FS#12825 - kernel 2.6.28 + nvidia 180.22 U/S

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by David Spicer (azleifel) - Saturday, 17 January 2009, 00:14 GMT
Last edited by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Wednesday, 11 February 2009, 19:50 GMT
Task Type Support Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:

After the update to kernel 2.6.28-3 and nvidia/nvidia-utils 180.22-1 X.org is no longer usable. It tries to start but it takes about 10 minutes for the mouse pointer to appear and then I loose patience. Xorg.0.log contains a number of lines like

(WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 6, 0x8000, 0x00001b24, 0x00001b4c)

and /var/log/errors.log has entries like

Jan 16 21:34:05 darkstar NVRM: Xid (0002:00): 6, PE0000
Jan 16 21:34:35 darkstar NVRM: Xid (0002:00): 3, C 00000002 SC 00000007 M 0000133c Data 00000000
Jan 16 21:34:36 darkstar NVRM: Xid (0002:00): 3, C 0000007e SC 00000007 M 0000133c Data 00000000
Jan 16 21:34:36 darkstar NVRM: Xid (0002:00): 3, C 0000007e SC 00000007 M 0000133c Data 00000000
Jan 16 21:34:36 darkstar NVRM: Xid (0002:00): 3, C 0000007e SC 00000007 M 0000133c Data 00000000
Jan 16 21:34:36 darkstar NVRM: Xid (0002:00): 3, C 0000007e SC 00000007 M 0000133c Data 00000000
Jan 16 21:34:36 darkstar NVRM: Xid (0002:00): 3, C 0000007e SC 00000007 M 0000133c Data 00000000
Jan 16 21:34:36 darkstar NVRM: Xid (0002:00): 3, C 0000007e SC 00000007 M 0000133c Data 00000000

I've tried a minimal xorg.conf with just a Device section to load the nvidia driver and also rebuilding nvidia/nvidia-utils with the latest NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-180.22-pkg2.run package (no other changes to the PKGBUILDs) but with no resolution.

Additional info:
* x86_64
* nvidia 8500 GT
   Xorg.0.log (20.8 KiB)
   xorg.conf (1.5 KiB)
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Closed by  Aaron Griffin (phrakture)
Wednesday, 11 February 2009, 19:50 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Additional comments about closing:  Fixed by newest version
Comment by Glenn Matthys (RedShift) - Saturday, 17 January 2009, 00:22 GMT
  • Field changed: Severity (Critical → Low)
Nvidia is binary blob, if it has defects there's nothing we can do. Have you tried with the nv driver from Xorg?
Comment by David Spicer (azleifel) - Saturday, 17 January 2009, 09:44 GMT
The nv driver works but I find that it does not cope very well with drawing on a 1680x1050 display. I also tried installing the driver directly from NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-180.22-pkg2.run and got the same result. What has worked nicely is reverting to the 177.82 driver using the Arch packages with the kernel 2.6.28 patch (built locally with a copy of the patch downloaded from the nvidia site because I cannot find it in the Arch package SVN).
   NVIDIA_kernel-177.82.diff.txt (5.9 KiB)
Comment by stefan lach (blixawillbargeld) - Saturday, 17 January 2009, 12:00 GMT
same here!
x86_64, nvidia 7600
Comment by Pierre Schmitz (Pierre) - Saturday, 17 January 2009, 14:23 GMT
You should report those bugs to nvidia. For me everyathing is working fine (x86_64, 7800GT)
Comment by David Spicer (azleifel) - Saturday, 17 January 2009, 16:02 GMT
The trouble with reporting a driver does not start bug to nvidia is that it is only possible to use the nvidia bug reporting tool when the driver is actually working but, whatever, one brave soul has managed to get over that hurdle and get nvidia's attention with what looks very much like the same problem (see http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=125904).
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Tuesday, 27 January 2009, 15:32 GMT
you can try 180.25: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=1914053
Comment by David Spicer (azleifel) - Tuesday, 27 January 2009, 19:56 GMT
Thanks for the pointer. Installed 180.25 and everything is working here - normal start and no warnings in Xorg.0.log.

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