Hi! I'd like to thank the kind replies of Bob and Daniel. With regard to their suggestions, they might like to know that:
- changing 'nvidia' for 'vesa' unfortunately didn't help; - I had memtest86+ run for a long time, and no ram errors were reported. But Bob's guess that perhaps it is not a driver-related problem may be correct. Today I finally decided to try Nvidia installer, and had the newest driver installed. And - unfortunately - the system continues to freeze. Therefore, the cause must lie somewhere else (if it is not a bug). I'll keep trying, but my ideas are running out. I would greatly appreciate fresh suggestions from the community. Best regards, Eduardo --- Em sex, 13/4/12, daniel jimenez <[email protected]> escreveu: > De: daniel jimenez <[email protected]> > Assunto: Re: Trouble with Nvidia driver > Para: [email protected] > Data: Sexta-feira, 13 de Abril de 2012, 17:34 > 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 <[email protected]> > 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 > > > > > -- > Daniel Jiménez > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/cakuhbggabean1oodr3h6cgsb7i8tdreyfe5hwv6v3rzcgmb...@mail.gmail.com > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
