Hi all,
I’ve read up and posted on several threads about some problems being caused, it would appear, by nvidia drivers. Specifically, I am experiencing a ktorrent crash while running the most recent nvidia 260.19 driver. See threads here and here.
A solution to this crash problem has been to downgrade the nvidia driver from 260.19 to 256.53. However, as you can read in the above posts, doing so renders XBMC unable to even start and also makes watching 1080p content in VLC impossible (as it causes heavy lag and frame drops).
Running 260.19, ktorrent crashes whenever one tries to do anything of note. Specifically, I’ve experienced it when:
Loading a torrent
Adding a filter to Syndication plugin
Accessing WebUI from another PC
The crash is a Floating point exception.
This issue, as noted above, is solved by downgrading nvidia drivers to 256.53, but then XBMC will not open and throws this error:
“XBMC needs hardware accelerated OpenGL rendering. Install an appropriate graphics driver”
and VLC cannot play 1080p videos without significant frame dropping/lag.
Has anyone experienced a similar problem and can point me to a solution that enables me to both run ktorrent and enjoy my HTPC experience using XBMC/watching 1080p videos at all?
System info:
AMD Athlon™ X2 240 Processor
800.00 MHz
Cores: 2
2gb Ram
nVidia GeForce GT240
openSUSE 11.3 running KDE 4.4.4
uname -a
Linux linux-nqzt 2.6.34.7-0.5-default #1 SMP 2010-10-25 08:40:12 +0200 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
bennyshaik Hi all,
I’ve read up and posted on several threads about some problems being caused, it would appear, by nvidia drivers. Specifically, I am experiencing a ktorrent crash while running the most recent nvidia 260.19 driver. See threads here and here.
A solution to this crash problem has been to downgrade the nvidia driver from 260.19 to 256.53. However, as you can read in the above posts, doing so renders XBMC unable to even start and also makes watching 1080p content in VLC impossible (as it causes heavy lag and frame drops).
Running 260.19, ktorrent crashes whenever one tries to do anything of note. Specifically, I’ve experienced it when:
Loading a torrent
Adding a filter to Syndication plugin
Accessing WebUI from another PC
The crash is a Floating point exception.
This issue, as noted above, is solved by downgrading nvidia drivers to 256.53, but then XBMC will not open and throws this error:
“XBMC needs hardware accelerated OpenGL rendering. Install an appropriate graphics driver”
and VLC cannot play 1080p videos without significant frame dropping/lag.
Has anyone experienced a similar problem and can point me to a solution that enables me to both run ktorrent and enjoy my HTPC experience using XBMC/watching 1080p videos at all?
System info:
AMD Athlon™ X2 240 Processor
800.00 MHz
Cores: 2
2gb Ram
nVidia GeForce GT240
openSUSE 11.3 running KDE 4.4.4
uname -a
Linux linux-nqzt 2.6.34.7-0.5-default #1 SMP 2010-10-25 08:40:12 +0200 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
bennyshaik, have you consider doing a kernel update to 2.6.36 or 2.6.37? Have you considered moving up to 64 bit? While I am not sure just what the issue might be, I have not had these issues since upgrading my kernel and consider you can still use your old kernels if you want to. You must upgrade the nVidia driver to use the newer kernels however. Here is my uname -a command:
Linux linux-ew60 2.6.37-rc5-0.5-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Dec 7 18:04:10 CST 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I am also using an nVidia video card. So, if you want to give it a try, here in message #17 is the most recent version of S.A.K.C., 2.10:
S.A.K.C. - SUSE Automated Kernel Compiler - Version 2.00
Thank You,
It has been solved. See: NVIDIA 260.19 Issues