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FS#15315 - Newest nvidia driver crashes on newer Dell laptops.

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by James (dr0p) - Monday, 29 June 2009, 20:37 GMT
Last edited by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Tuesday, 30 June 2009, 12:59 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Critical
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

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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Closed by  Roman Kyrylych (Romashka)
Tuesday, 30 June 2009, 12:59 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Comment by Chris (DarkPheonix) - Monday, 29 June 2009, 21:16 GMT
Could you post your xorg log file?
I believe i had the same problem as you but i am not sure without seeing the logs.
Comment by James (dr0p) - Monday, 29 June 2009, 21:26 GMT
http://dpaste.com/60623/
That's the log from the crash.
Comment by Chris (DarkPheonix) - Monday, 29 June 2009, 21:39 GMT
Alright, try commenting out the type1 and freetype modules in your /etc/xorg.conf file. This *should* work but if it doesnt try creating a new xorg.conf from scratch with whatever method you perfer.
Comment by James (dr0p) - Monday, 29 June 2009, 22:09 GMT
I actually did try that, it doesn't change it. Xorg still crashes hard. I've gone through every option possible in Xorg, and it has nothing to do with my config because when I switch drivers it loads fine.
Comment by Chris (DarkPheonix) - Monday, 29 June 2009, 22:15 GMT
What i did to fix mine (it WAS a bit differnt though) was uninstall the nvidia drivers (before uninstalling these xorg would freeze too). I'm assuming you did pacman -S nvidia right? Then i started xorg WITHOUT a config file went to nvidias websit and downloaded my card specific driver. After installing that all worked well. That's all i got for ya haha.
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Tuesday, 30 June 2009, 12:59 GMT
We cannot fix bugs in a closed source driver. Please report the bug to Nvidia:
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.

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