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6xxx doesn't work anymore in linux, while in windows it is fine
at home i have to switch from XP to linux (debian sid, for what is
worth) on the same PC, on both OS i use NVIDIA's drivers yesterday evening i unhappily put XP on sleep when i intended to switch off my computer (it was the first time in my life that i used that feature of windows) when i switched on the PC to be able to definitively turn it off, the screen went dark gray, the system was frozen and i had to do an hard switch of the electric current after this accident, linux has not been able to turn on the graphical nodes of my nvidia card (dark gray screen, frozen system exactly as above) while windows has no problems at all after the 1st failure (-switchoff) in order, i tried the following 1. recompile and reinstall and use the "nvidia" driver, 2. use the "nv" driver, 3. use the "noveau" driver, 4. start windows, get the graphical screen and hard switch the electricity, restart with linux 5. take the time to write to you... there is something i could do? or i have to change my video card? 1 to 4 gave me no joy, i have still a little hope for #5... thanks in advance (ask for further details as you see fit) ciao g |
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Giacomo Boffi wrote:
at home i have to switch from XP to linux (debian sid, for what is worth) on the same PC, on both OS i use NVIDIA's drivers yesterday evening i unhappily put XP on sleep when i intended to switch off my computer (it was the first time in my life that i used that feature of windows) when i switched on the PC to be able to definitively turn it off, the screen went dark gray, the system was frozen and i had to do an hard switch of the electric current after this accident, linux has not been able to turn on the graphical nodes of my nvidia card (dark gray screen, frozen system exactly as above) while windows has no problems at all after the 1st failure (-switchoff) in order, i tried the following 1. recompile and reinstall and use the "nvidia" driver, 2. use the "nv" driver, 3. use the "noveau" driver, 4. start windows, get the graphical screen and hard switch the electricity, restart with linux 5. take the time to write to you... there is something i could do? or i have to change my video card? 1 to 4 gave me no joy, i have still a little hope for #5... thanks in advance (ask for further details as you see fit) Try a live bootable Linux CD and see if that works, i.e. boots into a graphical screen. It is a strange story. Do not really see how what happened may have caused this. The sleep mode is a big problem on my computer as well, it crashes with a lot of errors find while disk checking afterwards. Both in Linux as in Windows. I never use it though on both I have used it, just like you, by accident. Perhaps windows has send some very weird data to the hd so that something on your Linux partition was damaged. Very exotical scenario I admit, but can't think of something else (in my case it is a bit less unlikely because I mount my ext2 partitions in windows and this sleep mode does cause many disk errors when I use it). So I would try that live cd. And maybe you might create a small partition to install ubuntu or so, doesn't take that long, and see whether you can get the nvidia drivers to work in that fresh install. Before putting the blame on the videocard and buying a new one, I would at least try to reinstall Linux. Doesn't cost a send. Real damage to the card, which doesn't prevent if from working in windows seems highly unlikely to me. Good luck! Greetings, Rene |
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Rene writes:
Try a live bootable Linux CD and see if that works, i.e. boots into a graphical screen. i received the same advice from different sources, i have to try it :-) It is a strange story. Do not really see how what happened may have caused this. strange i say too! my guess is that xp put something in non-volatile storage on my card while preparing for sleep mode... [...] Perhaps windows has send some very weird data to the hd so that something on your Linux partition was damaged. i tried 5 different drivers... nvidia, recompiled nvidia, nv, noveau and vesa: xp should have a 12/10 sight to bork all this disk sectors and nothing else! So I would try that live cd. so i will do [...] Real damage to the card, which doesn't prevent if from working in windows seems highly unlikely to me. unlikely it is thank you for your advice and the words of comfort g |
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deimos deimos@localhost writes:
This may be related to the behavior of some monitors/DVI ports as described by Viewsonic tech support to me once. Apparently a DVI port (on the video card) can go "dormant" if it does not establish a connection with the monitor device or has some sort of hardware error. This can be like a dead port; but another display or another port on the card works just fine. i confess my ignorance: here i have a really old (and really fine samsung CRT monitor connected to my GF6200 with a VGA cable, is it possible that DVI "lock" plays a role in this? You might find that if you simply switch to a different display temporarily; it'll "come back to life". i can try to connect my monitor with a VGA cable and DVI-VGA adapter, is this what you are proposing? [...] This could all be unrelated; but it seems to me that DVI has memory of sorts that is dependent on the device connected and I've seen many threads over the years describing a similar solid color screen or no display at all after the display failing to wake up. [...] oh well! do you know the italian saying "mal comune mezzo gaudio"? thank you for your good advice, ciao g |
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