[Linux] Problems with nVidia drivers on Kubuntu AMD64

[Michael Beal]

I've been battilg this problem for a while now so I've pretty much
exhausted everything else.


The Issue: Upon enabling the proprietary nVidia drivers in xorg.conf
and rebooting, screen goes completely black and PCI-E video card goes
to sleep.  Keyboard becomes unresponsive.  Requires reset to recover.


The Setup: Removed nvidia-glx and linux-restricted-modules from system.
 Downloaded 169.07 driver from nVidia.  Installed module-assistant and
prepped system for compilation.  Retrieved remaining packages for
proper compilation.  Ran nVidia's installer and updated xorg.conf
accordingly.


The Hardware: MachSpeed MSNV-939 mobo with 2GB DDR RAM, PNY Verto
8500GT Video Card, AMD 64 X2 3800+ processor.  No other notable
hardware present.


The Logs: dmesg shows nvidia kernel module loads at boot like it's
supposed to.  Xorg.0.log shows nvidia module loads yet system never
makes it to assessing proper ModeLines.  Rolling back to "nv" driver in
xorg.conf and rebooting shows /dev/nvidia0 and /dev/nvidiactl0 are
being created as expected.


The BIG Question:  What's causing this and how do I fix it?  Any
ideas???

Michael


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