kernel 2.6.15 breaks nvidia-kernel 1.0.6629-r5 [SOLVED]

digir · n00b Joined: 25 Jun 2005 Posts: 3

[SOLVED] upgrading to latest unstable version fixed the problem

After upgrading my kernel from 2.6.14 to 2.6.15 (vanilla), nvidia-kernel (1.0.6629-r5) doesn't work anymore. It compile and loads ok, but can't set some MTRR anymore. There were no probs with 2.6.14-series.

This is what startx gave me (it leaves blank screen and can't recover console, so i piped that message to file)

X Window System Version 6.8.2
Release Date: 9 February 2005
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.8.2
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.14-ck6 i686 [ELF]
Current Operating System: Linux cloudkiss 2.6.15 #1 PREEMPT Sun Jan 8 09:18:28 EET 2006 i686
Build Date: 09 January 2006
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Thu Jan 12 09:31:55 2006
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
Using vt 7
NVIDIA: failed to set MTRR 0xd0000000, 256M (write-combining)
XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

Looks like something in kernel has changed. Hoping to solve this so i can get my 3d apps working again with new kernel.

CPU: Athlon XP 2200+
MEM: 768M
GFX: GeForce 6600GT 128M

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Portage 2.0.53 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.14-ck6 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.14-ck6 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20
virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=athlon-xp -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /etc/make.profile /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=athlon-xp -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ http://ftp.linux.ee/pub/gentoo/distfiles/ http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ http://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/"
LANG="en_US.ISO-8859-1"
LC_ALL="en_US"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow X aalib acpi alsa apm arts audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo bzip2 bzlib caps cdr crypt cups curl curlwrappers dga dio directfb divx4linux doc dvd dvdr emboss encode esd exif expat fam fbcon ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran ftp gd gdbm gif glut gmp gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile icq idn imagemagick imlib ipv6 jabber jack jpeg kde lcms ldap libcaca libg++ libwww mad matroska mbox memlimit mhash mikmod mime mmap mmx mng motif mp3 mpeg msn ncurses nls nptl ogg oggvorbis openal opengl pam pcre pdflib perl pic png python qt quicktime readline sdl sharedmem slang sockets spell sqlite sse ssl svga sysvipc tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb vorbis xine xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib video_cards_nvidia userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

SinoTech · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 11:24 am Post subject:

Have you tried a newer version of the nvidia stuff? The newest version ("1.0.8178") is currently marked as ~x86 but think it should save to install it anyway.
regards,

Sino

atdsm · Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 3:36 am Post subject:

I just upgraded to the 2.6.14-r5 gentoo kernel, and I have the same problem - the screen blanks out when running startx. It also blanks randomly when trying to use the framebuffer from the command line (mplayer for example). The problem seems to be in the 2.6.14 gentoo kernels at least, even if not in the vanilla 2.6.14 kernel.

For me, upgrading to the unstable version of nvidia-kernel did not solve the problem. In order to verify that I actually am dealing with the same thing, could you tell me how you piped the output of startx to a text file? I thought that this should work:

s0be · Apprentice Joined: 23 Nov 2002 Posts: 240

it's all logged into /var/log/Xorg.0.log

atdsm · Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 7:32 am Post subject:

Thanks. I did manage to pick this up later... it's not the same issue after all.

I ended up opening a new post:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-427686-highlight-.html
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