3D causes freeze with NVIDIA card
I recently used a Knoppix disc to install Debian on my Hard Drive. Everything worked okay and I started KDE just fine. I installed Half Life using WINE and everything was still going okay. When I tried to run Half Life the video just froze. I assume this is because the generic vesa driver I was using did not have 3D support. I downloaded the latest NVIDIA driver and installed it. I edited it and changed "vesa" to "nvidia" and ran "modprobe nvidia" then started xserver. I got the NVIDIA logo and a black screen with some green squares. I'm assuming this is because 3D support is enabled, but for some reason linux isn't using it correctly. It's only a video freeze. When I fumble around on the keyboard I am able to get sounds that would lead me to believe that kde is working. Pressing Control-Alt-F1 brings me to the command line and that displays just fine. I have a GEFORCE FX5500 with 256MB of video memory with the most recent NVIDIA driver (downloaded yesterday). It shouldn't make a difference, but my Hard Drive is formatted with ReiserFS.
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Before any questions are asked, the most important one is did you read the README? I can guarantee your problem will be solved if you took the time to read it. ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Li...106/README.txt
I will, however, show you what you most likely need to do, since you didnt tell us if you had already done this. Quote:
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I followed the instructions in the readme... for some reason I can't even get a command line now. Just a bunch of green squares, or a black screen. I've been waiting half an hour now for some kind of coherent video, and I'm getting nothing. The only thing I can do is control-alt-delete to restart. I do see the little penguin and all the startup text on startup. The screen flashes the NVIDIA logo, then I get nothing.
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I have been running Fedora Core 2 for a while now, the NVIDIA drivers are perfect, but I just can't get it to run under knoppix. I don't get it. I have the exact same problem with Gentoo (even when using emerge). I don't really like FC2 that much because they intentionally make it near impossible to recompile the kernel (which I have had no problem doing under gentoo or debian/knoppix). Is there possible something enabled by default that conflicts with the nvidia module? The only difference I can think of between FC2 and Debian is that FC2 comes with x.org as the default, and of course the actual kernel. What I find ironic is that all the articles I've seen claim that FC2 and NVIDIA don't work well together... I'll try to post my XFREE86 config file, but I seem to be having some trouble changing my default runlevel to 3, that should only take a few seconds.
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First compiled a new kernel left the kernel source linked to /usr/src/linux. Code:
[HappyTux:/home/stephen]# ll /usr/src/linux Second when rebooting with the new kernel at the KDM greeter screen use CTRL + ATL + F1 keys at the same time to get the console vt1 and login as root then use /etc/init.d/kdm stop to stop the X server. Third change to the directory containing the Nvidia driver and run it. Fourth edit the /etc/X11XF86Config-4 file and comment out. Code:
Section "Module" Fifth now add the. Code:
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if I could get to the KDM greeter screen, I wouldn't have this problem. I change my runlevel to 3, however. After the NVIDIA logo flashes, I get a black screen. Quote:
kcminit crashed and caused a signal 11 I did not get this before installing the nvidia module. I've added the alias, I edited my XF86Config-4, all I get is a black screen. Is there any kind of conflicting library or module I need to get rid of??? Has anyone done this specifically on knoppix? I know this works on other distros. I've read the install guide a million times. |
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Is rivafb compiled into the kernel by default? It isn't showing up as a loadable module. This is the third time I've installed the NVIDIA drivers on this particular system, but the first time I've noticed the error. Could this be causing a problem? |
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