nVidia driver 185 black screens and 177 doesn't accelerate

adrian.ratnapala · 2009-07-27 21:23:44

Hi,

I just installed Arch for the first time. All was goodish untill nVidia let me down.

This is all with

Xorg 1.6.2, and the graphics chipset is:
GeForce 9500 GT

There is trouble in two parts:

part I: driver 185 sucks hard

I had to downgrade to nvidia-177 because of a bug I think is mentioned in the thread:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=63281

Except now it is with kernel 2.6.30 and driver 185.
I quote:

This morning, after some more attempts, I decided to re-install Arch.
Finished installing, Installed Xorg, Installed Nvidia-180.22, tried to "startx", and nothing - black screen,
nonresponsive mouse an keyboards, and the CPU sounds like it's going up the roof...

(The thing about the CPU means a fan starts spinning hard.)

This happens for just about any xorg.conf that actually uses the nvidia driver. For example, I can run nvidia-xconfig, and optionally comment out the "InputDevice" lines and this will still happen.

There is no logfile at all. Nor can I save anything on standard error.

part II: GoogleEarth (and others?)

GoogleEarth performs really badly with the nVidia driver. It's actually much faster with the open source drivers (but still not smooth). I haven't tried any other 3D applications in a fair test.

This *might* be because the lib32-nvidia-utils (and hence libGL) does not come in a version for driver 177.

Last edited by adrian.ratnapala (2009-07-27 21:32:24)

SpeedVin · 2009-07-28 05:11:17

Hello
Do you tried?

X -confiugre

Last edited by SpeedVin (2009-07-28 05:11:36)

adrian.ratnapala · 2009-07-28 17:46:21

Re part II

GoogleEarth now works, I found this out using

X -confiugre

(thanks SpeedVin), but actually it works with my old xorg.conf too. I don't know what changed.

As for part I: I tried "X -configure" during my Fight With the Blackscreen, and it didn't
help.

Anyway, I'm happy using 177 for now. Still it's upsetting that the new drivers don't work.
I chose nVidia because their commercial drivers have always been solid for me and my
friends.

Last edited by adrian.ratnapala (2009-07-31 15:45:51)

djszapi · 2009-07-30 21:15:10

hwd -x should work too, or without xorg.conf in the new version.

fifafrazer · 2009-08-01 22:50:28

I get black screen too with
nvidia-180.51-1-i686 on my Nvidia Quadro NVS 140 m
When slim should turn up, it just turns off the screen, and it wont wake up.

The problem was solved by downgrading to version 185.18.14-1-i686 from my pacman cache.

ichbinesderelch · 2009-08-02 09:10:15

same problem here with the new nvidia drivers and gforce7400go
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=77131

adrian.ratnapala · 2009-08-02 17:11:23

Hmm, I am glad there are some new threads about blackscreening nVidias, because I am not sure it is really the same problem. My particular sickness has three symptoms:

1) 17x drivers work while 18x don't (180,185, whatever).

2) It not only black screens, but sets a fan (presumably the CPU fan) spinning hard.

3) There is no logging available after reboot, either on standard error, or to the system logs.

Since the 17x drivers work, I'm just going to sit this one out. One day I will upgrade to whatever is latest and see what happens. I'm still disappointed that there are
so many problems with the nVidia drivers. I thought they were solid.

Cheers.

Last edited by adrian.ratnapala (2009-08-02 17:19:08)

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#1 2009-07-27 21:23:44

nVidia driver 185 black screens and 177 doesn't accelerate

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