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xanm

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Registered: 2013-10-02

Posts: 8

MacBookPro3,1 Problems with Nvidia Driver

My system:
Processor  2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Memory  4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
Graphics  NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 256 MB

After i install nvidia package and reboot
MacBook stuck at UFI booting
system responde, just no video

i even can login and write reboot
and tty switch doesn't work too

then i boot from install usb, mount, chroot and delete nvidia package
then reboot and all fine, i can see console again

i tried nvidia-304xx too

May be i need some other driver?

xanm

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Registered: 2013-10-02

Posts: 8

Re: MacBookPro3,1 Problems with Nvidia Driver

I tried to install NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-319.17 from Nvidia web site
According to docs this driver supports my card

While installation i had warning "The Nouveau kernel driver is currently in use by your system"  and suggested to disable it through modprobe
So i accept it and then proposed to reboot and run install process again

after reboot i have the same problem as before

so i rebooted again in usb install flash and deleted Nouveau disable files

and again i have only console

any help?

xanm

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Registered: 2013-10-02

Posts: 8

Re: MacBookPro3,1 Problems with Nvidia Driver

i am getting forward

i disable nouveau

and login through ssh

and i have new great problem
i cant install nvidia driver

   include/linux/compiler.h:152:40: note: in definition of macro ‘likely’
    # define likely(x) __builtin_expect(!!(x), 1)
                                           ^
   /tmp/selfgz494/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-319.17/kernel/nv-i2c.c: In function ‘nv_i2c_del_adapter’:
   /tmp/selfgz494/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-319.17/kernel/nv-i2c.c:327:14: error: void value not ignored as it ought to be
        osstatus = i2c_del_adapter(pI2cAdapter);
                 ^
   make[3]: *** [/tmp/selfgz494/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-319.17/kernel/nv-i2c.o] Error 1
   make[2]: *** [_module_/tmp/selfgz494/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-319.17/kernel] Error 2
   NVIDIA: left KBUILD.
   nvidia.ko failed to build!
   make[1]: *** [module] Error 1
   make: *** [module] Error 2
-> Error.

some kind of incompatibility with Linux 3.10/3.11

xanm

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Registered: 2013-10-02

Posts: 8

Re: MacBookPro3,1 Problems with Nvidia Driver

if i install packege nvidia i have error

[  163.212919] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: irq 48 for MSI/MSI-X
[  163.224747] NVRM: failed to copy vbios to system memory.
[  163.224919] NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x30:0xffffffff:720)
[  163.224925] NVRM: rm_init_adapter(0) failed

xanm

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Registered: 2013-10-02

Posts: 8

Re: MacBookPro3,1 Problems with Nvidia Driver

after some magic
i found this

nv_acpi_rom_method: failed to evaluate _ROM method!

xanm

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Registered: 2013-10-02

Posts: 8

Re: MacBookPro3,1 Problems with Nvidia Driver

may be this bug related to https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42696