On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 12:21:17AM +0100, Ennio-Sr wrote: > Hi all! > > since I installed new kernels (i.e. 4.9.0 and 4.14.0-0) to be > half-protected against Meltdown/Spectre I was having freezing problems > with X using 'nouveau' driver (never had any problem with older > kernels). So i decided to try the original non-free nvidia driver as > provided by the nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver and relted packages. Now, > after struggling for a couple of days to search the web for a possible > solution to the 'black screen' coming out running startx, I'm curious to > know if there is any of you with the same hardware who found a > workaround and would share it.
I do have a macbookpro and for me it was exactly the issue. e.g. The graphics adapter by default is not bus master. > > Looking at the various logs I can't find any clue. > Reading <https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#configure> I also > consulted the suggested link 'http://askubuntu.com/a/613573/134848' but > as its author worked on a MacBook7,1 whereas mine is macmini4,1 I'm > afraid either I misunderstood his advices concerning the 'setpci -s' (my > values where different) or that patch is not applicable to macmini. > what is the result of nvidia-detect ? what does sudo lshw -businfo -class bridge -class display report back? and the file you created /etc/grub.d/01_enable_vga.conf can you pleas list the contents of this file? -- Henning Follmann | hfollm...@itcfollmann.com
