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Re: Nvidia module with kernels 2.6.35

 

Success! I had a nouveau module that the new version of ubuntu sneakily
decided to load against my will.

Thanks for the help Luper! Super Luper I would say ;)

2010/9/17 luper rouch <luper.rouch@xxxxxxxxx>

> 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 ?
> >>>
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