Nvidia speed and lockup issues

[oshunluvr]

Note: This is a re-cap of a post that progressed but is posted in soapbox - I've re-posted here in case anyone has similar issues or has some more info for me.

Since installing Lucid, I've had occasional lockups.

The lockup issue has already lessened somewhat over the last couple of days updates and I've removed some problematic software (like network manager) today to see how that effects anything. These lockups are semi-solid. I can reboot using SysReg RSEIUB, but no TTY access.

The last lockup was last night. I had firefox running on a yahoo game page that uses java windows, I had dvd::rip transcoding a movie, and I had hulu playing a tv show. I paused hulu but left it open, quit my game but left the java screen open and left the computer for about 30-40 minutes. When I returned, it was locked. I'm going to test that same combination today.

Ok, so this time hulu running, dvd::rip transcoding, firefox open but not on yahoo/java page. Left for about 30 minutes. When I returned, screens were black but not in dpms mode, could still hear hulu running, no obvious hard drive activity. Keyboard locked like before. The only log entires I have discovered thus far:

May 10 15:26:40 office kernel: [ 8602.272556] NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 13, 0003 00000000 00008297 00001458 000c5c01 00000003
May 10 15:26:40 office kernel: [ 8602.294495] NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 13, 0001 00000000 0000502d 00000860 ff000000 00000100
May 10 15:26:53 office kernel: [ 8615.582590] NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 8, Channel 0000000

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So it seems to be a video driver/xorg/kernel and/or maybe dpms issue.

No lockup after 40 minutes with dpms turned off. Oddly, if I force dpms rather than waiting for automatic enabling it doesn't lock up.

Some deeper web searching reveals an nvidia issue that is fixable with a pci=nommconf added to boot parameters.

So far, that edit has increased video speed via gtkperf about 20% and no lockups for 18 hours.

[oshunluvr]

Re: Nvidia speed and lockup issues

40 or so hours and a lockup occurred. Here's the backtrace.

Any Nvidia experts out there?

(II) XKB: reuse xkmfile /var/lib/xkb/server-C3DB5C101950B960A9A80BE285B80056561E4E01.xkm
(II) XKB: reuse xkmfile /var/lib/xkb/server-C3DB5C101950B960A9A80BE285B80056561E4E01.xkm
(II) XKB: reuse xkmfile /var/lib/xkb/server-C3DB5C101950B960A9A80BE285B80056561E4E01.xkm
(WW) May 12 07:27:51 NVIDIA(0): WAIT (0, 7, 0x8000, 0x0000eb24, 0x0000eb24)
[mi] EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop.

Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x28) [0x4a3248]
1: /usr/bin/X (mieqEnqueue+0x1f4) [0x4a2ac4]
2: /usr/bin/X (xf86PostMotionEventP+0xc4) [0x47cea4]
3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so (0x7f191c5e0000+0x53cf) [0x7f191c5e53cf]
4: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x6fca7) [0x46fca7]
5: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x11d1f3) [0x51d1f3]
6: /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x7f19224ad000+0xf8f0) [0x7f19224bc8f0]
7: /usr/lib/xorg/extra-modules/nvidia_drv.so (0x7f191d087000+0x77f1d) [0x7f191d0fef1d]
8: /usr/lib/xorg/extra-modules/nvidia_drv.so (0x7f191d087000+0x7975d) [0x7f191d10075d]
9: /usr/lib/xorg/extra-modules/nvidia_drv.so (0x7f191d087000+0xd4a95) [0x7f191d15ba95]
10: /usr/lib/xorg/extra-modules/nvidia_drv.so (_nv001065X+0x195) [0x7f191d128515]
11: /usr/lib/xorg/extra-modules/nvidia_drv.so (0x7f191d087000+0xc23d0) [0x7f191d1493d0]
12: /usr/lib/xorg/extra-modules/nvidia_drv.so (_nv002079X+0x3b) [0x7f191d13df5b]
13: /usr/lib/xorg/extra-modules/nvidia_drv.so (0x7f191d087000+0xb0274) [0x7f191d137274]
14: /usr/lib/xorg/extra-modules/nvidia_drv.so (_nv002723X+0x9d) [0x7f191d1379ad]
15: /usr/lib/xorg/extra-modules/nvidia_drv.so (0x7f191d087000+0x7972b) [0x7f191d10072b]
16: /usr/lib/xorg/extra-modules/nvidia_drv.so (0x7f191d087000+0xd4c59) [0x7f191d15bc59]
17: /usr/lib/xorg/extra-modules/nvidia_drv.so (0x7f191d087000+0x340543) [0x7f191d3c7543]
18: /usr/lib/xorg/extra-modules/nvidia_drv.so (0x7f191d087000+0x33ec3a) [0x7f191d3c5c3a]
19: /usr/lib/xorg/extra-modules/nvidia_drv.so (0x7f191d087000+0x34074c) [0x7f191d3c774c]
20: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libxaa.so (0x7f191c7eb000+0x51f6d) [0x7f191c83cf6d]
21: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0xda63c) [0x4da63c]
22: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x2e8e9) [0x42e8e9]
23: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x30c3c) [0x430c3c]
24: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x261aa) [0x4261aa]
25: /lib/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x7f19211a5c4d]
26: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x25d59) [0x425d59]

[oshunluvr]

Re: Nvidia speed and lockup issues

latest minor driver update seems to have fixed this (fingers crossed) 40 hours no lockups