST 2009
Sep 14 13:18:36 tanghus kernel: [   29.092013] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
Sep 14 13:28:25 tanghus kernel: [  618.673830] usb 3-1: usbfs: interface 0 claimed by usblp while 'usb' sets config #1
Sep 14 13:29:37 tanghus kernel: [  690.333360] vgaarb: device changed decodes: PCI:0000:01:00.0,olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=io+mem
Sep 14 13:29:37 tanghus kernel: [  690.335717] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module  173.14.27  Tue Jul 13 20:39:52 PDT 2010
Sep 14 13:36:38 tanghus kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped.

Then I purged nvidia-173 and wanted to install the latest from 
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-ia32-173.14.27-driver.html

The installation and compilation went OK and the installation log showed nothing strange
but the result was the same:

Sep 14 13:38:35 tanghus kernel: [   18.919499] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
Sep 14 13:38:35 tanghus kernel: [   18.919507] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
Sep 14 13:38:35 tanghus kernel: [   19.750696] eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
Sep 14 13:38:36 tanghus kernel: [   20.445792]   alloc irq_desc for 19 on node -1
Sep 14 13:38:36 tanghus kernel: [   20.445799]   alloc kstat_irqs on node -1
Sep 14 13:38:36 tanghus kernel: [   20.445813] ENS1371 0000:00:08.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
Sep 14 13:38:36 tanghus kernel: [   20.445927]   alloc irq_desc for 16 on node -1
Sep 14 13:38:36 tanghus kernel: [   20.445930]   alloc kstat_irqs on node -1
Sep 14 13:38:36 tanghus kernel: [   20.445936] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
Sep 14 13:38:36 tanghus kernel: [   20.445950] vgaarb: device changed decodes: PCI:0000:01:00.0,olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=io+mem
Sep 14 13:38:36 tanghus kernel: [   20.449374] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module  173.14.27  Tue Jul 13 20:39:52 PDT 2010
Sep 14 13:38:46 tanghus kernel: [   30.404012] eth0: no IPv6 routers present

And the freeze...

Any ideas because I am out of them...?

BTW: X just produced a 0 byte Xorg.0.log file on both attempts.

-- 
Best regards / med venlig hilsen

Thomas Olsen