Linux - Nvidia driver issues

Sadly I have to talk about this again, since Slackware 12.2 I've been having problems with
my Nvidia GeForce 6400 card (I know it's old, shut up). And most of the times a little of
investigation and configuration would be enough, but not this time.

• Problem description: User switch action freezes all the system and the only way to restore it is by restarting it.

• Affected OS: Ubuntu Linux 10.4, Slackware Linux 13.1

As is not only affecting my Slackware installation, I'm pretty sure that is an issue with the kernel
module. For safety concerns (my information is important now), I'm forced to uninstall all
nvidia drivers and return to the legacy VESA drivers.

Is not as good as it used to, but at least is quite stable.

Slackware 13.1 - Nvidia driver issue

I've been installing the latest Slackware stable release on my main machine these days and I have to say, it's great!!!. Most of the problems of Slackware 13 are now solved, it's pretty stable and so far without exceptions!!.


But I found a problem not related to Slackware, there is a problem with the kernel series 2.6.33.x and Nvidia legacy drivers. In short, once the driver is installed, the 'logout' action freezes the system and the only way to restore it is restarting manually, tough.

The solution, edit file '/etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc' and set:

# by default is false
#TerminateServer=true 
TerminateServer=true

Solution source: black-screen-after-logout-in-slackware

Nvidia driver en Slackware Linux 13

Este mes se lanzó el release oficial de Slackware 13, la cual tiene muchos cambios con respecto a su anterior versión, el changelog brinda mas detalles sobre el asunto.

Para probar la nueva 'distro', actualicé segun las indicaciones del UPGRADE.txt y todo fue perfecto, una de las cosas que noté es que ahora Xorg brinda un soporte básico(sin direct rendering) para las tarjetas NVIDIA. Al instalar el driver para mi tarjeta de video(GForce 5200), el servidor X no podía iniciar; luego de revisar varios logs y foros, encontré la solución(temporal, supongo).

Solamente se debe agregar el siguiente parámetro al fichero '/etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc':

ServerCmd=/usr/bin/X -ignoreABI

Ahora solamente inicien el sistema X con 'init 4' y todo perfecto.