FS#13451 - Kernel update freezes system with nvidia card
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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
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
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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
Tuesday, 03 March 2009, 18:28 GMT
Reason for closing: Not a bug
Additional comments about closing: HAL configuration/setup issue
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.
Found this in xorg.log:
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(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
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Of course, both G15 and G9 work perfectly bofore lockup.