panKleks
March 25th, 2014, 07:47 PM
Hi all,
I have recently bought a second monitor. However, once I hooked it up to my 13.04 system I experienced the "screen tearing" problem. I tracked the problem down to KDE and found out that KDE 4.11 now shipped with Kubuntu 13.10 takes care of the problem. So I did a dist-upgrade following the instructions. I had to do dpkg --configure -a and apt-get update -f to fix a broken upgrade, but I don't think that has anything to do with the issue I am having now. The screen tearing problem was indeed taken care of after the upgrade but soon I found out that after putting the PC to sleep I couldn't wake it up. After pressing the power button I would get a black screen
with a cursor blinking. Nothing works then. I cannot drop to the console with ALT+CTRL+F1 and I need to manually restart. Does this have anything to do with Grub? Anyway I did some research, unplugged the second monitor, reinstalled grub, nvidia drivers (nvidia-319), the kernel (3.11), removed /etc/X11/xorg.conf and now I cannot boot into X. When I check the Xorg.0.log I see an error saying: (EE) NVIDIA(1): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module. So I ssh into the PC and load the nvidia module manually and then issue startx. X now starts. What is going on? Adding nvidia_319 to /etc/modules doesn't work. The failed X start doesn't fall back to a text based login screen. In fact, I cannot boot the kernel in text mode by substituting "quiet splas" with "text" in the Grub menu. When I do get back into X using the method I outlined above the text consoles usually accessible with ALT+CTRL+F1 are not there. This key sequence has no effect.
I would appreciate any help as I have spend many hours trying to figure out what is going on.
relevant system specs:
RAM: 12 GB
GRAPHICS: Nvidia 9800 GT
EDIT: My motherboard does have an onboard intel grahics chipset, I have blacklisted i915 module but I see entries in the Xorg.0.log that mention both intel and nouveau drivers being loaded. I have updated the nvidia driver to nvidia-331 that I got from x-swat ppa. All above problems still persist.
I have recently bought a second monitor. However, once I hooked it up to my 13.04 system I experienced the "screen tearing" problem. I tracked the problem down to KDE and found out that KDE 4.11 now shipped with Kubuntu 13.10 takes care of the problem. So I did a dist-upgrade following the instructions. I had to do dpkg --configure -a and apt-get update -f to fix a broken upgrade, but I don't think that has anything to do with the issue I am having now. The screen tearing problem was indeed taken care of after the upgrade but soon I found out that after putting the PC to sleep I couldn't wake it up. After pressing the power button I would get a black screen
with a cursor blinking. Nothing works then. I cannot drop to the console with ALT+CTRL+F1 and I need to manually restart. Does this have anything to do with Grub? Anyway I did some research, unplugged the second monitor, reinstalled grub, nvidia drivers (nvidia-319), the kernel (3.11), removed /etc/X11/xorg.conf and now I cannot boot into X. When I check the Xorg.0.log I see an error saying: (EE) NVIDIA(1): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module. So I ssh into the PC and load the nvidia module manually and then issue startx. X now starts. What is going on? Adding nvidia_319 to /etc/modules doesn't work. The failed X start doesn't fall back to a text based login screen. In fact, I cannot boot the kernel in text mode by substituting "quiet splas" with "text" in the Grub menu. When I do get back into X using the method I outlined above the text consoles usually accessible with ALT+CTRL+F1 are not there. This key sequence has no effect.
I would appreciate any help as I have spend many hours trying to figure out what is going on.
relevant system specs:
RAM: 12 GB
GRAPHICS: Nvidia 9800 GT
EDIT: My motherboard does have an onboard intel grahics chipset, I have blacklisted i915 module but I see entries in the Xorg.0.log that mention both intel and nouveau drivers being loaded. I have updated the nvidia driver to nvidia-331 that I got from x-swat ppa. All above problems still persist.