[arch-general] Handling GeForce GTX 850M GPU on Arch Linux

[Florian Pelz]

On 05/16/2015 01:31 AM, caocoa at mail2tor.com wrote:
> → Sometimes, even the window manager (Gnome) freezes and I have to
> go to a tty to have a chance to get it unfreeze. It doesn't always work
> then sometimes I have to reboot my computer because it has become
> absolutely frozen (no mouse, no keyboard, even the keyboard CAPS light
> responds no more).

This happened to me before and I'm using an Intel GPU. It's rare though;
 I haven't seen it with the new GNOME 3.16. I hope you have a SysRq key
for proper rebooting [1].

> Finally, in Arch Linux I've become used to have X server started
> over tty1 and tty from 2 to 7 free. Actually, when startup reaches the end
> without faults, it start X server on tty1 then GDM (Gnome Display Manager)
> is shown on tty1 but once I log in to my account, my desktop is shown on
> tty2 and tty1 keeps displaying GDM.
> 
> I'm quite puzzled by this and I don't know whether the last symptom is a
> bug or a feature (maybe multiple user simultaneous outputs). I've also
> enclosed for your information my [Xorg.0.log] file and [lsmod] output. If
> it's a bug, which software should I fill a bug report to? nouveau driver,
> X, GDM, Gnome?
> 

I don't think this is a bug. It happens for me too and I like it because
I can log in with multiple users and easily and rapidly switch between them.

I don't know if the proprietary Nvidia driver is better than Nouveau for
GNOME usage. It has less features, even though rendering is faster. I
don't have problems with it, but I don't remember problems back then
when I used Nouveau either.

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Keyboard_shortcuts#Kernel

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