xscreensaver/nvidia crashes whole computer [SOLVED!]

synapscape · Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 7:32 pm Post subject:

Nothing new to add from my side, yet still...

I'm still using kernel 2.4 (2.4.26-lck1) and i have tried the hints to reproduce the kernel oops in the above mentioned bug report. My kernel-settings are: Local APIC disabled, ACPI enabled, preemptiness (preemptivity?! Who knows or cares about spelling? :wink:

) enabled, AGPgart as a module and NOT loaded, all DRM stuff disabled.

Results of the glxgears-test:
My system hard-locked 4 times in a row (including reboots) when running glxgears for about 4 minutes and then quitting it with <ESC>. ACPI doesn't seem to have an impact on this. Even enabling/disabling local APIC didn't help. I tried several combos of kernel setting EXCLUDING touching preempt. glxgears was the first app i started on my system after login (ok, after starting konsole :wink:

). Nothing came to rescue, the oops'es are still there...

Everyone, please try the glxgears test in the bug-report! It should make sure that we are all experiencing the same error.

Sadly, i didn't have the time to
a) switch to kernel 2.6 to see if this issue is still there
b) disable preempt on my 2.4 kernel to see if it helps
because my very lovely girlfriend returned from a 3-weeks workshop and i have ... "other things" ... to play with which are far more interesting than my linux box... :twisted:

Ahem, as it seems to be time to upgrade to kernel 2.6 OR to check my BIOS-settings for this "AGP-driving" thingie... I'll report back if my gf lets me find the time... :twisted:

Good Luck!
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synapscape · Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 7:52 pm Post subject:

Ok, i don't have any option for this AGP-driving thingie in my BIOS, so i am forced to try kernel 2.6. As i can throw out my very ancient ISA-ISDN-board i have no other "obstacles" in my way to finally try kernel 2.6! Yay!

@don quixada:
Why you're afraid of switching to kernel 2.6? There some useful guides in these forums, so why not giving a try? :wink:

bye,
markus
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evilwilly · Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 8:29 pm Post subject:

Bad news.

I've tried all suggestions, except for the BIOS option since it's not available to me, and my card is still bombing. Now what?

don quixada · l33t Joined: 15 May 2003 Posts: 810

ROJO · n00b Joined: 30 Sep 2004 Posts: 13

so, I upragde to the 6111 drivers, and now everything seems to work! I can log out of X without it crashing, and it doesn't appear that opengl screensavers are causing a problem. thanks for all the help and suggestions. one thing though, with the new drivers, a lot of my fonts are now pretty big, including gaim, xchat, firefox address bar, etc. Is there some way to lower the default font size for these things? some things, like aterm however, have maintained the same font size. any clues?

edit: I'm using xorg and icewm btw.

synapscape · Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 10:34 am Post subject:

don quixada · l33t Joined: 15 May 2003 Posts: 810

OK, after a painstaking kernel configurating session I finally got a 2.6 kernel working. Well... sort of working. I can boot up and even get on the internet, but Xorg freezes right away, i.e. the keyboard and mouse lockup. My computer does not lockup though because I can SSH into it etc. The only thing I haven't tried is upgrading the nvidia-kernel to the latest. I will try that now. Otherwise I have no idea what to do...

dq

ps: an 'Xorg -configure' doesn't work.

q

don quixada · l33t Joined: 15 May 2003 Posts: 810

The followup is that I upgraded to 6111 and there is still the lockup happening. Still working on it; I'll try something different...

dq

EDIT: OK, I *finally* got a working 2.6 kernel! yay! Now, I will test if opengl freezes with nvidia...

q

don quixada · l33t Joined: 15 May 2003 Posts: 810

Alright, like other people in this thread, I was able the get the opengl stuff in xscreensaver working by installing the 2.6 kernel and upgrading to the latest nvidia drivers (6111). I ran xscreensaver overnight and in the morning it was still going. I even played Quake III and there were no freezes during or after quitting. I think we have this problem licked!

So, the conclusion is:

-If you're using the 2.4 kernel then don't use any nvidia drivers greater than 4496.

-If you are using the 2.6 kernel use the latest 6111 nivdia drivers.

The recommended solution is to use the 2.6 kernel and latest nvidia drivers. How do you do this? Well, configuring the kernel is outside the scope of this thread, but when you do configure it make sure you have nvidia riva support turned off:

ssbilly5 · n00b Joined: 01 Sep 2002 Posts: 46 Location: USA

Well, I was having this problem too using 2.6.8, 4k Stacks, and Xorg on nvidia. I think the problem was I also was using the vesa-tng frame buffer driver, so now I've switched back to just plain old vesa. So far it seems to work.

Anyways if anyone else has any lingering problems they might check for this too.

John

chemical chris · Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 5:57 pm Post subject:

im having this problem on 2.6.10

xscreensaver restarts xorg

- isntalling the older drivers (obyously) dosent work

chemical chris · Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2005 3:25 pm Post subject:

erm... scratch that.... ANYTHING GL restarts Xorg...

solution:

emerge nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx with the -dlloader use flag set.