Yep, me again. What I'm doing now is trying to get the amd64 version to work with my new Nvidia 7800 GS video card. I can get the proprietary driver to install, however the system locks up as soon as I try anything to do with 3D, ie glxgears, glxinfo, etc, and I have to do a hard reboot. It also did it when I installed the driver from the repositories. Now, this is the exact same problem I had with my ATI X850 XT. I thought the problem was with the ATI drivers, which is why I bought the nvidia card. Could this be a problem with my motherboard (Asus P5P800 SE)? Have anyone else had problems installing the drivers for 64-bit? I will add that this also happens with Suse 10.2 amd64.

What is the exact kernel version? and kernel-modules?

Do you actually experience a kernel panic or can you still get to a terminal using CTL+ALT+F1 ?
If you can get into a terminal, what does the dmesg command tell you? There may be relevant information in /var/log/messages and for sure some in /var/log/Xorg.0.log

Might also want to comment out anything related to dri in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, restart X and try again.

tim@tim-ubuntu:~$ uname -r
2.6.17-11-generic

tim@tim-ubuntu:~$ dmesg
[ 0.000000] Bootdata ok (command line is root=/dev/sda1 ro quiet splash)
[ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.17-11-generic (root@king) (gcc version 4.1.2 20060928 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.1-13ubuntu5)) #2 SMP Thu Feb 1 18:03:05 UTC 2007 (Ubuntu 2.6.17-11.35-generic)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000007ffb0000 (usable)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000007ffb0000 - 000000007ffc0000 (ACPI data)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000007ffc0000 - 000000007fff0000 (ACPI NVS)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000007fff0000 - 0000000080000000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] DMI 2.3 present.
[ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDP (v000 ACPIAM ) @ 0x00000000000facd0
[ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDT (v001 A M I OEMRSDT 0x03000628 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x000000007ffb0000
[ 0.000000] ACPI: FADT (v002 A M I OEMFACP 0x03000628 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x000000007ffb0200
[ 0.000000] ACPI: MADT (v001 A M I OEMAPIC 0x03000628 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x000000007ffb0390
[ 0.000000] ACPI: OEMB (v001 A M I OEMBIOS 0x03000628 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x000000007ffc0040
[ 0.000000] ACPI: DSDT (v001 A0331 A0331039 0x00000039 INTL 0x02002026) @ 0x0000000000000000
[ 0.000000] No NUMA configuration found
[ 0.000000] Faking a node at 0000000000000000-000000007ffb0000
[ 0.000000] Bootmem setup node 0 0000000000000000-000000007ffb0000
[ 0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 515593
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 2591 pages, LIFO batch:0
[ 0.000000] DMA32 zone: 513002 pages, LIFO batch:31
[ 0.000000] ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x808
[ 0.000000] ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
[ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
[ 0.000000] Processor #0 15:6 APIC version 20
[ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x01] enabled)
[ 0.000000] Processor #1 15:6 APIC version 20
[ 0.000000] ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
[ 0.000000] IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
[ 0.000000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
[ 0.000000] ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
[ 0.000000] ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.
[ 0.000000] Setting APIC routing to physical flat
[ 0.000000] Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
[ 0.000000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 88000000 (gap: 80000000:7fb80000)
[ 0.000000] Checking aperture...
[ 0.000000] SMP: Allowing 2 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs
[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda1 ro quiet splash
[ 0.000000] Initializing CPU#0
[ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 32768 bytes)
[ 0.000000] time.c: Using 3.579545 MHz WALL PM GTOD PIT/TSC timer.
[ 0.000000] time.c: Detected 3601.138 MHz processor.
[ 13.277788] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
[ 13.279011] Dentry cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes)
[ 13.280112] Inode-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
[ 13.300240] Memory: 2053368k/2096832k available (2129k kernel code, 43076k reserved, 1424k data, 188k init)
[ 13.378015] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 7207.00 BogoMIPS (lpj=14414011)
[ 13.378070] Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
[ 13.378075] SELinux: Disabled at boot.
[ 13.378098] Mount-cache hash table entries: 256
[ 13.378248] CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 16K
[ 13.378251] CPU: L2 cache: 2048K
[ 13.378254] using mwait in idle threads.
[ 13.378256] CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
[ 13.378258] CPU: Processor Core ID: 0
[ 13.378267] CPU0: Thermal monitoring enabled (TM1)
[ 13.378279] SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
[ 13.378575] checking if image is initramfs... it is
[ 13.798869] Freeing initrd memory: 5751k freed
[ 13.802577] ACPI: Core revision 20060707
[ 13.802740] ACPI: Looking for DSDT ... not found!
[ 13.844610] Using local APIC timer interrupts.
[ 13.872347] result 15004629
[ 13.872348] Detected 15.004 MHz APIC timer.
[ 13.873660] SMP alternatives: switching to SMP code
[ 13.873838] Booting processor 1/2 APIC 0x1
[ 13.884338] Initializing CPU#1
[ 13.961299] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 7202.60 BogoMIPS (lpj=14405210)
[ 13.961308] CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 16K
[ 13.961310] CPU: L2 cache: 2048K
[ 13.961313] CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
[ 13.961314] CPU: Processor Core ID: 1
[ 13.961323] CPU1: Thermal monitoring enabled (TM1)
[ 13.961625] Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.00GHz stepping 02
[ 13.965307] APIC error on CPU1: 00(40)
[ 13.965319] Brought up 2 CPUs
[ 13.965347] testing NMI watchdog ... OK.
[ 14.993525] migration_cost=1205
[ 14.993823] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[ 14.993847] ACPI: bus type pci registered
[ 14.993855] PCI: Using configuration type 1
[ 14.997697] ACPI: Interpreter enabled
[ 14.997700] ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
[ 14.998573] ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
[ 14.998576] PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
[ 15.000904] PCI quirk: region 0800-087f claimed by ICH4 ACPI/GPIO/TCO
[ 15.000909] PCI quirk: region 0480-04bf claimed by ICH4 GPIO
[ 15.000953] PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:1f.1
[ 15.001114] Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
[ 15.001428] PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
[ 15.001454] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
[ 15.008678] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.P0P4._PRT]
[ 15.013740] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15)
[ 15.013944] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15)
[ 15.014144] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
[ 15.014346] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs *3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
[ 15.014546] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15)
[ 15.014749] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 *4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
[ 15.014949] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 *7 10 11 12 14 15)
[ 15.015151] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
[ 15.015233] Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
[ 15.015242] pnp: PnP ACPI init
[ 15.018196] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 12 devices
[ 15.018237] PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
[ 15.018239] PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
[ 15.018341] PCI-DMA: Disabling IOMMU.
[ 15.018820] pnp: 00:08: ioport range 0x290-0x297 has been reserved
[ 15.019029] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
[ 15.019032] IO window: d000-dfff
[ 15.019036] MEM window: f9000000-fbefffff
[ 15.019040] PREFETCH window: e0000000-f7ffffff
[ 15.019044] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0
[ 15.019046] IO window: e000-efff
[ 15.019051] MEM window: fbf00000-fbffffff
[ 15.019054] PREFETCH window: disabled.
[ 15.019067] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1e.0 to 64
[ 15.019105] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[ 15.051982] IP route cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
[ 15.052224] TCP established hash table entries: 262144 (order: 10, 4194304 bytes)
[ 15.054579] TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
[ 15.055101] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
[ 15.055103] TCP reno registered
[ 15.055760] IA32 emulation $Id: sys_ia32.c,v 1.32 2002/03/24 13:02:28 ak Exp $
[ 15.056196] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
[ 15.056209] audit(1171739125.788:1): initialized
[ 15.056397] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
[ 15.056417] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 512 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 15.056460] Initializing Cryptographic API
[ 15.056463] io scheduler noop registered
[ 15.056473] io scheduler anticipatory registered
[ 15.056481] io scheduler deadline registered
[ 15.056500] io scheduler cfq registered (default)
[ 15.079366] Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
[ 15.079407] Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
[ 15.079409] Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
[ 15.079940] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[ 15.080502] RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 65536K size 1024 blocksize
[ 15.080612] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
[ 15.080615] ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
[ 15.080828] PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K,PNP0f03:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
[ 15.082873] serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
[ 15.082984] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
[ 15.083190] TCP bic registered
[ 15.083359] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[ 15.083363] NET: Registered protocol family 8
[ 15.083365] NET: Registered protocol family 20
[ 15.083469] ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5)
[ 15.083505] drivers/rtc/hctosys.c: unable to open rtc device (rtc0)
[ 15.083528] Freeing unused kernel memory: 188k freed
[ 15.113730] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
[ 15.131135] vga16fb: initializing
[ 15.131140] vga16fb: mapped to 0xffff8100000a0000
[ 15.312409] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x25
[ 15.312414] fb0: VGA16 VGA frame buffer device
[ 16.340152] Capability LSM initialized
[ 16.366888] ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports 8 throttling states)
[ 16.667133] ICH5: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
[ 16.667141] PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:1f.1 (0005 -> 0007)
[ 16.667149] GSI 16 sharing vector 0xA9 and IRQ 16
[ 16.667152] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
[ 16.667162] ICH5: chipset revision 2
[ 16.667163] ICH5: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
[ 16.667173] ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfc00-0xfc07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
[ 16.667183] ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfc08-0xfc0f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
[ 16.667192] Probing IDE interface ide0...
[ 16.957655] hda: SAMSUNG SP0802N, ATA DISK drive
[ 17.409084] hdb: LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1693S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
[ 17.469240] ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
[ 17.472153] Probing IDE interface ide1...
[ 18.048307] hda: max request size: 512KiB
[ 18.048407] hda: 156368016 sectors (80060 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100)
[ 18.048625] hda: cache flushes supported
[ 18.048659] hda: hda1
[ 18.057097] hdb: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(66)
[ 18.057104] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[ 18.218143] SCSI subsystem initialized
[ 18.221241] libata version 1.20 loaded.
[ 18.221987] ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: version 1.05
[ 18.222001] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
[ 18.222013] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64
[ 18.222057] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xB400 ctl 0xB002 bmdma 0xA000 irq 169
[ 18.222083] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xA800 ctl 0xA402 bmdma 0xA008 irq 169
[ 18.387908] ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:746b 83:7f01 84:4023 85:7469 86:3c01 87:4023 88:207f
[ 18.387912] ata1: dev 0 ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 234441648 sectors: LBA48
[ 18.399893] ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
[ 18.399897] scsi0 : ata_piix
[ 18.569653] scsi1 : ata_piix
[ 18.569757] Vendor: ATA Model: WDC WD1200JS-00M Rev: 02.0
[ 18.569768] Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
[ 18.574478] SCSI device sda: 234441648 512-byte hdwr sectors (120034 MB)
[ 18.574491] sda: Write Protect is off
[ 18.574494] sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 18.574513] SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
[ 18.574558] SCSI device sda: 234441648 512-byte hdwr sectors (120034 MB)
[ 18.574569] sda: Write Protect is off
[ 18.574571] sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 18.574590] SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
[ 18.574594] sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 >
[ 18.606057] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
[ 18.771089] Probing IDE interface ide1...
[ 18.787009] usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
[ 18.787032] usbcore: registered new driver hub
[ 18.787726] USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
[ 18.787773] GSI 17 sharing vector 0xB1 and IRQ 17
[ 18.787776] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
[ 18.787786] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64
[ 18.787789] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller
[ 18.787897] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[ 18.787919] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 177, io base 0x0000b800
[ 18.787995] usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 18.788015] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 18.788021] hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 18.818696] ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
[ 18.895167] GSI 18 sharing vector 0xB9 and IRQ 18
[ 18.895170] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.1[B] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
[ 18.895181] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.1 to 64
[ 18.895184] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller
[ 18.895209] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
[ 18.895234] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 185, io base 0x0000c000
[ 18.895303] usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 18.895325] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 18.895330] hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 19.003008] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.2[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
[ 19.003015] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.2 to 64
[ 19.003018] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: UHCI Host Controller
[ 19.003037] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
[ 19.003055] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 169, io base 0x0000c400
[ 19.003113] usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 19.003133] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 19.003139] hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 19.110852] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.3[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
[ 19.110859] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.3 to 64
[ 19.110861] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: UHCI Host Controller
[ 19.110880] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
[ 19.110897] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: irq 177, io base 0x0000c800
[ 19.110957] usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 19.110973] hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 19.110978] hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 19.214846] GSI 19 sharing vector 0xC1 and IRQ 19
[ 19.214849] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[D] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 193
[ 19.215594] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64
[ 19.215601] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller
[ 19.215658] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
[ 19.215695] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: debug port 1
[ 19.215700] PCI: cache line size of 128 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7
[ 19.215713] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 193, io mem 0xf8fffc00
[ 19.219577] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
[ 19.219930] usb usb5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 19.219951] hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 19.219957] hub 5-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
[ 19.326741] GSI 20 sharing vector 0xC9 and IRQ 20
[ 19.326745] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:0c.2[B] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 201
[ 19.376856] ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[201] MMIO=[fbfdb800-fbfdbfff] Max Packet=[2048] IR/IT contexts=[4/8]
[ 19.415315] Attempting manual resume
[ 19.425102] EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem.
[ 19.425105] EXT3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery.
[ 19.795717] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
[ 19.795731] EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
[ 19.796056] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[ 20.648988] ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[00023c015104a09e]
[ 27.506898] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
[ 27.535248] input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input1
[ 27.539274] FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
[ 27.618848] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
[ 27.621539] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
[ 27.633224] agpgart: Detected an Intel 865 Chipset.
[ 27.637456] agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xdc000000
[ 27.648344] hw_random hardware driver 1.0.0 loaded
[ 28.019945] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[ 28.112295] gameport: EMU10K1 is pci0000:02:0c.1/gameport0, io 0xe400, speed 1187kHz
[ 28.120193] Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.1.9-k4
[ 28.120197] Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation.
[ 28.120245] GSI 21 sharing vector 0xD1 and IRQ 21
[ 28.120248] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:05.0[A] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 209
[ 28.361080] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
[ 28.382540] e1000: 0000:02:05.0: e1000_probe: (PCI:33MHz:32-bit) 00:17:31:22:62:e4
[ 28.419820] e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
[ 28.632476] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
[ 28.632639] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 1.0-9746 Fri Dec 15 10:19:35 PST 2006
[ 28.771367] GSI 22 sharing vector 0xD9 and IRQ 22
[ 28.771372] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:0c.0[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 217
[ 28.774307] Installing spdif_bug patch: Audigy 2 ZS [SB0350]
[ 29.013884] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
[ 29.048041] ieee1394: sbp2: Driver forced to serialize I/O (serialize_io=1)
[ 29.048045] ieee1394: sbp2: Try serialize_io=0 for better performance
[ 29.075466] Adding 4771264k swap on /dev/disk/by-uuid/bd322ba2-cc08-4571-90a8-af24e70da2d1. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:4771264k
[ 29.124669] EXT3 FS on sda1, internal journal
[ 29.127582] input: ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse as /class/input/input2
[ 29.170282] ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output
[ 29.719007] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[ 31.107991] e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex
[ 35.749170] ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
[ 35.749202] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
[ 35.835379] ibm_acpi: ec object not found
[ 35.868239] pcc_acpi: loading...
[ 38.286833] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 38.286923] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
[ 38.287334] IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
[ 38.883105] agpgart: Found an AGP 3.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
[ 38.883122] agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 8x mode
[ 38.883150] agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 8x mode
[ 41.891191] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.8
[ 41.891196] NET: Registered protocol family 31
[ 41.891197] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[ 41.891211] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[ 41.902162] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.8
[ 41.902168] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[ 41.911843] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[ 41.911857] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[ 41.911859] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.7
[ 48.725349] eth0: no IPv6 routers present


What's kernel panic? Ubuntu runs just fine, like nothing's wrong, until I try to do something with 3D.


This is my xorg.conf;

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder26) Fri Dec 15 10:40:27 PST 2006

# /etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the /etc/X11/xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man /etc/X11/xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen" 0 0
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
InputDevice "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"
EndSection

Section "Files"

# path to defoma fonts
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "i2c"
Load "bitmap"
Load "ddc"
Load "extmod"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "int10"
Load "type1"
Load "vbe"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbOptions" "lv3:ralt_switch"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# /dev/input/event
# for USB
Identifier "stylus"
Driver "wacom"
Option "Device" "/dev/wacom" # Change to
Option "Type" "stylus"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# /dev/input/event
# for USB
Identifier "eraser"
Driver "wacom"
Option "Device" "/dev/wacom" # Change to
Option "Type" "eraser"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# /dev/input/event
# for USB
Identifier "cursor"
Driver "wacom"
Option "Device" "/dev/wacom" # Change to
Option "Type" "cursor"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "SAMSUNG"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "NVIDIA Corporation NVIDIA Default Card"
Driver "nvidia"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "NVIDIA Corporation NVIDIA Default Card"
Monitor "SAMSUNG"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Disable"
EndSection

That looks OK.

What I meant by kernel panic was does the entire system lock up or does just X lock up? CTL+ALT+F1 should take you to a terminal if it's not a kernel panic.

If you can get to a terminal IMMEDIATELY AFTER the X crash and run:

tail -n 50 /var/log/Xorg.0.log

that could very well point out the problem.



What subdirectories are in your /lib/modules directory. The reason I asked that is because I noticed a couple of weeks ago, the nvidia-glx upgrade kept putting the drivers in the incorrect kernel module directory.



Also, are you using the standard /etc/apt/sources.list?

If not, to get the 'bleeding edge' drivers, add:

deb http://www.albertomilone.com/drivers/edgy/latest/64bit binary/

then:

wget http://albertomilone.com/drivers/tseliot.asc
gpg --import tseliot.asc
gpg --export --armor albertomilone@alice.it | sudo apt-key add -

oops, forgot:
http://www.albertomilone.com/instructions.html

I looked around some and you are not alone. Nvidia really needs to release hardware specs to Xorg. Goes for ATI and just about every stinking wireless card manufacturer, as well!

tim@tim-ubuntu:/lib/modules$ dir
2.6.17-10-generic 2.6.17-11-generic

It's a hard lockup. It won't allow me to alt-ctrl-f1. Maybe I'll give those other drivers a try. What I did this time was download the proprietary drivers from nvidia and followed the install here for method 2;

http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/Latest_Nvidia_Edgy

I tried method 1 last night, and had problems.

Let me add, that it will run glxgears, and put up the gears window, but it locks as soon as I close that window.

tim@tim-ubuntu:/lib/modules$ dir
2.6.17-10-generic 2.6.17-11-generic
That's what I was thinking.
Do each of them have a 'nvidia' directory in them? and are they alike?
I have seen Ubuntu load the nvidia driver fine w/zero errors, but from the wrong module directory. My Beryl setup went completely crapped out on me. That happened AFTER upgrading to 2.6.17-11-generic. I basically downgraded back to 2.6.17-10-generic and had to remove the everything related to 2.6.17-11-generic from the system, INCLUDING all of the nvidia stuff. It wasn't too hard, just not fun.

Let me add, that it will run glxgears, and put up the gears window, but it locks as soon as I close that window.
Try that again, but first, open another terminal (make the window larger) and type:
sudo tail -f /var/log/Xorg.0.log

'tail -f' will watch the log file in real time, watch that as you try start/stop glxgears. See if anything jumps out at you.

That's what I was thinking.
Do each of them have a 'nvidia' directory in them? and are they alike?
I have seen Ubuntu load the nvidia driver fine w/zero errors, but from the wrong module directory. My Beryl setup went completely crapped out on me. That happened AFTER upgrading to 2.6.17-11-generic. I basically downgraded back to 2.6.17-10-generic and had to remove the everything related to 2.6.17-11-generic from the system, INCLUDING all of the nvidia stuff. It wasn't too hard, just not fun.

That's a thought. Since I just re-installed, I should do it again and not upgrade the kernel and see what happens.

Actually, both lib/modules and lib64/modules have both kernel directories, and it's all identical.

Try that again, but first, open another terminal (make the window larger) and type:
sudo tail -f /var/log/Xorg.0.log

'tail -f' will watch the log file in real time, watch that as you try start/stop glxgears. See if anything jumps out at you.

This is what comes up when I run it;

tim@tim-ubuntu:~$ sudo tail -f /var/log/Xorg.0.log
Password:
(EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/wacom
No such file or directory.
Error opening /dev/wacom : Success
(EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/wacom
No such file or directory.
Error opening /dev/wacom : Success
(II) Configured Mouse: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/TTF/, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/OTF, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/CID/, removing from list!

When I run and close glxgears, it seems to lock up also and doesn't update.

Well, I'm in the middle of reloading the 32bit version. I'm going to load the amd64 on a different system tomorrow with the same video card. I just have to verify it's not this mb.

Can anyone tell me any advantage to going 64 bit? As far as I know, most programs/games are still 32 bit.

yeah i loaded the 64 and should have just stuck with 32bit, It's a pain cause it wants everything in 64 and some stuff like wine are 32.

Well, I'm in the middle of reloading the 32bit version. I'm going to load the amd64 on a different system tomorrow with the same video card. I just have to verify it's not this mb.

Can anyone tell me any advantage to going 64 bit? As far as I know, most programs/games are still 32 bit.
The kernel and most all of the system libraries run 64-bit mode and have been able to for some time, now. More and more userland tools are ported everyday and only a few minor ones haven't been ported.
You will notice a theme going with the pieces that do not run in 64-bit mode, Proprietary Drivers! Things like Flash, Nvidia/ATI drivers, etc. It's painfully obvious. Things are picking up.
Right now, IMO, the only way to fully take advantage of 64-bit w/Linux is to use Gentoo. Ubuntu is very close. Debian might be better. Just remember, Gentoo is 100% source code, you compile the entire system from scratch and it screams! It can be an adventure to learn, but it's worth it if your a power/control freak. The Gentoo portage tree, based off Freebsd ports, is unbelievable. I use OpenBSD more than anything else and I can tell you that it (OBSD) has been singing sweet songs on amd64 Opterons. Like Gentoo, I compile all my OBSD systems and apps from the src tree after install.


I still see some issues with the way Ubuntu deals with multiple kernels on a system. I fully understand why they do it and it's easier for beginners to deal with, but confusing to say the least. You might want to try compiling your own kernel yourself. You will have to add the nvidia-kernel-sources and ant other module sources, too. Might not be the most fun, but it is educational and could point out the problems.

I know it's a stupid question and you probably already have, but are you sure your MB bios is up to date? I find it entertaining(!) how many broken motherboards are sold only to work after the 3rd or 4th bios upgrade is released.


Mike, I sent you a link about the 64-bit WINE a couple of weeks ago, here it is again:
http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOn64bit#head-56206e8bc74083807ffe06ccb471d3f964cb670a

Buickman, have you had a look at THIS (http://albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html)? That Albert Milone guy has been busy.
It's a script that will:

1) detect the model of your graphic card (ATI and Nvidia cards are supported)
2) download the right version of the proprietary driver for your ATI or Nvidia card from ATI or Nvidia's websites
3) handle the dependencies (compilers, OpenGL, etc.) required to build the module
4) install the driver
5) set up your xorg.conf (i.e. the configuration file of the Xserver) for you
6) restart the Xserver for you (if you wish so)


Basically does what you are going to be doing manually, but easier. I have NOT tried it, but everyone that has is happy, from what I hear.

The bios are up to date, unfortunatly they haven't released any new bios in some time, but I check once in a while. I've got a long ways to go before I'm ready to start compiling my own kernels, but maybe I'll have to get a copy of Gentoo and start playing with it.

I found an even easier way to install the nvidia/xgl/beryl. I use automatix for a lot of things, but they have automatix bleeder also. Just found that last night. It installed everything just by selecting them, and it works great.

www.getautomatix.com

Automatix bleeder only works with 386 edgy.

Actually, Ubuntu and Debian are great places to learn how to compile your kernel. Every kernel-image that is running has a corresponding config-`uname -r` [config-KERNEL_VERSION] inside of boot. You can use that as a template as for what to include or not include. Plus, any mistakes you make, you just go back and recompile. As long as you leave a kernel-image from Ubuntu in your menu.lst, you'll always have the option to safely boot into that as you fix your issues.

Kernel compiling is really not that difficult, and you get a chance to learn alot.

Gentoo is great, but put some time aside if you're gonna build Gnome or KDE.

Speaking of kernels, when I used automatix to install the nvidia/xgl/beryl, it added 2 new entries at the top of the grub menu;

Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.17-11-386
Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.17-11-386 (recovery mode)

I didn't really look at it closely at first, but when I booted into it, it recognized my system as a single core, rather than a dual-core. It left the generic kernel entries there, and I can still boot into that, which does see my dual core. Not a real problem, but it got me to thinking about these kernels. With a dual-core, shouldn't it be loading the SMP kernel? I ask because I was reading a book today at work about compiling kernels and it mentioned the SMP kernel.

The newer *-generic kernel namespace is all of the modes in one. There won't be any more 2.6.X-k7, 2,6.X-386 (686) and so on. Supposedly the -generic kernel is gonna detect and load what it needs to depending on the arch it's running on.

So, when it is working correctly, you should be seeing the benefits of SMP.