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#1 2006-05-27 23:28:45

gaggio
Member
From: Italy
Registered: 2006-05-27
Posts: 11

nvidia drivers freeze my pc!

This is my first message on this forum, so I hope you'll be happy to have another arch adept here! wink

Going to the topic of this post, I'm asking your help 'cause I have serious problems with nvidia drivers. I have a Nvidia geforce 420 Go on my toshiba notebook, so I installed nvidia drivers with pacman, and did all the things that arch's wiki told me. When I type "startx" I get a black screen, and nothing seem to happen from that moment. The pc is completely frozen, I can't even exit Xorg with alt+ctrl+backspace. The only way is hold down the power button for five seconds to force the shutdown.

I tried several options in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf, the last configuration is the one following here:

# XFree86 4 configuration created by pyxf86config

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Default Layout"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "DevInputMice" "AlwaysCore"
EndSection

Section "Files"
# RgbPath is the location of the RGB database.  Note, this is the name of the 
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db").  There is normally
# no need to change the default.
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
    #FontPath     "unix/:7100"
    RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType"
    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ghostscript"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load  "dbe"
    Load  "extmod"
    Load  "fbdevhw"
    Load  "glx"
    Load  "record"
    Load  "freetype"
    Load  "type1"
    Load  "v41"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
#    Option    "Xleds"        "1 2 3"
# To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
#    Option    "XkbDisable"
# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
# lines below (which are the defaults).  For example, for a non-U.S.
# keyboard, you will probably want to use:
#    Option    "XkbModel"    "pc102"
# If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
#    Option    "XkbModel"    "microsoft"
#
# Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
# For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
#    Option    "XkbLayout"    "de"
# or:
#    Option    "XkbLayout"    "de"
#    Option    "XkbVariant"    "nodeadkeys"
#
# If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
# control keys, use:
#    Option    "XkbOptions"    "ctrl:swapcaps"
# Or if you just want both to be control, use:
#    Option    "XkbOptions"    "ctrl:nocaps"
#
    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "keyboard"
    Option        "XkbRules" "xfree86"
    Option        "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option        "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Mouse0"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option        "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
    Option        "Device" "/dev/mouse"
    Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    Option        "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# If the normal CorePointer mouse is not a USB mouse then
# this input device can be used in AlwaysCore mode to let you
# also use USB mice at the same time.
    Identifier  "DevInputMice"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option        "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
    Option        "Device" "/dev/mouse"
    Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    Option        "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "S1410-S173 TFT"
    VendorName   "Toshiba"
    ModelName    "Satellite 1410-S173"
    HorizSync    31.5 - 48.5
    VertRefresh  55.0 - 90.0
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Videocard0"
    Driver      "nvidia"
    VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
    BoardName   "NVIDIA GeForce 4 (generic)"
    Option        "X-KXCONFIG-VideoRam" "16384"
    Option        "IgnoreEDID" "yes"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device     "Videocard0"
    Monitor    "S1410-S173 TFT"
    DefaultDepth     24
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth     32
        Modes    "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth     24
        Modes    "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth     8
        Modes    "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth     16
        Modes    "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
    Group        0
    Mode         0666
EndSection

I point out that I found this file in a page describing the configuration used on the same notebook I have. They used a different distro, but I cannot imagine why shouldn't it work...

Maybe it would be useful to post a log?

Thanks to you all!  smile

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#2 2006-05-27 23:41:28

twiistedkaos
Member
Registered: 2006-05-20
Posts: 666

Re: nvidia drivers freeze my pc!

First thing, Comment or remove completely this section:

Section "DRI"
   Group        0
   Mode         0666
EndSection 

Example:

#Section "DRI"
#   Group        0
#   Mode         0666
#EndSection 

Reboot, then try to startx, view the log file and tell su what's in there.

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#3 2006-05-27 23:56:39

gaggio
Member
From: Italy
Registered: 2006-05-27
Posts: 11

Re: nvidia drivers freeze my pc!

Nothing changes!  :x  Same freeze as before...
This is my /var/log/Xorg.0.log:

X Window System Version 7.0.0
Release Date: 21 December 2005
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.0
Build Operating System:Linux 2.6.16-ARCH i686
Current Operating System: Linux archlinuxgaggio 2.6.15-ARCH #1 PREEMPT Wed Mar 22 18:39:30 CET 2006 i686
Build Date: 04 May 2006
    Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
    to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
    (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
    (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sun May 28 01:49:53 2006
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(==) ServerLayout "Default Layout"
(**) |-->Screen "Screen0" (0)
(**) |   |-->Monitor "S1410-S173 TFT"
(**) |   |-->Device "Videocard0"
(**) |-->Input Device "Mouse0"
(**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard0"
(**) Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
(**) XKB: rules: "xfree86"
(**) Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
(**) XKB: model: "pc105"
(**) Option "XkbLayout" "us"
(**) XKB: layout: "us"
(==) Keyboard: CustomKeycode disabled
(**) |-->Input Device "DevInputMice"
(WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" does not exist.
    Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc" does not exist.
    Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType" does not exist.
    Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" does not exist.
    Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo" does not exist.
    Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ghostscript" does not exist.
    Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) FontPath is completely invalid.  Using compiled-in default.
(==) FontPath set to "/usr/share/fonts/misc,/usr/share/fonts/75dpi,/usr/share/fonts/100dpi,/usr/share/fonts/TTF,/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
(**) RgbPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
(==) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
Couldn't open RGB_DB '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb'
(II) Module ABI versions:
    X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.2
    X.Org Video Driver: 0.8
    X.Org XInput driver : 0.5
    X.Org Server Extension : 0.2
    X.Org Font Renderer : 0.4
(II) Loader running on linux
(II) LoadModule: "bitmap"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/fonts/libbitmap.so
(II) Module bitmap: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
    compiled for 7.0.0, module version = 1.0.0
    Module class: X.Org Font Renderer
    ABI class: X.Org Font Renderer, version 0.4
(II) Loading font Bitmap
(II) LoadModule: "pcidata"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libpcidata.so
(II) Module pcidata: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
    compiled for 7.0.0, module version = 1.0.0
    ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.8
(--) using VT number 7

(II) PCI: PCI scan (all values are in hex)
(II) PCI: 00:00:0: chip 8086,1a30 card 1179,0001 rev 05 class 06,00,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:01:0: chip 8086,1a31 card 0000,0000 rev 05 class 06,04,00 hdr 01
(II) PCI: 00:1d:0: chip 8086,2482 card 1179,0001 rev 02 class 0c,03,00 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:1d:1: chip 8086,2484 card 1179,0001 rev 02 class 0c,03,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:1e:0: chip 8086,2448 card 0000,0000 rev 42 class 06,04,00 hdr 01
(II) PCI: 00:1f:0: chip 8086,248c card 0000,0000 rev 02 class 06,01,00 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:1f:1: chip 8086,248a card 1179,0001 rev 02 class 01,01,8a hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:1f:5: chip 8086,2485 card 1179,0001 rev 02 class 04,01,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:1f:6: chip 8086,2486 card 1179,0001 rev 02 class 07,03,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 01:00:0: chip 10de,0175 card 1179,0001 rev a3 class 03,00,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 02:08:0: chip 8086,1031 card 1179,0001 rev 42 class 02,00,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 02:0b:0: chip 1179,0617 card d000,0000 rev 32 class 06,07,00 hdr 82
(II) PCI: 02:0b:1: chip 1179,0617 card d800,0000 rev 32 class 06,07,00 hdr 82
(II) PCI: 03:00:0: chip 1814,0201 card 185f,22a0 rev 01 class 02,80,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: End of PCI scan
(II) Host-to-PCI bridge:
(II) Bus 0: bridge is at (0:0:0), (0,0,7), BCTRL: 0x0008 (VGA_EN is set)
(II) Bus 0 I/O range:
    [0] -1    0    0x00000000 - 0x0000ffff (0x10000) IX[b]
(II) Bus 0 non-prefetchable memory range:
    [0] -1    0    0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[b]
(II) Bus 0 prefetchable memory range:
    [0] -1    0    0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[b]
(II) PCI-to-PCI bridge:
(II) Bus 1: bridge is at (0:1:0), (0,1,1), BCTRL: 0x0008 (VGA_EN is set)
(II) Bus 1 non-prefetchable memory range:
    [0] -1    0    0xfd000000 - 0xfdffffff (0x1000000) MX[b]
(II) Bus 1 prefetchable memory range:
    [0] -1    0    0xdbf00000 - 0xdfffffff (0x4100000) MX[b]
(II) PCI-to-PCI bridge:
(II) Bus 2: bridge is at (0:30:0), (0,2,5), BCTRL: 0x0000 (VGA_EN is cleared)
(II) Bus 2 I/O range:
    [0] -1    0    0x0000d000 - 0x0000dfff (0x1000) IX[b]
(II) Bus 2 non-prefetchable memory range:
    [0] -1    0    0xfce00000 - 0xfcefffff (0x100000) MX[b]
(II) Bus 2 prefetchable memory range:
    [0] -1    0    0x30000000 - 0x33ffffff (0x4000000) MX[b]
(II) PCI-to-ISA bridge:
(II) Bus -1: bridge is at (0:31:0), (0,-1,-1), BCTRL: 0x0008 (VGA_EN is set)
(II) PCI-to-CardBus bridge:
(II) Bus 3: bridge is at (2:11:0), (2,3,6), BCTRL: 0x0500 (VGA_EN is cleared)
(II) Bus 3 I/O range:
    [0] -1    0    0x0000d000 - 0x0000d0ff (0x100) IX[b]
    [1] -1    0    0x0000d400 - 0x0000d4ff (0x100) IX[b]
(II) Bus 3 prefetchable memory range:
    [0] -1    0    0x30000000 - 0x31ffffff (0x2000000) MX[b]
(II) PCI-to-CardBus bridge:
(II) Bus 7: bridge is at (2:11:1), (2,7,10), BCTRL: 0x0580 (VGA_EN is cleared)
(II) Bus 7 I/O range:
    [0] -1    0    0x0000d800 - 0x0000d8ff (0x100) IX[b]
    [1] -1    0    0x0000dc00 - 0x0000dcff (0x100) IX[b]
(II) Bus 7 prefetchable memory range:
    [0] -1    0    0x32000000 - 0x33ffffff (0x2000000) MX[b]
(--) PCI:*(1:0:0) nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 420 Go] rev 163, Mem @ 0xfd000000/24, 0xdc000000/26, 0xdbf80000/19
(II) Addressable bus resource ranges are
    [0] -1    0    0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[b]
    [1] -1    0    0x00000000 - 0x0000ffff (0x10000) IX[b]
(II) OS-reported resource ranges:
    [0] -1    0    0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[b](B)
    [1] -1    0    0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[b]E(B)
    [2] -1    0    0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[b]
    [3] -1    0    0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[b]
    [4] -1    0    0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[b]
    [5] -1    0    0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[b]
    [6] -1    0    0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[b]
(II) PCI Memory resource overlap reduced 0xe0000000 from 0xefffffff to 0xdfffffff
(II) Active PCI resource ranges:
    [0] -1    0    0x36000000 - 0x36001fff (0x2000) MX[b]
    [1] -1    0    0xfceff000 - 0xfcefffff (0x1000) MX[b]
    [2] -1    0    0x34000000 - 0x340003ff (0x400) MX[b]
    [3] -1    0    0xe0000000 - 0xdfffffff (0x0) MX[b]O
    [4] -1    0    0xdbf80000 - 0xdbffffff (0x80000) MX[b](B)
    [5] -1    0    0xdc000000 - 0xdfffffff (0x4000000) MX[b](B)
    [6] -1    0    0xfd000000 - 0xfdffffff (0x1000000) MX[b](B)
    [7] -1    0    0x0000df40 - 0x0000df7f (0x40) IX[b]
    [8] -1    0    0x0000c980 - 0x0000c9ff (0x80) IX[b]
    [9] -1    0    0x0000ca00 - 0x0000caff (0x100) IX[b]
    [10] -1    0    0x0000cdc0 - 0x0000cdff (0x40) IX[b]
    [11] -1    0    0x0000ce00 - 0x0000ceff (0x100) IX[b]
    [12] -1    0    0x0000cfa0 - 0x0000cfaf (0x10) IX[b]
    [13] -1    0    0x0000cfe4 - 0x0000cfe4 (0x1) IX[b]
    [14] -1    0    0x0000cfe8 - 0x0000cfe8 (0x1) IX[b]
    [15] -1    0    0x0000cff4 - 0x0000cff4 (0x1) IX[b]
    [16] -1    0    0x0000cff8 - 0x0000cff8 (0x1) IX[b]
    [17] -1    0    0x0000ef80 - 0x0000ef9f (0x20) IX[b]
    [18] -1    0    0x0000efe0 - 0x0000efff (0x20) IX[b]
(II) Active PCI resource ranges after removing overlaps:
    [0] -1    0    0x36000000 - 0x36001fff (0x2000) MX[b]
    [1] -1    0    0xfceff000 - 0xfcefffff (0x1000) MX[b]
    [2] -1    0    0x34000000 - 0x340003ff (0x400) MX[b]
    [3] -1    0    0xe0000000 - 0xdfffffff (0x0) MX[b]O
    [4] -1    0    0xdbf80000 - 0xdbffffff (0x80000) MX[b](B)
    [5] -1    0    0xdc000000 - 0xdfffffff (0x4000000) MX[b](B)
    [6] -1    0    0xfd000000 - 0xfdffffff (0x1000000) MX[b](B)
    [7] -1    0    0x0000df40 - 0x0000df7f (0x40) IX[b]
    [8] -1    0    0x0000c980 - 0x0000c9ff (0x80) IX[b]
    [9] -1    0    0x0000ca00 - 0x0000caff (0x100) IX[b]
    [10] -1    0    0x0000cdc0 - 0x0000cdff (0x40) IX[b]
    [11] -1    0    0x0000ce00 - 0x0000ceff (0x100) IX[b]
    [12] -1    0    0x0000cfa0 - 0x0000cfaf (0x10) IX[b]
    [13] -1    0    0x0000cfe4 - 0x0000cfe4 (0x1) IX[b]
    [14] -1    0    0x0000cfe8 - 0x0000cfe8 (0x1) IX[b]
    [15] -1    0    0x0000cff4 - 0x0000cff4 (0x1) IX[b]
    [16] -1    0    0x0000cff8 - 0x0000cff8 (0x1) IX[b]
    [17] -1    0    0x0000ef80 - 0x0000ef9f (0x20) IX[b]
    [18] -1    0    0x0000efe0 - 0x0000efff (0x20) IX[b]
(II) OS-reported resource ranges after removing overlaps with PCI:
    [0] -1    0    0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[b](B)
    [1] -1    0    0x00100000 - 0x33ffffff (0x33f00000) MX[b]E(B)
    [2] -1    0    0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[b]
    [3] -1    0    0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[b]
    [4] -1    0    0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[b]
    [5] -1    0    0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[b]
    [6] -1    0    0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[b]
(II) All system resource ranges:
    [0] -1    0    0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[b](B)
    [1] -1    0    0x00100000 - 0x33ffffff (0x33f00000) MX[b]E(B)
    [2] -1    0    0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[b]
    [3] -1    0    0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[b]
    [4] -1    0    0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[b]
    [5] -1    0    0x36000000 - 0x36001fff (0x2000) MX[b]
    [6] -1    0    0xfceff000 - 0xfcefffff (0x1000) MX[b]
    [7] -1    0    0x34000000 - 0x340003ff (0x400) MX[b]
    [8] -1    0    0xe0000000 - 0xdfffffff (0x0) MX[b]O
    [9] -1    0    0xdbf80000 - 0xdbffffff (0x80000) MX[b](B)
    [10] -1    0    0xdc000000 - 0xdfffffff (0x4000000) MX[b](B)
    [11] -1    0    0xfd000000 - 0xfdffffff (0x1000000) MX[b](B)
    [12] -1    0    0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[b]
    [13] -1    0    0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[b]
    [14] -1    0    0x0000df40 - 0x0000df7f (0x40) IX[b]
    [15] -1    0    0x0000c980 - 0x0000c9ff (0x80) IX[b]
    [16] -1    0    0x0000ca00 - 0x0000caff (0x100) IX[b]
    [17] -1    0    0x0000cdc0 - 0x0000cdff (0x40) IX[b]
    [18] -1    0    0x0000ce00 - 0x0000ceff (0x100) IX[b]
    [19] -1    0    0x0000cfa0 - 0x0000cfaf (0x10) IX[b]
    [20] -1    0    0x0000cfe4 - 0x0000cfe4 (0x1) IX[b]
    [21] -1    0    0x0000cfe8 - 0x0000cfe8 (0x1) IX[b]
    [22] -1    0    0x0000cff4 - 0x0000cff4 (0x1) IX[b]
    [23] -1    0    0x0000cff8 - 0x0000cff8 (0x1) IX[b]
    [24] -1    0    0x0000ef80 - 0x0000ef9f (0x20) IX[b]
    [25] -1    0    0x0000efe0 - 0x0000efff (0x20) IX[b]
(II) LoadModule: "dbe"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdbe.so
(II) Module dbe: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
    compiled for 7.0.0, module version = 1.0.0
    Module class: X.Org Server Extension
    ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.2
(II) Loading extension DOUBLE-BUFFER
(II) LoadModule: "extmod"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libextmod.so
(II) Module extmod: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
    compiled for 7.0.0, module version = 1.0.0
    Module class: X.Org Server Extension
    ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.2
(II) Loading extension SHAPE
(II) Loading extension MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD
(II) Loading extension BIG-REQUESTS
(II) Loading extension SYNC
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
(II) Loading extension XC-MISC
(II) Loading extension XFree86-VidModeExtension
(II) Loading extension XFree86-Misc
(II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA
(II) Loading extension DPMS
(II) Loading extension TOG-CUP
(II) Loading extension Extended-Visual-Information
(II) Loading extension XVideo
(II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation
(II) Loading extension X-Resource
(II) LoadModule: "fbdevhw"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/linux/libfbdevhw.so
(II) Module fbdevhw: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
    compiled for 7.0.0, module version = 0.0.2
    ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.8
(II) LoadModule: "glx"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
(II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
    compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.8178
    Module class: XFree86 Server Extension
    ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.1
(II) Loading extension GLX
(II) LoadModule: "record"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/librecord.so
(II) Module record: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
    compiled for 7.0.0, module version = 1.13.0
    Module class: X.Org Server Extension
    ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.2
(II) Loading extension RECORD
(II) LoadModule: "freetype"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/fonts/libfreetype.so
(II) Module freetype: vendor="X.Org Foundation & the After X-TT Project"
    compiled for 7.0.0, module version = 2.1.0
    Module class: X.Org Font Renderer
    ABI class: X.Org Font Renderer, version 0.4
(II) Loading font FreeType
(II) LoadModule: "type1"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/fonts/libtype1.so
(II) Module type1: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
    compiled for 7.0.0, module version = 1.0.2
    Module class: X.Org Font Renderer
    ABI class: X.Org Font Renderer, version 0.4
(II) Loading font Type1
(II) LoadModule: "v41"
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module v41
(II) UnloadModule: "v41"
(EE) Failed to load module "v41" (module does not exist, 0)
(II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
(II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
    compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.8178
    Module class: XFree86 Video Driver
(II) LoadModule: "mouse"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/mouse_drv.so
(II) Module mouse: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
    compiled for 7.0.0, module version = 1.0.4
    Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
    ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 0.5
(II) LoadModule: "keyboard"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/keyboard_drv.so
(II) Module keyboard: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
    compiled for 7.0.0, module version = 1.0.0
    Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
    ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 0.5
(II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver  1.0-8178  Wed Dec 14 16:24:14 PST 2005
(II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0
(--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device
(--) Chipset NVIDIA GPU found
(II) resource ranges after xf86ClaimFixedResources() call:
    [0] -1    0    0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[b](B)
    [1] -1    0    0x00100000 - 0x33ffffff (0x33f00000) MX[b]E(B)
    [2] -1    0    0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[b]
    [3] -1    0    0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[b]
    [4] -1    0    0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[b]
    [5] -1    0    0x36000000 - 0x36001fff (0x2000) MX[b]
    [6] -1    0    0xfceff000 - 0xfcefffff (0x1000) MX[b]
    [7] -1    0    0x34000000 - 0x340003ff (0x400) MX[b]
    [8] -1    0    0xe0000000 - 0xdfffffff (0x0) MX[b]O
    [9] -1    0    0xdbf80000 - 0xdbffffff (0x80000) MX[b](B)
    [10] -1    0    0xdc000000 - 0xdfffffff (0x4000000) MX[b](B)
    [11] -1    0    0xfd000000 - 0xfdffffff (0x1000000) MX[b](B)
    [12] -1    0    0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[b]
    [13] -1    0    0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[b]
    [14] -1    0    0x0000df40 - 0x0000df7f (0x40) IX[b]
    [15] -1    0    0x0000c980 - 0x0000c9ff (0x80) IX[b]
    [16] -1    0    0x0000ca00 - 0x0000caff (0x100) IX[b]
    [17] -1    0    0x0000cdc0 - 0x0000cdff (0x40) IX[b]
    [18] -1    0    0x0000ce00 - 0x0000ceff (0x100) IX[b]
    [19] -1    0    0x0000cfa0 - 0x0000cfaf (0x10) IX[b]
    [20] -1    0    0x0000cfe4 - 0x0000cfe4 (0x1) IX[b]
    [21] -1    0    0x0000cfe8 - 0x0000cfe8 (0x1) IX[b]
    [22] -1    0    0x0000cff4 - 0x0000cff4 (0x1) IX[b]
    [23] -1    0    0x0000cff8 - 0x0000cff8 (0x1) IX[b]
    [24] -1    0    0x0000ef80 - 0x0000ef9f (0x20) IX[b]
    [25] -1    0    0x0000efe0 - 0x0000efff (0x20) IX[b]
(II) resource ranges after probing:
    [0] -1    0    0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[b](B)
    [1] -1    0    0x00100000 - 0x33ffffff (0x33f00000) MX[b]E(B)
    [2] -1    0    0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[b]
    [3] -1    0    0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[b]
    [4] -1    0    0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[b]
    [5] -1    0    0x36000000 - 0x36001fff (0x2000) MX[b]
    [6] -1    0    0xfceff000 - 0xfcefffff (0x1000) MX[b]
    [7] -1    0    0x34000000 - 0x340003ff (0x400) MX[b]
    [8] -1    0    0xe0000000 - 0xdfffffff (0x0) MX[b]O
    [9] -1    0    0xdbf80000 - 0xdbffffff (0x80000) MX[b](B)
    [10] -1    0    0xdc000000 - 0xdfffffff (0x4000000) MX[b](B)
    [11] -1    0    0xfd000000 - 0xfdffffff (0x1000000) MX[b](B)
    [12] 0    0    0x000a0000 - 0x000affff (0x10000) MS[b]
    [13] 0    0    0x000b0000 - 0x000b7fff (0x8000) MS[b]
    [14] 0    0    0x000b8000 - 0x000bffff (0x8000) MS[b]
    [15] -1    0    0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[b]
    [16] -1    0    0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[b]
    [17] -1    0    0x0000df40 - 0x0000df7f (0x40) IX[b]
    [18] -1    0    0x0000c980 - 0x0000c9ff (0x80) IX[b]
    [19] -1    0    0x0000ca00 - 0x0000caff (0x100) IX[b]
    [20] -1    0    0x0000cdc0 - 0x0000cdff (0x40) IX[b]
    [21] -1    0    0x0000ce00 - 0x0000ceff (0x100) IX[b]
    [22] -1    0    0x0000cfa0 - 0x0000cfaf (0x10) IX[b]
    [23] -1    0    0x0000cfe4 - 0x0000cfe4 (0x1) IX[b]
    [24] -1    0    0x0000cfe8 - 0x0000cfe8 (0x1) IX[b]
    [25] -1    0    0x0000cff4 - 0x0000cff4 (0x1) IX[b]
    [26] -1    0    0x0000cff8 - 0x0000cff8 (0x1) IX[b]
    [27] -1    0    0x0000ef80 - 0x0000ef9f (0x20) IX[b]
    [28] -1    0    0x0000efe0 - 0x0000efff (0x20) IX[b]
    [29] 0    0    0xdbf003b0 - 0xdbf003bb (0xc) IS[b]
    [30] 0    0    0xdbf003c0 - 0xdbf003df (0x20) IS[b]
(II) Setting vga for screen 0.
(**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
(==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888
(==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
(==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
(**) NVIDIA(0): Option "IgnoreEDID" "yes"
(**) NVIDIA(0): Ignoring EDIDs
(--) NVIDIA(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xDC000000
(--) NVIDIA(0): MMIO registers at 0xFD000000

Thanks however for your immediate reply!  smile

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#4 2006-05-28 00:04:15

twiistedkaos
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Registered: 2006-05-20
Posts: 666

Re: nvidia drivers freeze my pc!

Only error I see is in the modules section comment out this line

Load "v41"

although that shouldn't cause the freeze, it's not needed.

one thing I was cursious about was this line:

Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0 

try changing it to

Screen  "Screen0"

If that does work:

xorgcfg -textmode

This will bring an on screen text mode configuration wizard for xorg, just follow it's instructions the best that you can, then try to startx, if that fails view the xorg.conf file that it generated and make sure it detected nvidia, if not add that again, save, startx again.

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#5 2006-05-28 00:30:13

gaggio
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From: Italy
Registered: 2006-05-27
Posts: 11

Re: nvidia drivers freeze my pc!

Well, the correction in the screen line had no effect. So I ran xorgcfg -textmode and made the choices. It did not list official nvidia drivers, so I chose "nv". Then I tried to startx, but I had an error message that said that "nv module does not exist". So I edited my xorg.conf to use "nvidia" instead of "nv". Then, on startx, my pc froze again!

If I cannot manage to use official drivers, I would also be happy to use "nv" if they can make me use openGL. But I don't know how to install that module...

Have you got any other idea for the official drivers?

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#6 2006-05-28 00:35:29

twiistedkaos
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Registered: 2006-05-20
Posts: 666

Re: nvidia drivers freeze my pc!

Hmmm this is odd, and no... I've never tried installing the official drivers from the nvidia site. The ones on the repo should work perefectly fine since all they are is a packaged version of the nvidia drivers and your card is supported.

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#7 2006-05-28 08:02:02

moeroen
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From: Netherlands
Registered: 2005-07-16
Posts: 9

Re: nvidia drivers freeze my pc!

as from xorg 7.0 the fonts are in a different place, so if you're using that
change yr fontpaths. here's my fontpatch section:

FontPath    "/usr/share//fonts/misc:unscaled"
    FontPath    "/usr/share//fonts/cyrillic"
    FontPath    "/usr/share//fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath    "/usr/share//fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath    "/usr/share//fonts/Type1"
    FontPath    "/usr/share//fonts/misc"
    FontPath    "/usr/share//fonts/100dpi"
    FontPath    "/usr/share//fonts/75dpi"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"

maybe this will do the trick

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#8 2006-05-28 09:11:46

gaggio
Member
From: Italy
Registered: 2006-05-27
Posts: 11

Re: nvidia drivers freeze my pc!

I tried to correct the font section as you suggested, but unfortunately nothing changes...  :cry:
Is the double slash in the paths ok?

However, I must tell you that some months ago I tried to install Ubuntu and the drivers worked, even if there were some problems in setting the correct resolution. So it should not be an incompatibility with those drivers from nvidia...

I don't think I will try Ubuntu again however!

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#9 2006-05-28 10:24:49

Lone_Wolf
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From: Netherlands, Europe
Registered: 2005-10-04
Posts: 11,922

Re: nvidia drivers freeze my pc!

for the nv drivers :

pacman -S xf86-video-nv

I recommend installing them , and testing as root if you can start X11 that way.

Yes, i know about the issues with using X as root (and agree with them) , however i have found that running X11 as root with the default wmaker is the easiest way to check xorg setup.


Disliking systemd intensely, but not satisfied with alternatives so focusing on taming systemd.


(A works at time B)  && (time C > time B ) ≠  (A works at time C)

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#10 2006-05-28 10:35:26

gaggio
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From: Italy
Registered: 2006-05-27
Posts: 11

Re: nvidia drivers freeze my pc!

So I should try to install that package, set xorg.conf to use "nv" driver, and run startx as root?

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#11 2006-05-28 10:51:31

Lone_Wolf
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From: Netherlands, Europe
Registered: 2005-10-04
Posts: 11,922

Re: nvidia drivers freeze my pc!

yes, that's the idea.

NOTE :
I forgot wmaker expects to have use some apps that since xorg 7 are no longer installed by default.

Once you see a mouse cursor, check if it reacts on mouse movement.
If that happens basic X11 funtions are configured correctly.
Use Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to kill X and get back to console.


Disliking systemd intensely, but not satisfied with alternatives so focusing on taming systemd.


(A works at time B)  && (time C > time B ) ≠  (A works at time C)

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#12 2006-05-28 11:36:07

gaggio
Member
From: Italy
Registered: 2006-05-27
Posts: 11

Re: nvidia drivers freeze my pc!

Now, that's what I have done:
- installed the xf86-video-nv package
- edited xorg.conf, adding dri, commenting glx, substituting "nvidia" with "nv" and decommenting the dri section
- then I did a startx from root
- the pointer appeared and moved according to my input
- xorg shut down immediately complaining about eterm that was missing.

Than I tried to startx being a common user and it is working... I am now writing from the interface just brought up.

So you think I should forgot about official drivers and use nv ones?

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#13 2006-05-28 11:46:14

Lone_Wolf
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From: Netherlands, Europe
Registered: 2005-10-04
Posts: 11,922

Re: nvidia drivers freeze my pc!

The main diff between nv and nvidia is that the nvidia drivers are faster and have 3D acceleration.
The nv and nvidia packages coexist well, and there is a new Nvidia package in [testing] repo.

Maybe you could try that one out  and help with testing it ?

Just make sure you keep a copy of the xorg.conf with nv in it, so you can switch back easy.


Disliking systemd intensely, but not satisfied with alternatives so focusing on taming systemd.


(A works at time B)  && (time C > time B ) ≠  (A works at time C)

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#14 2006-05-28 17:07:19

gaggio
Member
From: Italy
Registered: 2006-05-27
Posts: 11

Re: nvidia drivers freeze my pc!

I would be very happy to test new nvidia package. It's time to give something (though very little) to this community that gave me so much good software!

I think I should add [testing] repo to pacman.conf and then do a

pacman -Sy nvidia

to sync only that package, than comment again [testing] repo.

But how should I help the developing team? Is there any particular board for such a discussion?

In the meantime, I would like to ask how can I manage to use OpenGL (if it is possible with nv driver). Should I install some package? Now, applications like KPovModeler or Keyjnote complain about these missing libraries.

Thank you!

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#15 2006-05-29 13:12:39

gaggio
Member
From: Italy
Registered: 2006-05-27
Posts: 11

Re: nvidia drivers freeze my pc!

Somewhere in the italian archlinux wiki I read about libgl-dri package being necessary to use openGL if you have don't have official nvidia drivers installed. So I tried to pacman -S libgl-dri, but it says that the package conflicts with nvidia package. So this will prevent me to have a way to rapidly switch between nv and nvidia driver for testing purposes.

Can you confirm that libgl-dri is needed to use openGL applications with "nv" driver?

Thank you!  smile

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#16 2006-05-29 16:10:00

sergej
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From: Russia, Voronezh
Registered: 2006-03-21
Posts: 69

Re: nvidia drivers freeze my pc!

Try

Option "NvAgp" "0"

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#17 2006-05-31 07:53:08

gaggio
Member
From: Italy
Registered: 2006-05-27
Posts: 11

Re: nvidia drivers freeze my pc!

Nothing to do... It continues with the same issue!
I had to come back to nv driver.

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#18 2006-06-04 14:39:19

gaggio
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From: Italy
Registered: 2006-05-27
Posts: 11

Re: nvidia drivers freeze my pc!

gaggio wrote:

Can you confirm that libgl-dri is needed to use openGL applications with "nv" driver?

No one can answer this one?

Thanks!  smile

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#19 2006-06-06 19:58:08

eNTi
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Registered: 2006-04-30
Posts: 109

Re: nvidia drivers freeze my pc!

i too have a similar problem with my asus notebook and it's geforce 7300Go. it started, when i installed. the 1.0-8762 drivers from nvidia together with 2.6.17-beyond-git2 from aur, because i want native broadcom support for my wlan and suspend2 working without patches.

it seems more people have that "black screen of death" problem. it's been there for quite a while and i've gathered some information of what might help.

1.

root@defiler $ cat /etc/modprobe.conf
#
# /etc/modprobe.conf (for v2.6 kernels)
#
options nvidia NVreg_SoftEDIDs=0 NVreg_Mobile=4

2.

root@defiler $ vim /etc/X11/xorg.conf
    Option  "NvAgp"                 "2"
    Option  "ModeValidation"        "NoMaxPClkCheck"

play around with the NvAgp settings: 0-3 (or something). i've read that different people had success with different settings. i also found, that there's a problem with 4KSTACKS in the kernel, but i'm not sure how current that information is. i'm pretty out of ideas atm, if someone could find a solution to this, i'd be quite glad to hear it.

ah and btw. the pc does not crash or anything, just the display is somewhat frozen. you can still ssh into the pc and work with it.

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#20 2006-06-06 20:10:49

agilyben
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Registered: 2005-08-22
Posts: 31

Re: nvidia drivers freeze my pc!

Yep, I'm in the same boat now that I'm trying to use ArchLinux again.  I used ArchLinux for a very long time (until 4-5 months ago when I left) and it worked absolutely great on my Toshiba Qosmio with Nvidia.  I had excellent video/audio and everything working perfectly (except getting MythTV setup).

I decided to put Arch back on it and have had no luck at all with it.  Same black screen hang as you.  Other latest versions of Linux' works fine with the video (PCLinuxOS, CentOS, etc...etc...).

And I was soooooooo looking forward to getting back to Arch...  :-(   A real bummer!  I guess I could always restore my old working backup from Feburary and just not do any updates, but that's no fun!

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#21 2006-06-06 20:32:01

Lone_Wolf
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From: Netherlands, Europe
Registered: 2005-10-04
Posts: 11,922

Re: nvidia drivers freeze my pc!

gaggio wrote:
gaggio wrote:

Can you confirm that libgl-dri is needed to use openGL applications with "nv" driver?

No one can answer this one?

Thanks!  smile

Sorry, i thought i had answered.

Libgl-dri is indeed necessary for those apps. The nvidia package also supplies libgl-dri, that's why they conflict.

@agilyben & eNTi : have you tried to use nvidia with stock kernel to determine if the problem is with nvidia or with your kernels ?


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#22 2006-06-06 20:58:41

agilyben
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Registered: 2005-08-22
Posts: 31

Re: nvidia drivers freeze my pc!

I'm using the stock kernel on mine.  I had patched kernels when I used Arch previously, but I was just using the stock one while I'm getting it setup again.  I haven't had this much trouble since the early days of Linux.   Those days were real fun getting everything working.  ;-)

I hadn't tried in about a week, so I booted back into Arch a few minutes ago and did an update to get all the latest and tried again.  Same thing.  Works fine with 'nv' driver, but with 'nvidia' it just hangs.

Lone_Wolf wrote:

@agilyben & eNTi : have you tried to use nvidia with stock kernel to determine if the problem is with nvidia or with your kernels ?

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#23 2006-06-06 21:46:09

eNTi
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Registered: 2006-04-30
Posts: 109

Re: nvidia drivers freeze my pc!

i'v just used the stock kernel26beyond from the pacman repos and kde starts up normally, but wether powersave -u nor my wlan works.

i think it's the combination of 2.6.17 and the 1.0.8762 nvidia drivers, which causes this "black screen of death" on my asus notebook.

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#24 2006-06-07 00:58:16

agilyben
Member
Registered: 2005-08-22
Posts: 31

Re: nvidia drivers freeze my pc!

Mine has had the blackscreen hang on the 3 most recent stock kernels (over the last few weeks) and the last 2 (or possibly 3) most recent nvidia drivers.  They've all just hung on me.  I'm thinking it may be xorg7 since the last time I had it working was around February/March on the old xorg.  NV works, but nvidia is driving me nuts.  I wonder if I should try the nvidia-legacy?  It's the NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5700 that's in the Qosmio w/17" 1440x900 screen.

eNTi wrote:

i'v just used the stock kernel26beyond from the pacman repos and kde starts up normally, but wether powersave -u nor my wlan works.

i think it's the combination of 2.6.17 and the 1.0.8762 nvidia drivers, which causes this "black screen of death" on my asus notebook.

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#25 2006-06-24 11:46:14

tmadhavan
Member
From: Wales :D
Registered: 2004-03-26
Posts: 441

Re: nvidia drivers freeze my pc!

For the record, the aforementioned

 Option "nvagp" = "0"

setting has worked wonders for my system, thankyou!

I was getting random lockups, but no I can run X and composite extensions, with no crashes at all.

Cheers for that. Just thought I'd confirm it for others with similar probs.

PS
Long time, no see! Arch is back on the old workstation big_smile

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