FS#16979 - [xf86-video-nv]: segfaulting when starting X

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Magnus Therning (magus) - Monday, 02 November 2009, 16:43 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Sunday, 08 November 2009, 20:51 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
After a recent upgrade my X segfaults. I tracked this down to being caused by xf86-video-nv (be uninstalling it, causing X to use xf86-video-vesa instead).


Additional info:
xf86-video-nv-2.1.15-1
x86_64


Steps to reproduce:
Just install xorg-server and the buggy package. Run X without any config files.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Sunday, 08 November 2009, 20:51 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  2.1.15-2.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Thursday, 05 November 2009, 19:29 GMT
Can you give more information? What hardware, logfiles, etc?
Comment by Magnus Therning (magus) - Friday, 06 November 2009, 07:37 GMT
Config file:

Either no config file at all, or a minimal one:
Section "Device"
Identifier "nvidia"
Driver "nv"
EndSection

Hardware:

Gotten from `lspci`: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G86 [Quadro NVS 290] (rev a1)

Log file: attached
   Xorg.0.log (17.8 KiB)
Comment by Laszlo Papp (djszapi) - Saturday, 07 November 2009, 05:19 GMT
Did you try with nvidia driver too, same ? Which kernel version ? There ar a lot of problem around the new X + vga drivers, weird.
Comment by Magnus Therning (magus) - Saturday, 07 November 2009, 07:29 GMT
@Laszlo, no I haven't tried with the nvidia driver. Only vesa (works) and nouveau (also works). Based on this I'm fairly sure it's the nv driver, and not some other X.org component.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Saturday, 07 November 2009, 09:08 GMT
Looks like your videochip needs this: http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewvc/rpms/xorg-x11-drv-nv/F-12/nv-2.1.15-g80-nop-gamma.patch?revision=1.1&view=markup
- G80: check
- crash on startup: check
Comment by NightWolf (NightWolf) - Sunday, 08 November 2009, 10:38 GMT
I got the same problem, but with the proprietary "nvidia" driver (nvidia-190.42-1).
* Kernel : 2.6.31-ARCH
* Graphic Card : nVidia GeForce GTX 260 (lspci -> 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT200 [GeForce GTX 260] (rev a1))

X segfaults after a while, but it seems to crash faster when using GTK apps...

Using the "vesa" driver makes X work fine.

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