Nvidia Geforce 8800 Gtx Driver
Heberto Calderon
How are video drivers handled when using Wayland? I installed GNOME on my system using Wayland. As I was trouble shooting a resolution setup problem, I saw a forum post instructing that attempts to trouble shoot anything related to Xorg were futile as only Wayland mattered in such a system, and what I've found in the Archwiki also states that Wayland is a replacement for Xorg. However, xorg-server was apparently installed as a dependency for other software as it is installed on my system.
The GUI seemed to be working fine after install, but soon started regularly freezing for minutes. journalctl revealed many "nouveau" related errors and a little more research showed it is likely a driver issue. The 8800 GT wants the 340.xx driver. After attempting to install it from AUR, I realized the circular dependency it described is because the legacy driver wasn't compatible with newer versions of Xorg. I didn't expect this to be an issue because I am running Wayland. Even though the makepkg attempts for the driver and other packages all failed with errors resolving dependencies, something was altered and the system now boots to a blank screen with cursor.
Wayland doesn't work reliably with modern nvidia drivers, let alone nvidia 340xx. However xorg is still on 1.20.x based versions and should still be compatible with it, so I'd say you have more chance with a xorg based 340xx setup.
Distro is Arch Linux. I am stuck at 319.32. This is the last version of the nvidia dirver package which would not crash my system. I have tried later packages but all of them would produce a system freeze. Now with the appearance of xorg-server 1.15 this rather outdated package is no longer compatible. Not to mention that it is not compatible with the newer versions of the kernel.
I tried the latest driver 331.38 together with kernel 3.12.8. Same result. The system froze within seconds of starting X with a single XBMC running. I just managed to run remotely nvidia-bug-report.sh before this happened. The log is attached to the top post.
I am installing Ubuntu 14.04 on two machines with Geforce 8300 chipsets (Asus MSN-H/HDMI motherboards). Both are giving NAK bailout errors at the terminal and then eventually crash. This happens after a while when using the open-source Nvidia driver,...
While the workaround of using options nvidia_340 NVreg_EnableMSI=0 still works well, I re-checked with last version 340.96 of the driver, especially because the change log says:
[url] -x86_64/340.96/README/knownissues.html[/url]
Could you please answer:
Is 8800 Ultra supported by CUDA 0.8 and driver 97.73?
Is 8800 Ultra supported by the upcoming release of CUDA?
Should I wait for the next CUDA release before ordering the System?