Hi, I'm not quite sure if this is the right list for my problem. I've got a MSI MS-StarForce with a GeForce 6600. I installed the Nvidia driver via YOU but after a restart of the xserver the system hangs. So I tried to use the 1.0-7676 Linux AMD64/EM64T Nvidia driver from their website, but it's the same problem. I included the an excerpt of /var/log/messages. I hope that somebody has got an idea. Uli Oct 10 13:12:58 init: Switching to runlevel: 5 Oct 10 13:12:58 kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped. Oct 10 13:12:58 kernel: Kernel log daemon terminating. Oct 10 13:12:59 syslog-ng[15884]: syslog-ng version 1.6.8 going down Oct 10 13:12:59 syslog-ng[16976]: syslog-ng version 1.6.8 starting Oct 10 13:13:01 syslog-ng[16976]: Changing permissions on special file /dev/xconsole Oct 10 13:13:01 syslog-ng[16976]: Changing permissions on special file /dev/tty10 Oct 10 13:13:01 kdm: :0[17009]: IO Error in XOpenDisplay Oct 10 13:13:01 kdm[16993]: Display :0 cannot be opened Oct 10 13:13:01 kdm[16993]: Unable to fire up local display :0; disabling. Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: klogd 1.4.1, log source = /proc/kmsg started. Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff8100576010a0 RIP: Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: <ffffffff885ea9af>{:nvidia:_nv002181rm+15} Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: PGD 8063 PUD a063 PMD 80000000576001e3 BAD Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: Oops: 0009 [1] SMP Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: CPU 0 Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: Modules linked in: nvidia hfsplus ipt_pkttype ipt_LOG ipt_limit nls_iso8859_1 nls_cp437 vfat fat subfs freq_table snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_seq snd_seq_device button battery ac af_packet ip6t_REJECT ipt_REJECT ipt_state iptable_mangle iptable_nat iptable_filter ip6table_mangle ip_conntrack ip_tables ip6table_filter ip6_tables floppy ohci1394 ieee1394 sk98lin snd_hda_intel i2c_i801 i2c_core snd_hda_codec intel_agp generic snd_pcm snd_timer snd soundcore snd_page_alloc shpchp pci_hotplug usb_storage parport_pc lp parport twofish cryptoloop edd usbhid uhci_hcd ohci_hcd ehci_hcd usbcore ipv6 nls_utf8 ntfs xfs exportfs dm_mod reiserfs fan thermal processor ide_cd cdrom it821x sg ata_piix libata piix sd_mod scsi_mod ide_disk ide_core Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: Pid: 17008, comm: X Tainted: P U 2.6.13-15-smp Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff885ea9af>] <ffffffff885ea9af>{:nvidia:_nv002181rm+15} Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: RSP: 0018:ffff810069249e28 EFLAGS: 00010286 Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: RAX: ffff810057601000 RBX: ffff810057601000 RCX: 0000000001bcb100 Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: ffff810057601000 Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: RBP: ffff810075b8a000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00000000cbfff063 Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: R10: 00000000cbfff073 R11: 0000ffff0000ffff R12: 0000000000000000 Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: R13: ffffc200110ea000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff8100754db800 Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: FS: 00002aaaab36a6e0(0000) GS:ffffffff8050e800 (0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: CR2: ffff810057600008 CR3: 000000007117a000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: Process X (pid: 17008, threadinfo ffff810069248000, task ffff81007f62b0d0) Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: Stack: ffff810075b8a000 ffffffff8871eba9 ffff810075565000 ffffffff885ea1f0 Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: ffff810075b8a000 ffffffff889fe640 ffff81007f2a0000 ffffffff885fa145 Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: ffff810057ac8050 00000021885fd4dc Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: Call Trace:<ffffffff8871eba9>{:nvidia:_nv004580rm+27} <ffffffff885ea1f0>{:nvidia:_nv002195rm+64} Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: <ffffffff885fa145>{:nvidia:_nv001419rm+315} <ffffffff885fd3b3>{:nvidia:rm_shutdown_adapter+99} Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: <ffffffff885d343a>{:nvidia:nv_kern_close+229} <ffffffff8018d3a2>{__fput+178} Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: <ffffffff8018a488>{filp_close+104} <ffffffff8018aaf7>{sys_close+151} Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: <ffffffff8010ed7e>{system_call+126} Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: Code: ff 93 a0 00 00 00 48 89 df ff 93 80 00 00 00 48 89 c3 48 85 Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: RIP <ffffffff885ea9af>{:nvidia:_nv002181rm+15} RSP <ffff810069249e28> Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: CR2: ffff8100576010a0 Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: <1>Unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff810057756000 RIP: Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: <ffffffff8023d669>{copy_page+73} Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: PGD 8063 PUD a063 PMD 80000000576001e3 BAD Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: Oops: 000b [2] SMP Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: CPU 1 Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: Modules linked in: nvidia hfsplus ipt_pkttype ipt_LOG ipt_limit nls_iso8859_1 nls_cp437 vfat fat subfs freq_table snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_seq snd_seq_device button battery ac af_packet ip6t_REJECT ipt_REJECT ipt_state iptable_mangle iptable_nat iptable_filter ip6table_mangle ip_conntrack ip_tables ip6table_filter ip6_tables floppy ohci1394 ieee1394 sk98lin snd_hda_intel i2c_i801 i2c_core snd_hda_codec intel_agp generic snd_pcm snd_timer snd soundcore snd_page_alloc shpchp pci_hotplug usb_storage parport_pc lp parport twofish cryptoloop edd usbhid uhci_hcd ohci_hcd ehci_hcd usbcore ipv6 nls_utf8 ntfs xfs exportfs dm_mod reiserfs fan thermal processor ide_cd cdrom it821x sg ata_piix libata piix sd_mod scsi_mod ide_disk ide_core Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: Pid: 3184, comm: udevd Tainted: P U 2.6.13-15-smp Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8023d669>] <ffffffff8023d669>{copy_page+73} Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: RSP: 0000:ffff81007d321dc8 EFLAGS: 00010206 Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00000000000001d1 RCX: 000000000000003a Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: RDX: 0000000000000003 RSI: ffff81005e70c000 RDI: ffff810057756000 Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: RBP: ffff8100024a8aa0 R08: 000000000051c1e8 R09: 000000000051d298 Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: R10: 000000000000427f R11: 0000000000000265 R12: 000000000051c17f Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: R13: ffff81007c993e40 R14: ffff81007fbc0040 R15: 000000000051c1f8 Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: FS: 00002aaaaadedb00(0000) GS:ffffffff8050e880 (0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: CR2: ffff810057600ab0 CR3: 000000007c40d000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: Process udevd (pid: 3184, threadinfo ffff81007d320000, task ffff81007fa8a820) Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: Stack: 0000000000000000 ffff810002321ad0 ffff81007c993e40 ffffffff80177b67 Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: ffff81007fbc00b0 ffff81007fbc00b0 ffff81007c41b010 000000005e70c065 Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: 00002aaaaadedb90 0000000000000000 Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: Call Trace:<ffffffff80177b67>{do_wp_page+583} <ffffffff80124907>{do_page_fault+1191} Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: <ffffffff80112dce>{do_gettimeofday+94} <ffffffff80193b6c>{nr_blockdev_pages+92} Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: <ffffffff80180a20>{si_swapinfo+16} <ffffffff80145897>{sys_sysinfo+391} Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: <ffffffff8010f779>{error_exit+0} Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: Code: 48 89 07 48 89 5f 08 48 89 57 10 4c 89 47 18 4c 89 4f 20 4c Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: RIP <ffffffff8023d669>{copy_page+73} RSP <ffff81007d321dc8> Oct 10 13:13:04 kernel: CR2: ffff810057756000 -- NEU: Telefon-Flatrate f�rs dt. 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