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Re: Nvidia module with kernels 2.6.35

 

I experienced freezes when nouveau or nvidia modules were loaded, do
you see one of them in lsmod ?

2010/9/17 Dinis Gökaydin <dgokaydin@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Another possible hint, at the same time the module started not inserting,
> somehow I had to start doing ifdown eth0 and ifup eth0 to change mac
> address, so it seems to be ignoring /etc/network/interfaces on boot. I think
> my computer is very confused :)
>
> 2010/9/17 Dinis Gökaydin <dgokaydin@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> I was actually using an older module found in
>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1366605 and in many other places.
>>
>> I tried acpi_call too, same effect. It says it worked after test_off.sh
>> and then It hangs after a few seconds and some aberrant behaviour where
>> everything slowly hangs or disappears and the pointer is the last thing to
>> go (could the intel graphics be off? if so, how to get them back on and why
>> are they off in the first place? i did not turn off intel graphics in the
>> bios)
>>
>> I did recompile it for the new kernel. No go with 2.6.35.19 and 2.6.35.20.
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 4:33 PM, luper rouch <luper.rouch@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> 2010/9/17 Dinis Gökaydin <dgokaydin@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>> > Hello everyone,
>>> >
>>> > I recently updated my ubuntu to the new beta 10.10. This comes with
>>> > kernel
>>> > 2.6.35 However, the module to deactivate the nvidia card stopped
>>> > working.
>>> > Everything hangs a few seconds after activating the module.
>>> >
>>> > Strangely, if I boot the 2.6.32 kernel I can still insert the module
>>> > and it
>>> > works, but I can't load it at startup or it hangs during boot. When I
>>> > had
>>> > 10.04 installed, the module worked fine with kernel 2.6.32.
>>> >
>>> > I updated the BIOS to the latest version from the asus website (211)
>>> > with no
>>> > effect.
>>> >
>>> > I believe this is not a kernel problem, given that I read a few posts
>>> > where
>>> > people have no trouble inserting the module with kernels 2.6.35.
>>> >
>>> > Any ideas before I reinstall 10.04?
>>> >
>>> > Thanks in advance!
>>> >
>>> > Dinis
>>> >
>>>
>>> What module are you talking about ? acpi_call ? Did you recompile it
>>> for the new kernel ?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Lup
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