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 Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2004 2:45 am Post subject: nVidia card, 2.6 kernel, several freezing problems [solved] |
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Ok, I've recently reinstalled my gentoo machine, this time using the latest 2.6 gentoo-dev-sources kernel. Everything seems to work fine most of the time, but there are several things that are causing my machine to simply freeze, and it won't let me do anything: ALT+CTRL+BKSP zapping doesn't work, ALT+CTRL+F1 vty switching doesn't work, I don't have SysRq setup in my kernel, ... I haven't tried setting up ssh to see if I can get to the machine remotely, but I have a feeling it wouldn't let me. Also, there is nothing informative in any log files that I've looked at so far.
These are the situations where it will freeze:
* SOMETIMES when exiting X to the console, the console will be garbled/unreadable though I may be able to reboot it blindly at that point.
* Whenever I switch terminals more than once while in X, it will freeze. ie: In X, pressing ALT+CTRL+F1 to look at the console, then ALT+F7 to return, it will freeze as soon as the framebuffer blanks.
* Whenever resolution is changed. I installed VALVe's Steam, and when starting a game, by default it tries to change into 800x600 resolution. That resolution change causes it to freeze.
* Sometimes my TV tuner card will cause it, though I think more specifically its the TV tuner program I'm using. TVTime works, Zapping works. MythTV freezes every time I go to "Watch TV".
There were other cases where it happened, but I can't remember them right now. With all of the above cases, the machine completely freezes, and I have no way of recovering from it, I have to do a manual power cycle.
Some details about my setup that might help:
I'm using an nVidia GeForce4 Ti4400 graphics card, and a Hauppauge WinCast/TV card (bt848)
| Code: | $ uname -a
Linux madcoder 2.6.7-gentoo #3 Fri Jun 25 20:50:19 MDT 2004 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.53GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
$ lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82850 850 (Tehama) Chipset Host Bridge (MCH) (rev 04)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82850 850 (Tehama) Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 04)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB/EB/ER Hub interface to PCI Bridge (rev 04)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 04)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801BA IDE U100 (rev 04)
0000:00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 04)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM SMBus (rev 04)
0000:00:1f.4 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #2) (rev 04)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV25 [GeForce4 Ti 4400] (rev a2)
0000:02:07.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt848 Video Capture (rev 11)
0000:02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Macronix, Inc. [MXIC] MX987x5 (rev 20)
0000:02:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] (rev 01)
0000:02:0a.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78)
$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
nvidia 2075144 12
snd_seq_midi 6688 0
snd_cs46xx 84488 2
snd_rawmidi 20260 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_cs46xx
snd_ac97_codec 64644 1 snd_cs46xx
snd_seq_oss 31104 0
snd_seq_midi_event 6272 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 48656 5 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 6792 4 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss 48552 0
snd_pcm 83592 2 snd_cs46xx,snd_pcm_oss
snd_page_alloc 9096 2 snd_cs46xx,snd_pcm
snd_timer 21252 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_mixer_oss 17792 2 snd_pcm_oss
snd 47332 14 snd_seq_midi,snd_cs46xx,snd_rawmidi, [... SNIP ...]
soundcore 7520 2 snd
tulip 42144 0
3c59x 33960 0 |
I'm using version 5336 of the nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx packages. X works great normally, and will be completely stable if I don't do anything to change the graphics card.
I don't have any idea where to start troubleshooting with this problem, but I really can't just deal with it  Does anyone have any suggestions for where I should start? If you think it has any bearing on the problem, my Gnome version is 2.6 also.
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| Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2004 3:58 am Post subject: |
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Did you enable 4k Stacks in your kernel?
If you did, disable it and recompile. 4k Stacks currently bork the nVidia drivers.
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madCoder|GN
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| Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2004 5:49 am Post subject: |
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| Code: | # grep "STACK" .config
CONFIG_4KSTACKS=y |
I'll recompile with that disabled and see if it fixes anything. Thanks for the tip. One question: by "bork" do you mean the nvidia driver simply doesn't work, or that it will cause weird behavior like this? Cause like I said, the driver works fine. X loads, everything works. The only thing that seems to cause these freezes are when changing the video mode, as simply as I can put it. If I exit X, and it doesn't freeze, then it definitely will freeze if I start X again before rebooting.
The Steam/CS problem was fixed by adding my resolution to the launch arguments so that the menu loaded in the same resolution as my desktop, so that no video mode changes were necessary.
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Great, that seems to have fixed the freezing problem  Thank you very much
Now I just need to figure out why mythtv is giving me problems
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