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markz79

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Registered: 2009-05-17

Posts: 74

nvidia 195.36.15-2, kernel 2.6.33, and screen blanking

Hi,

When I boot Arch64 with the latest kernel26, nvidia-utils, and nvidia packages, the screen goes blank after "Waiting for UDev uevents" is displayed. I see no more startup messages until GDM starts. No issues then until I log out. Upon logging out the screen blanks and the computer freezes -- I must reboot.

I've seen posts with similar issues but nothing that helped. I tried passing "nomodeset" to the kernel and removing remnants from "/usr/lib64".

Thanks.

--mark

%pacman -Qs nvidia
local/libvdpau 0.4-1
    Nvidia VDPAU library
local/nvidia 195.36.15-2
    NVIDIA drivers for kernel26.
local/nvidia-utils 195.36.15-1
    NVIDIA drivers utilities and libraries.

%uname -a
Linux ArchDesktop 2.6.33-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Apr 25 18:10:47 EDT 2010 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 940 @ 2.93GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

$ lspci | grep nVidia
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT200 [GeForce GTX 280] (rev a1)
04:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT200 [GeForce GTX 280] (rev a1)

%cat /etc/X11.conf
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder58)  Fri Mar 12 02:12:40 PST 2010

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    HorizSync       28.0 - 33.0
    VertRefresh     43.0 - 72.0
    Option         "DPMS"
# GMZ: Optimal for 1680x1050 and 22" diagonal (18.656" x 11.660")
    Option       "DPI" "90 x 90"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

xihh

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Registered: 2010-05-12

Posts: 1

Re: nvidia 195.36.15-2, kernel 2.6.33, and screen blanking

Linux 2.6.33 includes nouveau driver for nVidia cards. You should try to configure it or blacklist it.