nVidia Driver consumes CPU

[jroggow]

I'm trying to build a Linux HTPC. I have a dual core 64 bit Opteron with an nVidia GeForce 7300 GT and Slackware 12 with a custom 2.6.23.1 kernel.

I've tried a number of nVidia drivers. I had trouble building the kernel module until finding a patch for the x86-1.0-9755 at http://home.hiwaay.net/~craigg/linux/NV_patch.html. After patching the module compiled. I get no errors in the X11 log or the nvidia-installer log; all of the modules including nvidia seem to load successfully after startx. However, the X server consumes virtually all of the CPU resources and all I see is a black screen. SSH lets me poke around and X is running like mad.

I've tried tweaking the xorg.conf file but I've not found the solution yet, and I'm suspect the problem isn't a simple configuration error.

Any ideas would be most appreciated.

J.

[netllama]

I'm not clear why you're using an old, unsupported version of the nvidia driver, when 100.14.19 should install just fine with your kernel?

Also, see the forum sticky posts.