NVIDIA Corporation GF106 [GeForce GTS 450] can not log in in Gnome

Hey,

I am afraid that Noveau currently does not play nicely with newer cards. I have had issues with my GeForce 450 as well as with a GeForce 610. You either get no 3D acceleration at all and Mesas LVM Pipe or Nouveau is instable as hell.

So far either the NVidia 8X00 family or the 9X00 familiy seem to be good candidates for a Trisquel box with reasonable 3D performance. If you can live wiht exchanging your GPU I would go for a used GeForce 9800GT. You often get those for super low prices at e-bay. Often even with silent cooling solutions already installed.

I mean something like this:
http://www.ebay.de/itm/Grafikkarte-Geforce-9800-GT-1024-Mb-DDR3-KFA2-SLI-PCI-Express-2-0-SLI-Brucke-/221292927696?pt=DE_Elektronik_Computer_Computer_Graphikkarten&hash=item...

BTW: What you have be listing is the audio part of your GPU (for HDMI audio).
You need to do a lspci | grep VGA to post your GPU specs.

Regards,
Holger

Hi Uros09!

Thank you for your donation. The lspci output you provided is for the audio controller, not GPU. You should provide a full output of the lspci command (don't forget to use formatting when pasting data into your post), to know whether you have an integrated graphic chip too.

The second information you should give to us, is whether your computer is a laptop, or desktop (usually giving the brand/model number is enough). This is for the hardware specification.

The third thing I would like to know is, if your computer contains an Intel, or AMD processor; and if using the NVidia graphic card/chip is neccesarily your preferred choice in case, you also have an Intel processor with an integrated GPU.

Thanks in advance.

Thanks for reply
Here is lspci -v for graphic card
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF106 [GeForce GTS 450] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at f6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Memory at ec000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
I/O ports at ef00 [size=128]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at e8000000 [disabled] [size=512K]
Capabilities:
Kernel driver in use: nouveau
Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidiafb

Graphic card is not integrated on motherboard it is separate card for pci express slot.

My computer is workstation with Genuine Intel processor:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2400 CPU @ 3.10GH

+1 goes to Magic Banana and leny2010

The ultimate way is to get rid of the NVidia card, because it's way too new, and it will take years to get proper support with nouveau (the reverse-engeneered NVidia graphic driver), and stay with Intel processors, since they all have an integrated GPU called "HD Graphics", and since Intel do support GNU/Linux, they provide a fully-free Mesa stack with their graphic driver.

I would also try what Darksoul71 said already; it seems to be a great way to go if you in a need for a graphic card. The NVidia 8/9 series are the second best choice right after using Intel HD Graphics, since they're best supported on nouveau. There are many of them out there, just search for the 8XXX/9XXX cards on eBay, they are extremely cheap. An example of one of the best supported card is the nVidia GeForce 9500 GT, but there are a lot more (look at the older Phoronix articles at the bottom of my post). A recent comparison, incl. NVIDIA GeForce 9500GT, and Intel HD Graphics 4600 performance can be found here.

The next time you upgrade your processor, do avoid buying models with Intel vPro/TXT technologies (your processor has both of them built-in). The vPro is a hidden 3G part integrated on the processor die, that allows remote access to your computer by somebody else you does not even seen before, to remotely turn on, and take control of your computer. There is no workaround for this except avoiding the purchase of such a computer/processor. Information about Intel TXT can be found in this Wikipedia article.

One more thing that I can add from my personal experience on my laptop computer, that has a dedicated NVidia GPU, is that you can use the acpi_osi= Linux-kernel parameter to use only one GPU at a time (Intel by default). Just edit /etc/default/grub file using

sudo gedit /etc/default/grub

and add this parameter to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT variable, so it will look like

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi_osi="

then run

sudo update-grub

Now you need to restart your computer twice(!), to get things working (once before the BIOS get it initialized). More precisely, restart the computer, and when the login screen appears, restart again. Then you can try to log into the default GNOME environment to see what happens. You can also use

lspci|grep VGA

to see if your graphic card is still active, or not (there should be no output).

If this will not work for you, you can revert this by repeating the process, except that you need to remove the acpi_osi= parameter. This is a workaround that can be used if your BIOS does not allow you to disable the onboard graphics (NVidia), and you does not want to manually remove the card, or you just want to be able to switch between GPUs (like me), but that needs some more scripting to do (basically linking to the right driver with update-alternatives).

References:

 ० 15-Way Open vs. Closed Source NVIDIA/AMD Linux GPU Comparison
 ० 8-Way NVIDIA Nouveau GPU Comparison
 ० Nouveau For A $10 NVIDIA Graphics Card?

As for my benchmarks I digged out my old thread:
https://trisquel.info/es/forum/trisquel-55-gaming-benchmarks-and-some-conclusions

In regard to the comment fo Chris: An I3 might run 1080p video but still costs 130€ (where I live). For this one gets a dual-core with 2.9 to 3.6 GHz. But one also gets an AMD 6 Core with 6x3.9GHz or an AMD 8 Core with 8x3.1GHz for the same price. Now do your math :)

But of course Chris is right and a 6- or 8-CPU (similar to an NVidia GPU) is way overpowered for daily use. If with watch out in the reasonable dual-core region, prices go down to 40€ here :)

May be I am simply the Non-Intel guy with a small wallet.....

Thanks for your comments and suggestions. Finally I discovered that my motherboard has integrated HDMI port. I changed my monitor to one which has hdmi support and now everything works fine. (It was time for change of monitor anyway).

Now I can log in to gnome, glxgears shows result of 60,000 FPS which is
like Ubuntu showed with nVidia graphic card with proprietary nVidia driver.

I removed that Nvidia graphic card (NVIDIA Corporation GF106 [GeForce GTS 450]) and plan to sell it.

About processor I didn't have idea that it can allow someone from outside to turn on/off computer. I knew about Microsoft 'Secure Boot' which could prevent users from installing any other OS, but this TXT I didn't know. Next time I will pay attention on this problem too.

About CPU can you point me to some intel i5 processor similar to mine Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2400 CPU @ 3.10GH but without that vPro/TXT ?

I've been on intel web site and find out two which I think don't have that.

http://ark.intel.com/products/75036/Intel-Core-i5-4430-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_20-GHz
Socket: FCLGA1150, FCLGA1150, FCLGA1150
Graphic: Intel® HD Graphics 4600
no vPro I am not sure about TXT.

http://ark.intel.com/products/65509/Intel-Core-i5-3330-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_20-GHz
Socket: FCLGA1155, FCLGA1155
Graphic: Intel® HD Graphics 2500
no TXT/vPro

Please check those few links and tell me if one of these CPUs have some hidden
spy-on-me feature like my present CPU ?

My present CPU has HD Graphics 2000 I wonder what's the difference between that and 2500 or 4600 under Trisquel and is 4600 supported ?