[arch-general] Nvidia Driver issues

[Don deJuan]

On 01/30/2012 08:23 AM, Karol Babioch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am 30.01.2012 13:33, schrieb Kevin Chadwick:
>> I know nothing about the binary blob on arch but download the more
>> upto date blob from nvidia.com for my TVs running mythbuntu,
>
> Well, Arch is a rolling release distro and it usually takes just hours
> to a few couple of days until the official releases hit the repositories ;).
>
> Sure enough, the Arch package is up to date, so this shouldn't be a
> problem. As long as you don't run a custom kernel you don't have to
> worry about any kernel modules either.
>
> Am 30.01.2012 08:47, schrieb Don deJuan:
>> If anyone has any other tips/suggestions I am open to them. Thanks for
>> your time.
>
> Obviously I don't know that much about the nvidia package myself, so
> unfortunately there isn't much I can tell you. When running into the
> already mentioned problems with the closed source driver, I was pointed
> to [1], which seems to be the official place to go when running into
> trouble.
>
> Just another guess: Have you tried any other distro (or even Windows for
> that matter) in order to exclude any kind of hardware defect?
>
> Best regards,
> Karol Babioch
>
> [1] http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14

Well still nothing in the logs that even resemble any help for me which 
is becoming frustrating.

Though with further testing what I thought helped does not appear to 
have. I was able to shutdown/reboot about 10 times smoothly. Then after 
that each shutdown or reboot I tried went back to the old behavior of 
having the red screen.

I am back to having to use shutdown -hF 1 or longer wait to get it to 
smoothly shutdown or reboot.

Thanks again to those who have offered some insite so far, I will keep 
trying more things to see if I can track this down, or fingers crossed 
some miraculous update comes that automagically fixes me ;P