Bugzilla – Bug 105259
3d support (NVIDIA) activated by default leads to frozen system
Last modified: 2005-08-19 07:03:44 UTC
I installed on a system with "NVIDIA NV34GL [Quadro FX 500/600 PCI]" and installed YOU patches (also the NVIDIA one). As a result, 3d support defaults to be activated. But, after the installation finished, the system hangs with a dead kernel (no reaction whatsoever). I press hard reset and boot into bootlevel 3, but when I start the graphic setup from text yast, it freezes again. Perhaps I'm naive about the NVIDIA patch, but that's what end users will do. I propose to deactivate 3d support by default or explicitely ask the user about it. I will attach YaST logs and hwinfo output. I'm also going to doublecheck whether this is really the default behaviour.
Created attachment 46340 [details] YaST2 logs
Created attachment 46342 [details] hwinfo output
something for Stefan
Please boot into runlevel 3 and attach the result of nvidia-bug-report.sh. BTW, you can quite easily change back to nv driver with "switch2nv", when the nvidia driver does *not* work for you. There's no way to disable 3D support when the nvidia driver is in use.
In the meantime I reinstalled to check if this is persistent. Now it's getting weird, since this time I'm not even allowed to enable 3d-support. I made two things different: First, I didn't install the MS fonts (patch), second I did not click "run YaST control center" at the end of installation. I'll attach the YaST logs and hwinfo from the second run, and also nvidia-bug-report.sh (I'm not sure if this makes sense now, but for any case). Then I'll let it reinstall over night. Better let it rest until tomorrow and see what happens. It might have been just a random particle, or perhaps something with the "run YaST control center" is wrong.
Created attachment 46356 [details] YaST2 logs from second install (no 3d support available)
Created attachment 46357 [details] hwinfo output from second run
there is no nvidia-bug-report.sh in the PATH (second run). I'll leave it on NEEDINFO until after I had another try with "run YaST control center".
Created attachment 46444 [details] output of nvidia-bug-report.sh Hehe, I hit the bug again. But I don't think that it's got anything to do with the "run YaST control center", because now the 3d support was available also in the install YaST, and it was not in the second run.
Created attachment 46445 [details] YaST2 logs from 3rd run In case you find these YaST logs useful.
Stefan, if you need access to the machine, it's "cohen" in my office.
The script behind the NVIDIA driver patch is still for the driver version of Beta1 and cannot work with Beta2. Just verified. Rudi/Harald?
at least /mounts/mirror-rw/SuSE/ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/10.0/scripts/fetchnvidia.sh is correct already, just let the mirrors catch up.