FS#13451 - Kernel update freezes system with nvidia card

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Dusan Popovic (dusanx) - Wednesday, 25 February 2009, 06:07 GMT
Last edited by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Tuesday, 03 March 2009, 18:28 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture x86_64
Severity Critical
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:

After latest kernel update, nvidia hard freezes system pretty often -- screen flashes rapidly and x does not react to any key including ctrl-alt-backspace, alt-f2, alt-f3, ctrl-alt-f2... I need to hard reset system to get it working.

After such freeze when I boot system nvidia font in text mode is corrupted. After second boot everything goes back to normal.

After reset there is nothing relevant in dmesg.

Starting fallback configuration turns everything back to normal. No freezes whatsoever.

Additional info:

uname -a:
Linux archpc 2.6.28-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Feb 22 11:00:30 CET 2009 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 4400 @ 2.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

Nvidia driver:
extra/nvidia 180.22-1

Nvidia card: GeForce 8500 GT

Steps to reproduce:

1:

Start urban terror, select any game, start it -- freezes instantly

2:

Xmoto: freezes after ~5 minutes of normal playing

3:

VirtualBox: Freezes randomly, every ~30 minutes
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Closed by  Aaron Griffin (phrakture)
Tuesday, 03 March 2009, 18:28 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  HAL configuration/setup issue
Comment by Sergio (SergioPR) - Saturday, 28 February 2009, 11:37 GMT
I'm not suffering that problem, but you can try the last stable version, 180.35. You can download it from nvidia.com but I think this package should be updated, since it was flagged as out-of-date a few months ago and two versions have appeared since then (180.29 and now 180.35).
Comment by Dusan Popovic (dusanx) - Saturday, 28 February 2009, 12:06 GMT
Thanks, I'll probably try that too.

Still happens completely random. I even downgraded to 173.xx and I got same results.

There are two types of events:

1. Screen starts flashing and if I wait 5-10 seconds everything continues normally.
2. Screen flashes for several seconds and I get blank text screen with flashing cursor prompt. Only hard reset helps with this one.

In both cases, while screen flashes there is absolute system lock: mouse and keyboard are not active, even music stops playing.
In case #1 music continues where it stopped (mplayer console radio streaming) and keyboard starts functioning.
Comment by Dusan Popovic (dusanx) - Saturday, 28 February 2009, 15:45 GMT
Is it possible that I have HAL problem?

Found this in xorg.log:
----
(II) config/hal: Adding input device G15 Extra Keys
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed
(II) config/hal: Adding input device G15 Gaming Keyboard
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed
(II) config/hal: Adding input device G15 Gaming Keyboard
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed
(II) config/hal: Adding input device Logitech G9 Laser Mouse
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed
(II) config/hal: Adding input device Logitech G9 Laser Mouse
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed
(II) config/hal: Adding input device Macintosh mouse button emulation
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed
----

Of course, both G15 and G9 work perfectly bofore lockup.
Comment by Dusan Popovic (dusanx) - Sunday, 01 March 2009, 18:43 GMT
Entirely HAL problem with my setup. Sorry to waste everyones time. Solved.

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