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jtj

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Registered: 2008-02-17

Posts: 2

Problems with nvidia driver

Hello,

Hope this is the right place to put this. I couldn't find any other information about this problem, at least nothing thats helped so far. I'm struggling to get the nvidia driver working fully on my Compaq Presario v6000 laptop with a GeForce Go 6150. More specifically.. I can startx with no problem, but when I come to shut X down (ctrl alt backspace), or switch to another terminal, i get screen corruption like this. At this point the only thing I can do is turn off.

I've had other distros working without this problem, so I assume that either other distros are using some older driver which works better (i'm currently using the latest installed via pacman), or they're using some crazy xorg.conf setting that I havent found?

Here's my xorg.conf if it helps; i haven't added anything particularly special to it. I'm also booting with noapic if that's relevant.

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Xorg Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "USB Mouse" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"

#    FontPath     "/usr/share/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/75dpi"
#    FontPath     "/usr/share/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi"
    RgbPath      "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
    ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/PEX"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/western"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/latex-ttf-fonts"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/defoma/CID"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/defoma/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load  "ddc"  # ddc probing of monitor
    Load  "dbe"
    Load  "extmod"
    Load  "glx"
    Load  "bitmap" # bitmap-fonts
    Load  "freetype"
    Load  "record"
    Load  "synaptics"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option        "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true"
    Option        "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "kbd"
    Option        "CoreKeyboard"
    Option        "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option        "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option        "XkbLayout" "uk"
    Option        "XkbVariant" ""
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "USB Mouse"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option        "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option        "SendCoreEvents" "true"
    Option        "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
    Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    Option        "Buttons" "5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"

***snipped the big list of resolutions/refresh rates***

    Option        "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Videocard0"
    Driver      "nvidia"
    VendorName  "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName   "GeForce Go 6150"
        
    Option "NoLogo" "True"
    Option "RenderAccel" "False"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device     "Videocard0"
    Monitor    "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth     24
    Option        "TwinView" "0"
    Option        "metamodes" "1280x800 +0+0; 800x600 +0+0; 640x480 +0+0"
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth     24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

I'd appreciate any pointers anyone can give me. Many thanks.

Last edited by jtj (2008-02-17 19:56:05)