On 14 September 2016 at 22:12, VA <b...@indigo.re> wrote: > So since all this time I have this ugly vesa resolution, nothing has > worked so far, the recent kernel upgrade didn't solve the problem, and > there are no updates for the nvidia driver... > > However, there's something, I created a new partition and did a fresh > stable i386 install then upgrade to unstable, to ensure it was not my > old setup which had a specific problem, but it seems not. > So on that new install, I still get a black screen. dmesg shows a > desperate output: > > [ 100.314324] nvidia-modeset: Loading NVIDIA Kernel Mode Setting Driver > for UNIX platforms 361.45.18 Tue Jun 21 17:58:16 PDT 2016 > [ 100.315130] nvidia-modeset: Allocated GPU:0 > (GPU-5e911e77-bb03-4910-7d0a-8201558cf33b) @ PCI:0000:01:00.0 > [ 100.709686] nvidia-modeset: Freed GPU:0 > (GPU-5e911e77-bb03-4910-7d0a-8201558cf33b) @ PCI:0000:01:00.0 > [ 101.045590] gnome-shell[1019]: segfault at 24448b2c ip b6118b81 sp > bfded03c error 4 in libc-2.24.so[b60a3000+1b1000] > [ 101.449901] nvidia-modeset: Allocated GPU:0 > (GPU-5e911e77-bb03-4910-7d0a-8201558cf33b) @ PCI:0000:01:00.0 > [ 101.823843] nvidia-modeset: Freed GPU:0 > (GPU-5e911e77-bb03-4910-7d0a-8201558cf33b) @ PCI:0000:01:00.0 > [ 102.169960] gnome-shell[1074]: segfault at 24448b2c ip b60e2b81 sp > bfbd651c error 4 in libc-2.24.so[b606d000+1b1000] > [ 102.546999] nvidia-modeset: Allocated GPU:0 > (GPU-5e911e77-bb03-4910-7d0a-8201558cf33b) @ PCI:0000:01:00.0 > [ 102.936657] nvidia-modeset: Freed GPU:0 > (GPU-5e911e77-bb03-4910-7d0a-8201558cf33b) @ PCI:0000:01:00.0 > [ 103.259820] gnome-shell[1128]: segfault at 24448b2c ip b614bb81 sp > bfcb89dc error 4 in libc-2.24.so[b60d6000+1b1000] > > And it goes on until I reset the machine. > > I had a lead though, I tried another fresh stable install then upgrade > to unstable, but on amd64 this time, and this time, the nvidia driver > worked fine. > > So it seems to be an architecture problem to solve.
I do not believe this is an issue with the packaging. I would recommend taking this upstream, in the NVIDIA Linux forum or email support. Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
