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mulander
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Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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 Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 10:42 am Post subject: nvidia riva tnt2 xorg lockups |
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Hi all.
I am having a hard time with my nvidia card.
My X keeps locking up, no mouse and keyboard interaction.
ctrl + alt + backspace also doesn't work.
Crashes are random, it can run for 45 days then crash, or it can crash several times during 30 minutes.
It even crashed during the night while I was logged in on the desktop, so no interaction is required to crash it.
installed versions
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xorg-x11-7.0-r1
nvidia-legacy-drivers-1.0.7184
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my xorg configuration for my card
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Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
VideoRam 32768
Option "NoLogo" "true"
Option "NvAGP" "1"
BoardName "NV5 [RIVA TNT2/TNT2 Pro]"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
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dmesg info on nvidia
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BIOS-e820: 000000000fff0000 - 000000000fff3000 (ACPI NVS)
vesafb: NVidia, Riva TNT, B1 (OEM: NVidia)
nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel Module 1.0-7184 Tue Aug 1 18:38:58 PDT 2006
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nvidia device files
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inferno ~ # ls -l /dev/nvidia*
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195, 0 2007-01-20 11:07 /dev/nvidia0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195, 255 2007-01-20 11:07 /dev/nvidiactl
inferno ~ #
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lsmod output
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inferno mulander # lsmod
Module Size Used by
snd_seq_midi 6048 0
snd_emu10k1_synth 5920 0
snd_emux_synth 31936 1 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_seq_virmidi 5216 1 snd_emux_synth
snd_seq_midi_emul 5792 1 snd_emux_synth
snd_pcm_oss 18976 0
snd_mixer_oss 14784 2 snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_oss 28864 0
snd_seq_midi_event 5984 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 45520 8 snd_seq_midi,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_emul,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
nvidia 3919372 12
snd_emu10k1 111108 3 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_rawmidi 19264 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1
snd_ac97_codec 86496 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_ac97_bus 1792 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm 67624 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec
snd_seq_device 6316 7 snd_seq_midi,snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi
snd_timer 19044 3 snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 7336 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_util_mem 3264 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
snd_hwdep 6628 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
snd 43268 15 snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_seq_device,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
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Xorg.0.log's after lockups:
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log nr 1:
(WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (0, 7, 0x8000, 0x00009108, 0x00009108, 1)
(WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 7, 0x8000, 0x00009108, 0x0000912c, 1)
(WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (1, 7, 0x8000, 0x00009108, 0x0000912c, 1)
(WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 7, 0x8000, 0x00009108, 0x00009150, 1)
log nr 2:
(WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (0, 7, 0x8000, 0x0000a7ac, 0x0000a7ac, 1)
log nr 3:
(WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (0, 7, 0x8000, 0x0000f40c, 0x0000f40c, 1)
(WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 7, 0x8000, 0x0000f40c, 0x0000f430, 1)
log nr 4:
(WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (0, 7, 0x8000, 0x0000c054, 0x0000c054, 1)
(WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 7, 0x8000, 0x0000c054, 0x0000c078, 1)
(WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (1, 7, 0x8000, 0x0000c054, 0x0000c078, 1)
(WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 7, 0x8000, 0x0000c054, 0x0000c09c, 1)
(WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (1, 7, 0x8000, 0x0000c054, 0x0000c09c, 1)
log nr 5:
(WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (0, 7, 0x8000, 0x00003f90, 0x00003f90, 1)
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I've uploaded my xorg startup log because it's to much to paste here in my opinion.
You can find it here
The current specifications (xorg.conf etc.) are a result of things that I tried.
So here is a list of what and why I did:
- At first there was no Option "NvAGP" "1" in xorg.conf. I tried using NvAGP 2 and 3,4 no results
I noticed that AGP was loading with the kernel, so I recompiled it without AGP support,
recompiled the nvidia drivers and added NvAGP 1. Still no result, I also tried other NvAGP settings.
- I tried running with RenderAccel true, but it crashed even more often.
- I tried disabling several software/daemons that in my opinion could cause the crash (gkrellm, firefox, dbus, avahi, hal) but no positive results)
- I logged the output of dbus-monitor and analyzed it after a system crash, there was nothing of interest there
- Other things that I've probably forgotten by now.
I hope that someone will be able to help me. I am fighting with this one for several months now, with no results, and I'm getting really depressed by it. If some more info/logs are required then those that are gathered here, please post a message and I will provide them as quick as possible.
I am also using a frame buffer running on vesafb. I saw in one of these forum topics that nvidia driers do not collide with it. |
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moocha
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Joined: 21 Oct 2003
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Location: Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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The first thing I'd try is getting rid of any and all frame buffer support in the kernel. Even if it's been reported to be compatible  .
However, it's unlikely that should be the problem. I suspect (or rather know, from my adventures with a old Geforce4MX440 card) recent NVidia drivers aren't really supporting older cards anymore, or if they do it's more by accident. Recent NVidia drivers being any driver post-1.0.6111 - that was the last one that actually worked properly on old cards. The problem is that 1.0.6111 and older do not work or compile against kernels newer than 2.6.11 and linux-headers newer than 2.6.11, and compile on kernel and linux-headers between 2.6.9 and 2.6.11 only using heavy patches, the most important one being using all AGP-related headers from 2.6.8. I'm not even going to touch then "new X.org" issue, that's out of the question anyway.
In short, if you use old hardware you're pretty much stuck using old kernel and X.org versions too.
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whig
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Joined: 27 Nov 2004
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Location: New Zealand
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| The nvidia driver seems to stress ram (my personal experience) so check yours with memtest. You may wish to try the 2D nv driver and leave X run overnight (like you have done before). Both are longshots. |
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