nvidia drivers freeze my pc!

nirvanix · 2006-07-15 14:48:52

Does anyone have an Arch package that has the patched nvidia driver that will make it work with Arch? I've got a Nvidia 6150 graphics chip that is hanging with the regular driver.

Bitbucket · 2006-08-07 14:56:19

Ok I had this same problem with a 7800GTX. heres how I fixed it.
first I renamed xorg.conf. I downloaded the Nvidia drivers from Nvidia.com.
now install it, It should have generated a new config file XF86Config.
as a user run startx. It should work. I am not sure what the problem was with the display locking up. But it has to do with the default xorg.conf.

hope it helps ya!!

I think I have found a distro I really like.
I can tinker but i don't have to compile every damn program. :-P
so far so good.

thanks for the fun install.

notanatheist · 2006-10-14 21:15:55

Ugh!! The "nvidia black screen of death' is annoying!

Two systems running arch. My main box here runs fine with a PCIe 7900GT and the beta Nvidia drivers. The other box get the same issue described in this thread with an AGP 6600GT. No errors in /var/log/Xorg.0.log, no DRI in xorg.conf, "nv" driver works fine, even tried identical kernel configs and xorg.conf from this box. I can ssh in just fine and reboot. Tried running X as a user and root. TV card wouldn't cause interference?

In regards to "Option" "NvAgp" "0" (or 1,2,3) what section to try that in? I've never had these kinds of issues on any distro with Nvidia drivers. I've been through my BIOS too. Have to be missing something somehere. Any ideas?

Adding to this the further things I've tried. Found in some locations issues with I2C and EEPROM so recompiled without support for EERPROM, reinstall latest (9526?) drivers and same darn thing!

bud · 2007-10-24 20:58:00

So, any solution to this mess!?!?

sultanoswing · 2008-07-23 11:00:10

I'm getting the same black freezes and lockups with a Geforce 7600GT on AGP and Nforce 3 (K8NS m/b). Works with NvAGP = 0, but anything hard locks the system.

Without wishing to zombify this post, this issue is covered in several more recent thread, but no one seems to have a consistent solution.

It's damn annoying. It seems to be related to a conflict in the Arch kernel and its implementation of AGP with the NVIDIA drivers as far as I can tell. In my experiences (Ubuntu, Fedora) this is the first time I've run into this problem on my hardware.

I wouldn't mind so much, since NvAgp fix works, but the performance is suboptimal, with stuttery compiz-fusion effects. The is listed as PCI in nvidia-server-settings, and "cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status" returns "Status: Disabled"

However:

cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/card
Fast Writes:      Supported
SBA:          Supported
AGP Rates:      8x 4x 
Registers:      0xff000e1b:0x00000000

cat /proc/driver/nvidia/cards/0
Model:          Unknown
IRQ:            16
Video BIOS:      05.73.22.61.00
Card Type:      AGP
DMA Size:      32 bits
DMA Mask:      0xffffffff
Bus Location:      01.00.0

...my search for a solution continues, as this is a show-stopper on an otherwise stellar distro!

Last edited by sultanoswing (2008-07-23 11:03:12)

sultanoswing · 2008-07-25 10:17:58

Excellent!

I got AGP 8X working at last! The solution (in my case) was to access the advanced BIOS Menu (Ctrl+F1) and change AGP aperture to 128MB (from the default 32MB).

The difficulty was working out how to access that advanced setting - it's not obvious even when you press Ctrl+F1, but only apparent once you actually enter one of the menus - only then can you see more options are available than before, including altering the AGP aperture.

I'm now a very happy Arch user - and have just returned to 32-bit, since there is less stress with Flash (and Doom 3 ) without the faff of wrappers and lib32's. On installation, everything seems to work well "out of the box" a little better than x64. As they say, YMMV.

Last edited by sultanoswing (2008-07-25 19:24:03)

aely · 2008-07-25 11:00:37

My old desktop had the blank screen problem too when trying to start X. After few reboots it started fine. Truly puzzling. I think X started always in the background though, but the screen just was blank. Graphics card is some old GeForce MX 460, so nvidia-96xx running.

I think I found a solution by overriding the monitor detection: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVI … _detection .

Worked fine ever since

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