Latest Nvidia driver 295.53 causing major issues

[Alfred]

Latest Nvidia driver 253.53
It's been a long time that i had real problems at all with PCLOS, but now the latest NVIDIA driver is giving me all kinds of freezes.
I am running a Dell XPS1530 with a Geforce 8600M GT.
I have tried disabling desktop effects etc.
During shutdown/reboot, the screen will go blank and just sit there, no other input (including all Function keys) have zero effect.
If the screen freezes, then the same, just a hard power down via Power button can get me out of it.
Running Kernel: 2.6.38.8-pclos3.bfs

Any ideas?
I can not see the older Nvidia driver in the package manager, so at this stage can't seem to re-install the old one.

[Just17]

Latest Nvidia driver 253.53

I guess you meant   295.53  ?

Have you tried - in Synaptic - Package Menu - Force Version ..........  is the 290.10 driver available as an alternate?

[Alfred]

Latest Nvidia driver 253.53

I guess you meant   295.53  ?

Have you tried - in Synaptic - Package Menu - Force Version ..........  is the 290.10 driver available as an alternate?

I looked into the package Manager and it doesn't show the previous version if I use "kernel" in the search function.
Yes...I meant 295.53 :-)

[AS]

It is there:

[Alfred]

Thanks :-)
We see how I go.....

[richiereyn]

I have exactly the same problem, will not power down or reboot, screen just goes blank. I have a Dell Inspiron 1720 with the same video card. Synaptic, though it lists the previous version won't let me force a downgrade, instead it says I have broken packages which when I check I actually don't have any broken packages. I am now running the Nouveau driver instead. It's not ideal, but at least it's not freezing anymore. Go to the control centre and configure the graphics card to not use the proprietary driver, and tick the box to prevent composite effects and that should select the Nouveau driver. It's the only solution I've found. I'm just hoping the next driver solves the issue.

[Just17]

I have exactly the same problem, will not power down or reboot, screen just goes blank. I have a Dell Inspiron 1720 with the same video card. Synaptic, though it lists the previous version won't let me force a downgrade, instead it says I have broken packages which when I check I actually don't have any broken packages. I am now running the Nouveau driver instead. It's not ideal, but at least it's not freezing anymore. Go to the control centre and configure the graphics card to not use the proprietary driver, and tick the box to prevent composite effects and that should select the Nouveau driver. It's the only solution I've found. I'm just hoping the next driver solves the issue.

Have you tried uninstalling the Nvidia driver that does not work, now that you are using the Nouveau driver?

[richiereyn]

Yes, actually I did a complete reinstall of the OS and fresh update from the current ISO and I get the same problem. I've also found another problem with USB devices disappearing whilst running on battery (Just started a new thread on that one). This last update has caused a few niggly problems with hardware that has for the past three years been perfect.

[richiereyn]

Just18..

Sorry I misread your reply.  No, I've left the current Nvidia driver installed so I know when it gets updated next time. The Nouveau driver works well enough as long as I turn off composite effects. Turning on composite effects causes occasional blank patches to appear on the screen. I tried running BZFlag using Nouveau driver and it works well. I would of course prefer the proper Nvidia driver, but this issue with the laptop freezing during shutdown / reboot is just annoying :/

[Just17]

I had in mind uninstalling the nvidia driver, rebooting, and then checking to see if you could install the older nvidia driver which worked previously.

I am not using those drivers at present, having installed the nvidia Beta driver from test. (302)

[richiereyn]

Ok, just tried that but still can't force an older version. I get this message:

E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
E: Unable to lock the download directory

But there are no broken packages.

[Just17]

Ok, just tried that but still can't force an older version. I get this message:

E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
E: Unable to lock the download directory

But there are no broken packages.

When you get that error, can you look through all the installed packages to see if any are marked as broken?

Have you ever updated any package from the testing section?

[Alfred]

It is there:

No go
The "force version" is greyed out, which doesn't surprise me since if I can't see the older version in the repository, how would it be able to use it?
At the moment I have Composite turned off, which seems to resolve the issue as a band aid.

[richiereyn]

No, this is a fresh install from the latest ISO, after updating to the new Nvidia driver this issue started. In Synaptic there are no broken packages, even though trying to force the previous version says there are.

[ObiWan]

It is there:

No go
The "force version" is greyed out, which doesn't surprise me since if I can't see the older version in the repository, how would it be able to use it?
At the moment I have Composite turned off, which seems to resolve the issue as a band aid.

In any case repo "ftp.heanet.ie" has the 290.10. But for the "Force Version" to work you should 1st choose the "x11-driver-video-nvidia-current", accept and then "Force version" to "dkms-nvidia-current". After the that apply changes.

If you do it opposite it won't accept it!.....