screen tuns off with latest stable driver

[kingi89]

Originally Posted by el_itur

The boot process went fine until its asked to load glx then the system just freezes and the screen turns off. It's like the whole computer has went off. I can't turn to TTY or anything, jst have to hard reboot. Regardless which driver I use or if I have or not compiz enbled. It always hangs.

Sounds quite similar than my problem, so could you tell me if you're able to get to TTY by pressing SAK (Shift+Alt+Ctrl+SysRQ+K and yes, it's pretty diffucult combo ). It may take a little while (~10-20 sec).

[dahveed3]

Yes, then it's different because I'm having no 2D problems and glx is loading fine. It can't be tested with glxgears or work with 3D games but all logs and system tools say it should be working as all the correct stuff is loaded.

Oh, and in another aside for interested Compiz Fusion folks on Debian. The compiz command is actually the compiz-manager script so no additional switches besides compiz & are necessary. Compiz Manager figures out what's needed and just runs compiz.real with whatever options it deems necessary.

Darn. Debian is running so nice except for this. But I'm going to have to wipe it to test what happens in SUSE. If it's the same there I'll switch back to my Gigabyte card. Maybe it doesn't like the DVI to VGA monitor connector adapter? This PNY card has that because the card only has DVI's built in. The Gigabyte is a standard vga connector built in. But then why did the other PNY I used a few months ago work? It doesn't make sense. It's senseless!

[dahveed3]

Ha! It was the card!

I recalled my troubles getting the Vista WEI test to not freeze on the initial Aero 3D part and than I had only tested the card on not too intensive games. So I booted into Vista and installed a real 3D game and sure enough it froze as soon as the 3D part started.

I uninstalled the driver, shutdown, and put back my Gigabyte. Once I got the latest NVidia Vista whql's installed I played the game and it worked fine.

Having no idea what's done in Linux when changing cards, and knowing that at least it's the same chip albeit from a different manufacturer, I just booted up to see what would happen.

It works fine! The glxgears ran well, as does Compiz Fusion. No more freeze.

Darn. I'd rather have the latest driver now, as that's what I usually do. But the Debian maintainer usually gets a final release into unstable eventually so I guess I'll wait as long as I don't experience too many problems. The 100.14.19-1 will do for now.

Now I've got to call Monday and see about an RMA. Good thing I tested it before the warranty was out.

[el_itur]

Originally Posted by kingi89

Sounds quite similar than my problem, so could you tell me if you're able to get to TTY by pressing SAK (Shift+Alt+Ctrl+SysRQ+K and yes, it's pretty diffucult combo ). It may take a little while (~10-20 sec).

Will try that when I return from xmas, (If I'm don't end up broken like my card :P)

Thanks you all, have a great Christmas.