Re: XF86 crashes when logging out, NVIDIA driver...

From: J.O. Aho (user_at_example.net)
Date: 10/21/03

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    Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 19:06:49 +0200

    Dances With Crows wrote:

    >>Login works fine, regadles of user. Applications and opengl works
    >>fine. When loging out from the session (regadles user), the screen
    >>blinks twice (as it should), but after that the screen becomes
    >>natrually black, the system has frocen totally, only thing to do is
    >>press the reset button on the computer case.

    >>Section "Device"
    >> Option "NvAGP" "1" # <i> 1=nvidia-agp
    >
    >
    > What happens when you shift this to 0, 2, or 3? I'd try 0 first.

    0,1,2,3 results all in the same behavour (remeber that 3 is just try out '2'
    first, if not working then use '1').

    >>BoardName "NV28 [GeForce4 Ti 4200 AGP 8x]"
    >>Nvidia driver: 1.0-4496-pkg2
    >
    >
    > Hm.
    >
    >
    >> Via KT133 (RedHat, uses AGP x 2)
    >
    >
    > Er... if the card is designed to run at 8x and the chipset's running at
    > 2x, things may get weird. Set the jumpers on the card to 4x or 2x, if
    > there are jumpers.

    Nah, cards adjust to the AGP speed and AGP speed is set in computer BIOS, no
    faults there (it's similare to plugin in an USB1.1 device into an USB2). If
    you ever read the NVIDIA manual/pdf/readme, you would have known that a KT133
    gets stable if it is set to use AGPx2 (at AGPx4 you will get random crashes).

    >
    >> nforce2 (Gentoo)
    >>Error logs: none in XFree86.0.log nor kdm.log
    >
    >
    > What about dmesg? The evil binary-only nVidia kernel module is
    > typically very verbose when it finds a problem. The X and kdm logging
    > systems may not be able to log problems when the kernel's locked up, but
    > syslog/metalog might be able to.

    dmesg says:
    0: nvidia: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 nvidia.o Kernel Module 1.0-4496 Wed Jul
    16 19:03:09 PDT 2003

    As the whole system is locked, there is no way to get any information about
    what may have went wrong. At first I had a XFS as filesystem, but all thise
    "craches" I have had, made many files corrupt as much of the files was
    tomporarly in RAM before saving it down to harddrive, which it couldn't do as
    the system crashed.

    > BTW, I had a similar problem once, and a later iteration of the evil
    > nVidia module fixed it. Gentoo is up to nvidia-kernel-1.0-4496-r3
    > now--try that out? HTH,

    Okey, just hate the Gentoo in this part, as it don't allow you to have kernel
    modules to be installed for two different kernels (install it for 2.4.23 and
    you loose it for 2.4.22).

      //Aho

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