Hi David On Thursday 07 October 2010 17:37:45 David C. Rankin wrote:
On 10/07/2010 11:14 AM, Bob Williams wrote:
Hi,
I'm still getting frequent, intermittent hangs which I believe is due to a conflict between the kernel 2.6.34.7-0.3-desktop and the nvidia video driver 256.53-16.1.
I'd like to try switching to the opensource nv/nouveau driver, but I'm not sure how to go about it. The xorg-x11-driver-video-nouveau 0.0.15 is installed, according to yast.
Any suggestions, please?
Bob
Bob,
It's simple. I just keep 2 xorg.conf file (xorg.conf.nv and xorg.conf.nvidia). They are basically identical except for the following:
(nvidia driver) Section "Device" Driver "nvidia" <snip> Option "Coolbits" "1"
(nv driver) Driver "nv" <snip> #Option "Coolbits" "1" (just comment or remove this option)
Easy way:
su cd /etc/X11 cp xorg.conf xorg.conf.nvidia vi (or your favorite editor) xorg.conf change: Driver "nvidia" to Driver "nv" and remove the Coolbits option (then exit editor) cp xorg.conf xorg.conf.nv logout (if in kde/gnome/whatever) ctrl+alt+F1 (to get a terminal) login (as root or su) rcxdm restart logout of terminal ctrl+alt+F7 (to get back to login)
Note: in some circumstances pieces of the display driver can be left in memory even after restarting the display manager that can cause problem with the new driver (more of an ATI issue). If this happens, just reboot with the new xorg.conf in place
Done -- Good Luck :p
Many thanks. That worked well, and I can now change back to the nvidia driver after the next upgrade of kernel or nvidia driver :) Bob -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.3 64-bit, Kernel 2.6.34.7-0.3-desktop, KDE 4.5.1 Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 8GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 9600GT -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org