Nvidia lockups

[DancesWithWords]

For the last while I've been experiencing complete lock-ups of by computer.

I've running
Tyan Tiger Mobo
Dual AMD 246 Opterons
1Gb Ram
Sparkle Nvidia 7600, 512MB
Nvidia Module 100.14.09
Kernel 2.6.21-r4
Xorg 7.2

I've tried everything. I can think of to fix it. The only I've seem that helps is using the NV module. This is quite madding. So it must be related to the Nvidia module. Has anyone got a fix. I've just tried Kernels 2.6.17.-r4, 2.6.20-r8 and I still get the same problem. I tried to use NvAGP = 0 which disables AGP Support, and that didn't work. Now I've set it to NvAGP = 2 which uses AGPGART if possible, this also didn't work.


Oh and I notice that most of my crashes occur when playing games, kstars, and google earth.

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[whig]

Check ram with memtest. Also check if any power to the card is plugged in (speaks from experience).

[DancesWithWords]

[BaYGoN]

Try upgrading the Nvidia module to version 100.14.11
I've had experienced lockups using the 100.14.09 too.

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[DancesWithWords]

[DaggyStyle]

is it ab laptop?
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[joaander]

DancesWithWords: I have *almost exactly* the same hardware as you. A Tyan K8W board with Dual Opteron 246's, except I've only got a lowly Geforce 6800 GT. I too experience crashes when playing certain games, whether it is under windows or linux. With very thorough testing, I am 99.9% confident now that it is the AGP bridge chip overheating that causes the freeze. I have confirmed this by putting a temperature sensor on the heatsink for that chip and crashes always occur when the temp starts reading higher than 135 F.

I have "solved" my crashing problem by putting a beefier fan in the front of my case. When the weather gets really really warm, this isn't enough and I need to remove the front faceplate on my case to allow more airflow in over the AGP bridge. Usually, that is enough to make any game playable except when inside temperatures start climbing above 85 F. One of the earlier things I tried was underclocking the HyperTransport from CPU0 to the AGP bridge. This did seem to help a little bit, but it wasn't sufficient to make certain games playable again.

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[hvengel]

I was having locks on an machine with an nvidia card. I have a 4800+ X2 amd64. The thing that fixed it for me was tuning off NUMA support in the kernel. If your setup only has memory directly attached to one processor you might try the same thing to see if it helps.

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[desowin]

I don't know if it should go into this thread but I get complete lockup when switch to console (ie. ctrl+alt+f2) and then go back to X (ctrl+alt+f7)
if I kill X session whilst in console and start new one, then it works without harm
can it be fixed or it's something what nvidia should fix?
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[novymir]

I'm getting this too. My findings so far -

- Same thing on both standard Gentoo & Sabayon.
- Stops happening when using the Xorg nv driver
- It doesn't happen in Ubuntu or any other distro I've tried of the past couple of months (I get frustrated with every other distro and come back to gentoo after a week or so).
- It started happening around August or so.
- I'm using exactly the same kernel .config for the past year so I doubt its that.
- It isn't reproducible, ie it happens completely randomly as far as I can tell.

I've got an AMDx2, ASUS Motherboard, GeForce 7300 GS.

Can't wait until the Nuveau is working well and we can ditch this binary driver rubbish....

MXV

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[hpeters]

[dmead]

i've got the exact same problem but with a 2ghz athlon xp and a 6800 OC


have you guys checked your system messages in /var/log/messages?


does it say dma timeout with one or more of your disks?

[loftwyr]

If you are getting DMA timeouts from your disks, that is either an hdparm issue or a hardware issue with your drives.
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