On 23/08/14 18:46, Daniel J Jitnah wrote:
On 23/08/14 17:52, Robert Moonen wrote:
On 23/08/14 10:13, Brian May wrote:
Hello,
Am having two strange problems that are starting to eerk me with
this (relatively new) computer, running Debian wheezy:
1. If I boot anything later then 3.12 kernel, I don't get any
display. As in the monitors display black. No cursors of any sort.
Changing to a virtual console doesn't help. Booting in rescue mode
doesn't help (I think this rules out X-Windows being a problem). If
I go back to the 3.12 kernel, everything works perfectly. I also
tried plugging monitors into alternative ports just in case it is
going to the wrong place, but get nothing - in any case, under 3.12
the computer seems pretty good at automatically working out what
ports are active under X-Windows.
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G96 [GeForce
9500 GT] (rev a1)
Am currently using the non-free nvidia drivers. Had exactly the same
symptoms when I installed the latest kernel without the non-free
nvidia kernel modules. I think the problem is occurring before X starts.
I had a similar problem with a rather old and *different* Nvidia card
to yours and a late kernel (I think its 3.13 onwards?). As I
understand the changes in the latest kernel breaks the Nvidia driver,
and for my card at least, Nvidia will not update their driver, as my
card is quite old. Not sure, but could be yours is similarly
affected? There are patches, you supposedly can apply to the kernel
source, but thats ugly, and I tried that without success. :(.. - I did
not struggle a lot with it and gave up. (Reason I have not upgraded to
latest kernel.) Wheezy here as well. - In fact it appeared for me
in Jessie and Ubuntu 14.04.
Cheers
Daniel
I and my daughter have had problems especially with Ubuntu me using
standard install video drivers and she Nvidia driver. I'm thinking,
the way Linux 3.nn core handles video of late is worse that I can
remember.
There were a number of video problems then Ubuntu would not display
menus and eventually there was literally no easy way to even log in.
In desperation I used the trial live usb system and saved some of my
files to an external usb hd but on the next boot the whole thing failed.
I did a fresh install of ubuntu to test whether the computer, mb, memory
or ssd was faulty and am still testing, so far it's all ok but after 2
failures in a week I am most uncomfortable.
Oh! and before I get told off for not discussing Fedora, my ADSL is
running at 0.1 to at best 30 Kb/sec for weeks now so downloading the
Fedora 20 live was going to take 2 days not counting times when it shuts
off for hours at a time. I used what I had.
I'm thinking there is a fault somewhere in core linux and this may also
affect Nvidia drivers because every program or app I used had faults and
display errors and eventually the top bar with X - and [] for close,
minimise and enlarge disappeared. Thunderbird and LiberOffice had lines
of text missing, cut in half or doubled and the list goes on.
Roger
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