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FS#16366 - [nvidia-96xx] crash with 1.6.x xorg

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Cyrill (rphx) - Sunday, 27 September 2009, 05:11 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Sunday, 01 November 2009, 21:25 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
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 update to 1.6.x xorg experienced crash with nvidia drivers (Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11. Server aborting).

The solution is simple: due to nvidia`s official driver manual most people should use xxx.pkg1.run.
In PKGBUILD i found xxx.pkg0.run. Changing to pkg1 and rebuilding packages solved the problem.
Additional info:
* package version(s)
extra/nvidia-96xx
extra/nvidia-96xx-utils
version 96.43.13-1
This task depends upon

Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Sunday, 01 November 2009, 21:25 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Additional comments about closing:  nvidia-96xx doesn't work at all with xorg-server 1.7.
Comment by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Sunday, 27 September 2009, 16:19 GMT
  • Field changed: Summary (Nvidia-96xx crash with 1.6.x xorg → [nvidia-96xx] crash with 1.6.x xorg)
  • Field changed: Status (Unconfirmed → Assigned)
  • Task assigned to Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
I think that the only difference between pkg0 and pkg1 is that pkg1 have precompiled modules for some distros like Fedora, Ubuntu, etc...

Anyway you can confirm that works?
Comment by Cyrill (rphx) - Monday, 28 September 2009, 04:02 GMT
Yes it works for my machine. Not sure for others.
Comment by Ben (eldalion) - Monday, 19 October 2009, 01:52 GMT
I tried replacing pkg0 by pkg1 in the PKGBUILDs. nvidia-96xx-utils built just fine, but I couldn't get nvidia-96xx to work, please see attached file for output. I also tried upgrading to xorg 1.7 but no luck with that either. Ideas, anyone?
   output.txt (1.1 KiB)
Comment by Cyrill (rphx) - Monday, 19 October 2009, 15:21 GMT
i think the reason is in these lines from your output.
...
The kernel you are installing for is a Xen kernel!

The NVIDIA driver does not currently work on Xen kernels.
...
This is not a Nvidia-96xx bug since you are making a custom package for custom kernel.
Look at this thread http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=122900
Or try disabling this:
Processor type and features --->
[ ] Paravirtualized guest support --->

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