[opensuse] nvidia-legacy with gf4 mx 440se on openSUSE 11.2
I tried to install nvidia legacy driver. I downloaded legacy (96.43.14) from nvidia website, then installed as usual. After restart X crashes during start. All logs are under links (nopaste site). Then I found in google, that "nopat" option added to kernel boot line might help. And it helped, X starts fine. What this option does? And why was necessary to add it to kernel line? Is it possible to fix suse kernel to make installing nvidia-legacy driver (even from repo) easily & smooth? nvidia-bug-report → http://wklej.org/id/239658/ Xorg.0.log → http://wklej.org/id/239654/ -- Pozdrawiam / Best regards, Mariusz Fik, openSUSE Community Member
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday, 2009-12-19 at 01:46 +0100, Mariusz Fik wrote:
I tried to install nvidia legacy driver. I downloaded legacy (96.43.14) from nvidia website, then installed as usual. After restart X crashes during start. All logs are under links (nopaste site).
Then I found in google, that "nopat" option added to kernel boot line might help. And it helped, X starts fine. What this option does?
I don't know. It is not documented: cer@nimrodel:~> grep -i nopat -r /usr/src/linux/Documentation/* cer@nimrodel:~>
And why was necessary to add it to kernel line? Is it possible to fix suse kernel to make installing nvidia-legacy driver (even from repo) easily & smooth?
nvidia-bug-report → http://wklej.org/id/239658/ Xorg.0.log → http://wklej.org/id/239654/
You might consider opening a novell bugzilla, too. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkst9xgACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XZBQCffHVBv6NowULtirU/OVjy8tRT WVIAn0xj5C55AlFQFIvIcwkcG56UDrrZ =F4ur -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Sun, 2009-12-20 at 11:06 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Saturday, 2009-12-19 at 01:46 +0100, Mariusz Fik wrote:
I tried to install nvidia legacy driver. I downloaded legacy (96.43.14) from nvidia website, then installed as usual. After restart X crashes during start. All logs are under links (nopaste site).
Then I found in google, that "nopat" option added to kernel boot line might help. And it helped, X starts fine. What this option does?
I don't know. It is not documented:
cer@nimrodel:~> grep -i nopat -r /usr/src/linux/Documentation/*
No, but pat is, in Documentation/x86/pat.txt It handles the Page Attribute Table. Apparently the PAT code is buggy and can cause the X server to fail in some cases. The 'nopat' parameter disables the use of Page Attribute Tables Anders -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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