NVIDIA driver causes kernel freeze

[Thomas Olsen]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:

> On 25/08/2010 22:02, Thomas Olsen wrote:
> >
> > Apparently it's a total no-go combo with this card and the binary
> > drivers. I just spend 2 hrs. trying everything I could think of but
> > the kernel freezes even before X starts.
> >
> > Thanks for all the help guys but I guess I'll have to find some other
> > card.
>
> Whoa! Don't be so hasty! :-) .
>
> If you say that it is the FX5900 card then it is a PCI Express card -
> and it is not THAT old! :-)
>
> OK I might be a bit hasty.


> According to the nVidia site the driver for it is the 173.14.27 which
> was only upgraded at the beginning of this month (4 August). The driver
> is here:
>
> http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-ia32-173.14.27-driver.html
>
> (assuming that you are using a 32-bit system, otherwise look for the
> 64-bit driver).
>
> For my money, if you are "freezing" even before X starts then there is
> some other problem - but I am only guessing.
>
> Well I *think* X tries to start because it writes a new Xorg.0.log but it
is empty while kern.log says:
Aug 25 13:32:23 tanghus kernel: [    8.859404] nvidia: module license
'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
Aug 25 13:32:23 tanghus kernel: [    8.859414] Disabling lock debugging due
to kernel taint
Aug 25 13:32:24 tanghus kernel: [    9.891499]   alloc irq_desc for 16 on
node -1
Aug 25 13:32:24 tanghus kernel: [    9.891506]   alloc kstat_irqs on node -1
Aug 25 13:32:24 tanghus kernel: [    9.891521] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT
A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
Aug 25 13:32:24 tanghus kernel: [    9.894480] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86
Kernel Module  173.14.22  Sun Nov  8 20:26:31 PST 2009

and the box freezes; Caps-Lock is unresponsive and REISUB doesn't do
anything.


> And you do know that the kernel was upgraded earlier today? Is your
> system up-to-date?
>
>
Yes I keep it updated but I haven't noticed any kernel upgrade. Just tried
to remove the dk sub-domain from sources.list (I'm in Denmark) but still no
kernel upgrades.

I've downloaded the driver (thanks for pointing that out) and then I'll wait
to see if a new kernel arrives within the next days. I always use aptitude
to update my system but I have forgotten how to see the history of the
latest installs/updates :-P

Thanks for all the help; I will probably be back with more questions ;-)

BTW: Just for trying something/anything I disabled "Look for AGP first" or
something like that in the BIOS. I haven't got a clue about HW so I don't
know what AGP is either ;-)

-- 
Best regards / Med venlig hilsen

Thomas Olsen
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