[SOLVED] No TTY's (Console) after login. {using nvidia>290}

[Thistled]

[Thistled]

Hey Princess, I might be barking up the wrong tree but is "reroute broken IRQ" enabled in your kernel?
I only say this because of the following lines in your code.

[Princess Nell]

Let's hope that bark is worse than the bite

Well spotted, I did not have this option set. I have now, and it makes no difference wrt the subject of this discussion (with 302.17). Going back to 290.10, so I won't have an opportunity to check whether any of those logs disappear (which I suspect).

[Princess Nell]

What can I say. Even the brief period running under 302.17 crashed the machine with a log very similar to what I posted. Again, that's for CONFIG_X86_REROUTE_FOR_BROKEN_BOOT_IRQS=y.

[philip]

I do have tty after login. But my problem is that the GUI just freezes and the sound gets stuck i a loop.

My /var/log/messages at the time of the event:

[Thistled]

Hello Philip

I noticed you have kernel:

[TomWij]

Same problem here, different set-up though:

[wcg]

My comments were merely for the benefit of anyone reading the thread
who has one of the affected chips and is wondering whether they can
get a working desktop or do they need a different gpu. (They can get
a working deskop if they can live without the features not supported
by the nouveau driver, in the context of these kernel and xorg-server
versions, and if they decline to enable frame buffer drivers not needed
with the nouveau driver, because it implements its own framebuffer driver.)

Other data (used by xorg):

[Princess Nell]

[Thistled]

[Kururu]

I think this bug is related to another bug that cause random crashes and freezes to some card model of the 8000/9000 series, GT200 series (like mine GT250) and some Quadro.
The nvidia developers are aware of this bug but they haven't release a valid fix until now.

My system is:

-intel Core i5, 4G RAM
-NVIDIA GT250 1G RAM

I tested all the drivers version from 290.10 to 302.17, with various kernels from 3.1 to 3.4.0, and xorg-server from 1.10 to 1.12.2: with every drivers version >290.10 I have no console and experience random crashes and freezes.

Now I'm testing the gentoo-kernel-3.4.0, xorg-server-1.12.2, and nvidia-drivers 302.17, and I tried a fix to the console problem that I found in another forum: i added the parameter "nomodeset" to the kernel line in grub like this:

[UncleVan]

Did someone post this to the nvidia guys ? A link here highly appreciated - Thanks in advance !

Your UncleVan.

[Gusar]

[UncleVan]

[UncleVan]

Console lost after 36 hrs.

[bulletmark]

[Thistled]

[UncleVan]

.. . - nouveau !

- Extremly fast mode switching
- superior frame buffer console
- true color videos in the VC - no X at all ! (needs DirectFB with video_cards_nvidia USE flag)
- 100% suspend/hibernate/resume
- minimal memory requirements
- 3D ??
etc.

Needs vdpau, g3dvl and gallium enabled in mesa a.o. for better performance.

And think twice next time you buying hardware .

Yor UncleVan.

[Princess Nell]

I'm using nouveau on my 64-bit system. But 32-bit is still my main productivity platform.

Finally some progress. The list of bug fixes for 302.17 and 304.37 is quite long, and while nothing immediately looked related, I unmasked and built 304.37, and it looks promising. Console switching seems to work again, and I was finally able to unmask xorg-server-1.12 and glibc-2.15.

[Thistled]

This looks like good news Princess Nell.
But just out of interest, which graphics card are you using?
I am using a GeForce8800 GT
I might just try the latest nvidia if things are on the up.
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Whatever you do, do it properly!

[bulletmark]

@Thistled, I have an 8600 GT and find nvidia v304.37 driver finally fixes the console ttys for me. It also, more importantly, fixes the xorg segmentation fault crash. Both these bugs have existed with my card since early nvidia v295.*. The funny thing is that after all this time now using the latest nouveau driver (which I had never used prior to these problems with nvidia) I find that I seem to get slightly better graphics performance on nouveau so I am staying with it.

[Princess Nell]

[Thistled]

I switched to Nouveau, as expected the consoles returned and I was very happy. Hey, the console switching was instant! I have never had that with Nvidia.
But, and it's a big but, (oo'er) I installed wine and tried to play a windows game "S.T.A.L.K.E.R." and the jittering rendered the game unplayable.
Incidentally, I am not really a PC gamer, more of a tweaker geek. lol.
So, I switched back to nvidia-drivers-2.90.* so I could get a console, and jitter free gaming.
I am just about to try the nvidia driver you mention, and see if I can "game" and use the consoles.
If that is the case, then it's a major hats off to nvidia devs, as it was mentioned on the nv-forums that it might take a year or so to fix this regression.
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[Thistled]

** UPDATE **
The new driver does indeed work!
Yes!
At last, the consoles and all the lovely fbterm decor is back.
I have put a big thank you to the nvidia devs on their forums.

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[rubik-wuerfel]

FYI, the behaviour mentioned here just happened to me with the Nvidia module 304.84, with this device: