Re: Trouble with Nvidia driver
Hi!
I'd like to thank the kind replies of Bob and Daniel. With regard to their suggestions, they might like to know that:
- changing 'nvidia' for 'vesa' unfortunately didn't help;
- I had memtest86+ run for a long time, and no ram errors were reported.
But Bob's guess that perhaps it is not a driver-related problem may be correct. Today I finally decided to try Nvidia installer, and had the newest driver installed. And - unfortunately - the system continues to freeze. Therefore, the cause must lie somewhere else (if it is not a bug).
I'll keep trying, but my ideas are running out. I would greatly appreciate fresh suggestions from the community.
Best regards,
Eduardo
--- Em sex, 13/4/12, daniel jimenez <daniel.jimenez.gomez@gmail.com> escreveu:
> De: daniel jimenez <daniel.jimenez.gomez@gmail.com>
> Assunto: Re: Trouble with Nvidia driver
> Para: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Data: Sexta-feira, 13 de Abril de 2012, 17:34
> I recently had a similar problem with
> a 9300 gs (which I understand to
> be pretty much the same + dx9 support or smth).
>
> Gdm3 would never start after installing a modded kernel. As
> a
> workaround, try changing 'nvidia' for 'vesa' in the grub
> config file
> and see where that leads. Maybe you can boot like that,
> there wont be
> any video acceleration though.
>
> Maybe that kernel version is incompatible with the provided
> nvidia blob?
>
> Hope it helps.
>
> Daniel
>
> On 4/13/12, Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com>
> wrote:
> > Eduardo Bearzoti wrote:
> >> Video card (lspci output):
> >> nvidia Corporation G86[GeForce 8400 GS] (rev a1)
> >
> > I have a system with the same graphics chip and it is
> working fine for
> > me at 1600x1200 with the default driver. I am a
> little embarrassed to
> > say that after looking at the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file
> I am not sure
> > which driver it is actually using. I do not have
> any special drivers
> > (e.g. nouveau or nvidia) installed. It has been
> fine and I haven't
> > needed to look at it. It worked out of the box by
> default.
> >
> >> when attempting to login trough gdm3, the whole
> system freezes again.
> >
> > Since you are reporting system freezes I am concerned
> that this may be
> > a ram problem. If I were looking at this I would
> install memtest86+
> > as a bootable system. Then reboot into memtest
> and let it run through
> > several cycles to verify that you are not having a
> system memory
> > problem.
> >
> > # apt-get install memtest86+
> > ...
> > Setting up memtest86+ (4.10-1.1) ...
> > Generating grub.cfg ...
> > ...
> > Found memtest86+ image:
> /memtest86+.bin
> >
> > That will configure grub automatically for a bootable
> memtest
> > environment. Reboot and it can be selected.
> >
> > If I ever find a problem with ram then I am always very
> thankful
> > because replacing ram is pretty inexpensive and a much
> easier thing to
> > do than most other repairs or chasing down driver
> problems.
> >
> > Good luck!
> >
> > Bob
> >
>
>
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>
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