Re: [gentoo-amd64] NVIDIA 100.14.19 + xorg-server 1.4.0.90 + xorg-x11 7.3 = blackscreen after every restart

[Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>]

* Hemmann, Volker Armin <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> wrote:

Hi,

> > Actually, Nvidia's binary crap *never* worked for me (GeForce Go 6100).
> > All the versions I tried (all from portage, even the hard masked),
> > crashed the whole machine (!) a few seconds after the Xserver
> > came up. Seem their kernel driver is heavily broken.
> 
> maybe it is YOUR HARDWARE that is crap? Overheating? Bad PSU that 
> is not able to reliable power the 3d part of the core?

Quite uncertain. The machine is very stable w/o the NV drivers.
But just loading the kernel module and waiting a few mins 
ends up in an total lockup. I could 100% reproduce this problem with 
several nv-chipset based notebooks (different geforce versions).
Ah, and there had been an preinstalled Vista on that box, which 
worked perfectly with 3D stuff.
So I don't think it's an hw issue.

> hundreds, thousands, maybe millions of nvidia-on-linux users don't 
> have problems. 

Where do you got these numbers from ? NV marketing dept.? 


cu
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