NVIDIA driver causes kernel freeze vol. II

[Thomas Olsen]

On Wednesday 15 September 2010 04:10:31 NoOp wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for the suggestions.
To start with I did as you suggested: I had a clean installation and installed 
the proposed NVIDIA 173 through Hardware Drivers. This caused the same freeze 
and some lines in kern.log from the nvidia module loading saying that rivafb 
or nvidiafb being loaded first could be the cause of this.
I googled this and found several suggestions on blacklisting these modules 
too.

As a side note I just noticed that I still had nouveau blacklisted even though 
I'm using the driver now..? Guess I just don't really grasp how KMS is 
working. Confused.

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Best regards / med venlig hilsen

Thomas Olsen