NVIDIA driver causes kernel freeze vol. II

[NoOp]

On 09/14/2010 09:37 AM, Thomas Olsen wrote:
> 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'm confused why you are blacklisting these. I do not have a 173 card (I
use 96) and my modules show:

$ modprobe -l | grep nvidia
kernel/drivers/char/agp/nvidia-agp.ko
kernel/drivers/video/backlight/mbp_nvidia_bl.ko
kernel/drivers/video/nvidia/nvidiafb.ko
updates/dkms/nvidia-96.ko

$ modprobe -l | grep riva
kernel/drivers/video/riva/rivafb.ko

$ modprobe -l | grep vga
kernel/drivers/video/vgastate.ko
kernel/drivers/video/svgalib.ko
kernel/drivers/video/vga16fb.ko
kernel/drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusbvga.ko

$ modprobe -l | grep nouveau
kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau.ko

Were I you I'd purge all nvidia bits (including
/home/<user>/.nvidia-settings-rc if present, restore your blacklist, put
nouveau back (as it doesn't hurt anything if you are not using it
anyway), rename your /etc/X11/xorg.conf to xorg.conf_dontwork, reboot,
and reinstall the nvidia driver suggested in
System|Administration|Hardware Drivers, and reboot. Then go back to
System|Administration|Hardware Drivers and ensure that the driver is
enabled and being used.

No critisism intended, but I think that you've basically borked your
drivers by mucking about so much.