On 23 August 2014 17:52, Robert Moonen <n0b0dy@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
Best to solve one problem at a time, so video first, by the non-free drivers do you mean this one http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-amd64-319.49-driver that seems to be the latest one. I am presently running Debian Wheezy on an i7 3820 with 8GB on a gigabyte mobo with a GT 520 video card and it is running just fine with kernel 3.2 and also using the actual nvidia driver, the driver I linked to covers both cards so would be a good place to start.
As for the other problems you experience, this seems to be a contention/timeout problem, as no relatively new machine will ever take 30s to write a 2 kilobyte file.

Am using the drivers in Debian backports - I was using the drivers in stable, but upgraded, just in case. These work fine with the 3.12 kernel:

$ dpkg -l \*nvidia\* | grep -v none
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
||/ Name                                  Version                                      Architecture Description
+++-=====================================-============================================-============-==============================================================================
ii  glx-alternative-nvidia                0.4.1~bpo70+1                                amd64        allows the selection of NVIDIA as GLX provider
ii  libgl1-nvidia-glx:amd64               319.82-1~bpo70+2                             amd64        NVIDIA binary OpenGL libraries
ii  libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386                319.82-1~bpo70+2                             i386         NVIDIA binary OpenGL libraries
ii  libgl1-nvidia-glx-i386                319.82-1~bpo70+2                             i386         NVIDIA binary OpenGL 32-bit libraries
ii  libnvidia-ml1:amd64                   319.82-1~bpo70+2                             amd64        NVIDIA Management Library (NVML) runtime library
ii  nvidia-alternative                    319.82-1~bpo70+2                             amd64        allows the selection of NVIDIA as GLX provider
ii  nvidia-driver                         319.82-1~bpo70+2                             amd64        NVIDIA metapackage
ii  nvidia-glx                            319.82-1~bpo70+2                             amd64        transition to nvidia-driver
ii  nvidia-installer-cleanup              20131102+1~bpo70+1                           amd64        cleanup after driver installation with the nvidia-installer
ii  nvidia-kernel-3.12-0.bpo.1-amd64      319.82+1~bpo70+1+1~bpo70+1+3.12.6-2~bpo70+1  amd64        NVIDIA binary kernel module for Linux 3.12-0.bpo.1-amd64
ii  nvidia-kernel-3.13-0.bpo.1-amd64      319.82+1~bpo70+1+1~bpo70+1+3.13.10-1~bpo70+1 amd64        NVIDIA binary kernel module for Linux 3.13-0.bpo.1-amd64
ii  nvidia-kernel-3.14-0.bpo.1-amd64      319.82+1~bpo70+1+1~bpo70+2+3.14.4-1~bpo70+1  amd64        NVIDIA binary kernel module for Linux 3.14-0.bpo.1-amd64
ii  nvidia-kernel-3.2.0-4-amd64           304.117+1+1+3.2.54-2                         amd64        NVIDIA binary kernel module for Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64
ii  nvidia-kernel-common                  20131102+1~bpo70+1                           amd64        NVIDIA binary kernel module support files
ii  nvidia-settings                       319.72-1~bpo70+1                             amd64        tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
ii  nvidia-support                        20120630+3                                   amd64        NVIDIA binary graphics driver support files
ii  nvidia-vdpau-driver:amd64             319.82-1~bpo70+2                             amd64        NVIDIA vdpau driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-nvidia             319.82-1~bpo70+2                             amd64        NVIDIA binary Xorg driver

Am going to try and disable gdm at boot, then I will be able be able to prove if X-Windows is a factor or not.
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Brian May <brian@microcomaustralia.com.au>