On Tue, 2013-09-17 at 09:42 +0100, Marco Donnarumma wrote: > This time apparently it worked for my low-latency kernel, but not for > the rt kernel (a 3.2.6 custom one I compiled). What's curious is that > when logging in the rt-kernel: > > > - cinnamon crashes and goes in fall back mode without a way of > recovering it What does ~/.xsession-errors say? > - the nvidia module seems not to be loaded. I guess it's not because I > don't see the flash screen NVidia at booting Don't guess, take a look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log. When doing this, first grep EE, IOW run grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log > - so I launch the nvidia settings, and I'm welcomed with a message > saying I'm not using the driver Seems to be the answer ;). > - so I launch the hardware driver utility, and I'm welcomed with > another message saying the driver is installed Perhaps not the module for the kernel you use. > Shall I have run the installer when running the rt-kernel? and if so, > why is that, are modules kernel-dependent? Modules have to fit to the kernel. You should run the NVIDIA *run thingy manually. I've got no time to search for you an English howto, sorry, on the quick I only found a German howto: http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Grafikkarten/Nvidia/Manuelle_Treiberinstallation You perhaps need to stop by another way, than using /etc/init.d/..., this depends to the distro you're using. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user