Hi..

I'm having very troublesome time in getting nvidia graphics to work. In the last one week, I began with slackware 14.1, tried linux mint 17, pclinuxos and again am back to slackware. But the same issue persists everywhere. Everything works smooth before installing nvidia drivers, using nouveau. But after installing drivers( literally any driver from 331 to the latest 343.22), all hell breaks loose, and the screen just flickers, keyboard becomes unresponsive, so can't even have time to go to tty1, and mouse starts freezing every few seconds and finally freezes completely, with only option to hard reboot. The flickering was unbearable with mint and pclinuxos, but there was no flickering in slackware, it just freezed.(but it is very consistent nonetheless and happens every single time). After starting X, I hardly have some 2-3 min before freezing begins. And the problem is persistent in all DE, kde, xfce and even fluxbox.

Ive googled extensively on this issue, and it seems to be quite prevalent, some blaming the drivers and some compiz. But no solution seen anywhere. I was all about to give up on nvidia drivers and use nouveau instead(but I really needed the GPU acceleration as I use Blender and krita,and can't go to windows because krita doesn't perform as well there), Here are system specs..

Intel i3-4130 4th generation processor.
Asus Z97 Sabertooth Mark 2 motherboard.
Nvidia GTX 650 Ti 2GB
Gskill RAM 8 GB...
Dell U2414H monitor.

Thanks for every possible help. If output of any command can give more clues, I will try my best to provide. Thanks again.

Did you uninstall or blacklist nouveau ?

Yes, the nvidia installer does that automatically, doesn't it?

Otherwise it wouldn't install. I had to reboot after blacklisting nouveau and rebooting to install nvidia again.

in slackware does this happen with xfce4 or just kde. if it does not happen with startxfce4 then make your life simple instead of explaining everything.
run xfce4 as root and go to the /home/your user/ and delete the .kde and then log into kde as that user.
in short kde desktop composting is screwing up and this may happen when changing hardware.Or other reasons.
let me know.
one more thing what is the size of your power supply the watts?
0k re read it it is happening everywhere. then what is the size of your power supply you will need 400 watt bare minimum.
450 to 500 watts is a lot better with a lot of ram. ram uses watts also.
if this is not an issue with the nouveau driver then this points to power supply problem because the proprietary driver
will do that draw the power as the card needs to render in 3d and the ability to change the clock on the gpu it will draw more
power. if you have a good powers supply then return the card it is defective.
one last thing that will cause that is mis-matched ram modules.

Drakeo,


Hi. I just did it quickly. Logged into with startxfce4 as root, deleted .kde under the user 'davz' and logged out and logged in again with the same user into KDE and as soon as it started, the screen went distorting, flickering - but the mouse was workable this time and I managed to log out from KDE into the terminal.

My power supply is Coolermaster Thunder 650 watts.

Hi drakeo..

How much is the possibility that the card might be defective? Is there a way to confirm that? But it seems to run flawlessly using nouveau. And I guess my psu can handle my gpu pretty well, cant it? And I only have one memory stick of 8 gb. What should I do now?

Typically, I seen that when the Glorious User use NVIDIA proprietary driver AND the NICE(TM) console framebuffer...

So, try to use in lilo.conf:

or


Most likely will fix your problems...

to be honest the card sounds like it is bad the moment you go to use the gpu it is causing troubles. so what I would do is go to
run level three then do a sh NVIDIA-Linux-xxx --uninstall then I would reinstall mesa then reboot to run level 3 Then I would then
do a sh NVIDIA-Linux-xxx install for slackware 14.1 I have used most of the drivers my favorite driver is the 319.49 32 and 64 bit. and I use libvdpau from the driver not from Slackbuilds but in the near future we will have no choice. I would uninstall libvdpau if you have it installed. then do as i noted above. if your running multi-lib then give it 32 bit support during the build.

i use vga=791 for my 20 inch flat screen no prblem on a 19 inch flat screen and I can use normal but that is for frame buffers during boot. before the kernel is loaded and before the OS takes over.

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Okay.

I have two pc's at home with different gpu's. I will surely return it to the service center as it is still under warranty. No big deal.

For now, I am marking it as solved as I have already taken my gpu apart to send it. This will help other threads to be noticed.


Thanks.