FS#15315 - Newest nvidia driver crashes on newer Dell laptops.
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Opened by James (dr0p) - Monday, 29 June 2009, 20:37 GMT
Last edited by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Tuesday, 30 June 2009, 12:59 GMT
Opened by James (dr0p) - Monday, 29 June 2009, 20:37 GMT
Last edited by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Tuesday, 30 June 2009, 12:59 GMT
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Details
When trying to use the latest nvidia drivers (185.18.14-1)
on my laptop (Dell Inspiron 1420 - May 09) with xorg it
simply freezes the system, although you still can connect to
it via SSH and kill the X session. According to MrSchlee on
the forums it also is effecting his Inspiron 1520. As a test
I downgraded my nvidia package by one update and it required
me to also downgrade my kernel; after doing this, my xorg
loaded fine, which would be okay as a temporary solution
except that my wireless driver (broadcom-wl from the AUR)
requires the newest kernel. I tried again updating my kernel
and using the vesa and nv drivers, this also works fine but
both of them have problems and I would really like to just
be able to use the nvidia driver.
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This task depends upon
I believe i had the same problem as you but i am not sure without seeing the logs.
That's the log from the crash.
http://nvidia.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/nvidia.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=44
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=14
They release test builds quite often now, so there are chances that it will be fixed in one of them, and you can build your own package for that version without waiting for Arch devs to update the package in Extra.
In the mean time you can modify nvidia PKGBUILD to build the version that is known to work with your hardware, this way you won't be required to downgrade kernel too.