R33D3M33R
March 3rd, 2010, 06:19 PM
Yesterday I upgraded the kernel from 2.6.24-26-generic to 2.6.24-27-generic (I'm still using Hardy Heron). After upgrade I uninstalled the previous Nvidia driver installation:
sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-96.43.13-pkg1.run --uninstall
and did a install with
sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-96.43.13-pkg1.run
After that I started kdm and everything seemed to work fine untill I rebooted. Then I got black screen. The driver didn't freeze the system, because I was able login and when trying some commands (pressing Tab it beeped like it should).
I booted in recovery mode, installed the driver again, and it worked again -- untill reboot, and so on. I tried 96.43.16, and no difference.
After another uninstall i removed everything nvidia related (*.ko) and tried installing. Didn't change anything.
I tried blacklisting modules in /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common/
DISABLED_MODULES="nv"
It didn't work. Only lines suspicious in Xorg.0.log are:
[config/hal] couldn't initialise context: (null) ((null))
I tried to uninstall NVIDIA proprietary drivers and installing the drivers from repositories with Envy - it doesn't work.
I tried to purge xserver-xorg-core and hal, but it didn't work.
I added nvidia to /etc/modules but it didn't work.
The drivers do work if I boot and start xserver with NV driver, then shutdown kdm, change driver to "NVIDIA" and start kdm.
I have no idea what to do now and I'm completely lost. Before I purge the new kernel and reinstall the old one, I'm asking for help.
sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-96.43.13-pkg1.run --uninstall
and did a install with
sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-96.43.13-pkg1.run
After that I started kdm and everything seemed to work fine untill I rebooted. Then I got black screen. The driver didn't freeze the system, because I was able login and when trying some commands (pressing Tab it beeped like it should).
I booted in recovery mode, installed the driver again, and it worked again -- untill reboot, and so on. I tried 96.43.16, and no difference.
After another uninstall i removed everything nvidia related (*.ko) and tried installing. Didn't change anything.
I tried blacklisting modules in /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common/
DISABLED_MODULES="nv"
It didn't work. Only lines suspicious in Xorg.0.log are:
[config/hal] couldn't initialise context: (null) ((null))
I tried to uninstall NVIDIA proprietary drivers and installing the drivers from repositories with Envy - it doesn't work.
I tried to purge xserver-xorg-core and hal, but it didn't work.
I added nvidia to /etc/modules but it didn't work.
The drivers do work if I boot and start xserver with NV driver, then shutdown kdm, change driver to "NVIDIA" and start kdm.
I have no idea what to do now and I'm completely lost. Before I purge the new kernel and reinstall the old one, I'm asking for help.