Re: Trouble with Nvidia driver

I recently had a similar problem with a 9300 gs (which I understand to
be pretty much the same + dx9 support or smth).

Gdm3 would never start after installing a modded kernel. As a
workaround, try changing 'nvidia' for 'vesa' in the grub config file
and see where that leads. Maybe you can boot like that, there wont be
any video acceleration though.

Maybe that kernel version is incompatible with the provided nvidia blob?

Hope it helps.

Daniel

On 4/13/12, Bob Proulx <bob@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Eduardo Bearzoti wrote:
Video card (lspci output):
nvidia Corporation G86[GeForce 8400 GS] (rev a1)

I have a system with the same graphics chip and it is working fine for
me at 1600x1200 with the default driver. I am a little embarrassed to
say that after looking at the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file I am not sure
which driver it is actually using. I do not have any special drivers
(e.g. nouveau or nvidia) installed. It has been fine and I haven't
needed to look at it. It worked out of the box by default.

when attempting to login trough gdm3, the whole system freezes again.

Since you are reporting system freezes I am concerned that this may be
a ram problem. If I were looking at this I would install memtest86+
as a bootable system. Then reboot into memtest and let it run through
several cycles to verify that you are not having a system memory
problem.

# apt-get install memtest86+
...
Setting up memtest86+ (4.10-1.1) ...
Generating grub.cfg ...
...
Found memtest86+ image: /memtest86+.bin

That will configure grub automatically for a bootable memtest
environment. Reboot and it can be selected.

If I ever find a problem with ram then I am always very thankful
because replacing ram is pretty inexpensive and a much easier thing to
do than most other repairs or chasing down driver problems.

Good luck!

Bob



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