Nvidia driver seem to freeze screen (not the system!)

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#1

Hi everybody,

I just installed nvidia driver for my opensuse 11.1. Yast tells me that I have a GeForce 7300 LE graphics card. My system is x64 AMD Athlon based.

Well, when the nvidia driver is activated my system seems to freeze randomly, and I only can manually reboot the system by turning the power of my computer off. I cannot access to text mode, keyboard seems not to respond. But it seems that the system continues to work (if there are some programs running).

Currently I do have 3D acceleration deactivated. And I do not know how to correctly activate it…

Thanks,

Luis

#2

Are you using the nvidia proprietary driver
should be starting: G02-180.

rather than: G02-173.

#3

Can you post the contents of /etc/X11/xorg.conf ?
and the output of following commands in a terminal window
glxinfo | grep direct (as user)
rpm -qa | grep nvidia (as user)
su -c ‘lsmod | grep nvidia’ (enter rootpassword)
su -c lspci (enter rootpassword)

Question: did you do this? From the console (Ctrl-Alt-F1)
login as user
su -c ‘init 3’
su -c ‘sax2 -r -m0=nvidia’
change configuration
select RenderAccel and NoLogo from NVidia options
select Monitor, or VESA or LCD with right resolution and refreshrate)
check settings
save and exit

If you did not, do it and you will have 3D accelleration
Should work, but I know there can be trouble with these onboard GPU’s.

#4

Knurpht adjusted his/her AFDB on Tuesday 26 May 2009 20:56 to write:

>
> Can you post the contents of /etc/X11/xorg.conf ?
> and the output of following commands in a terminal window
> glxinfo | grep direct (as user)
> rpm -qa | grep nvidia (as user)
> su -c ‘lsmod | grep nvidia’ (enter rootpassword)
> su -c lspci (enter rootpassword)
>
> Question: did you do this? From the console (Ctrl-Alt-F1)
> login as user
> su -c ‘init 3’
> su -c ‘sax2 -r -m0=nvidia’
> change configuration
> select RenderAccel and NoLogo from NVidia options
> select Monitor, or VESA or LCD with right resolution and refreshrate)
> check settings
> save and exit
>
> If you did not, do it and you will have 3D accelleration
> Should work, but I know there can be trouble with these onboard GPU’s.
>
>

I had one of these as a pci-e card in this 64bit machine when I first
installed while waiting for my newer one and it worked fine with older
drivers from the Nvidia site, just before I replaced with a much better ATI
card I did notice with one of the newer drivers it had probs but do not
recall which version sorry.

–
Mark

Nullus in verba
Nil illegitimi carborundum

#5

Hi everybody!

I just activated the 3D acceleration as you told me in the previous post. Currently the system does not seem to freeze… hopefully!

Here are the output of the commands you ask me about (just in case you see anything!).

Thanks a lot!

File /etc/X11/xorg.conf

/…/

SaX generated X11 config file

Created on: 2009-05-27T20:39:56+0200.

Version: 8.1

Contact: Marcus Schaefer <sax@suse.de>, 2005

Contact: SaX-User list <https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/sax-users>

Automatically generated by [ISaX] (8.1)

PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!

Section “Files”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/local”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/Type1”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/URW”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/Speedo”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/PEX”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/latin2/misc:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/latin2/75dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/latin2/100dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/latin2/Type1”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/latin7/75dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/baekmuk:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/japanese:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/kwintv”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/truetype”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/uni:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/CID”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/ucs/misc:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/ucs/75dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/ucs/100dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/hellas/misc:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/hellas/75dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/hellas/100dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/hellas/Type1”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/misc/sgi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/xtest”
FontPath “/opt/kde3/share/fonts”
InputDevices “/dev/gpmdata”
InputDevices “/dev/input/mice”
EndSection

Section “ServerFlags”
Option “AllowMouseOpenFail” “on”
Option “ZapWarning” “on”
EndSection

Section “Module”
Load “dri”
Load “dbe”
Load “freetype”
Load “extmod”
Load “glx”
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”
Driver “kbd”
Identifier “Keyboard[0]”
Option “Protocol” “Standard”
Option “XkbLayout” “es”
Option “XkbModel” “microsoftpro”
Option “XkbRules” “xfree86”
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”
Driver “mouse”
Identifier “Mouse[1]”
Option “Buttons” “5”
Option “Device” “/dev/input/mice”
Option “Name” “Dell Optical Wheel Mouse”
Option “Protocol” “explorerps/2”
Option “Vendor” “Sysp”
Option “ZAxisMapping” “4 5”
EndSection

Section “Monitor”
Option “CalcAlgorithm” “XServerPool”
DisplaySize 380 305
HorizSync 31-83
Identifier “Monitor[0]”
ModelName “E197FP”
Option “DPMS”
Option “PreferredMode” “1280x1024”
VendorName “DELL”
VertRefresh 56-76
UseModes “Modes[0]”
EndSection

Section “Modes”
Identifier “Modes[0]”
Modeline “1280x1024” 108.00 1280 1280 1392 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066
EndSection

Section “Screen”
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection “Display”
Depth 15
Modes “1280x1024” “1280x960” “1280x800” “1152x864” “1280x768” “1280x720” “1024x768” “1280x600” “1024x600” “800x600” “768x576” “640x480”
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 16
Modes “1280x1024” “1280x960” “1280x800” “1152x864” “1280x768” “1280x720” “1024x768” “1280x600” “1024x600” “800x600” “768x576” “640x480”
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 24
Modes “1280x1024” “1280x960” “1280x800” “1152x864” “1280x768” “1280x720” “1024x768” “1280x600” “1024x600” “800x600” “768x576” “640x480”
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 8
Modes “1280x1024” “1280x960” “1280x800” “1152x864” “1280x768” “1280x720” “1024x768” “1280x600” “1024x600” “800x600” “768x576” “640x480”
EndSubSection
Device “Device[0]”
Identifier “Screen[0]”
Monitor “Monitor[0]”
EndSection

Section “Device”
BoardName “GeForce 7300 LE”
Driver “nvidia”
Identifier “Device[0]”
Option “NoLogo”
Option “RenderAccel”
VendorName “NVIDIA”
EndSection

Section “ServerLayout”
Identifier “Layout[all]”
InputDevice “Keyboard[0]” “CoreKeyboard”
InputDevice “Mouse[1]” “CorePointer”
Option “Clone” “off”
Option “Xinerama” “off”
Screen “Screen[0]”
EndSection

Section “DRI”
Group “video”
Mode 0660
EndSection

Section “Extensions”
Option “Composite” “on”
EndSection

Output of glxinfo | grep direct (as user)

direct rendering: Yes
GL_EXT_direct_state_access, GL_EXT_draw_range_elements, GL_EXT_fog_coord,

Output of rpm -qa | grep nvidia

nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-default-180.51_2.6.27.21_0.1-1.1
x11-video-nvidiaG02-180.51-1.1

Output of su -c ‘lsmod | grep nvidia’ (enter rootpassword)

nvidia 8150792 36
i2c_core 35312 12 tuner_simple,tda9887,tda8290,wm8775,cx25840,tuner,ivtv,i2c_algo_bit,v4l2_common,tveeprom,nvidia,i2c_nforce2

Output of su -c lspci (enter rootpassword)

00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2)
00:00.7 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:09.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge (rev a3)
00:0a.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP51 SMBus (rev a3)
00:0a.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a3)
00:0b.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:0b.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev a1)
00:0f.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev a1)
00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G72 [GeForce 7300 LE] (rev a1)
04:07.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
04:09.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)

That’s all!

Thanks a lot for your help! At the moment the systems still has not freezed!

Best,

Luis

#6

Dear all,

Bad news… my screen has freezed…

I had my nvidia card activated (3D acceleration) without the desktop effects. I just was running a VTK based application written by myself (it runs smoothly on i386 based systems) and after a few seconds the screen freezed. The only way I had to get of out that is rebooting the system.

I installed VTK from the Science repository, is this correct ? I found it on other repositories (Factory, etc.) but I thought that this was the best one. But I do knot think this may be a problem, since I do run the application as normal user.

rpm -q vtk

vtk-5.2.1-6.6

rpm -qi vtk

Name : vtk Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 5.2.1 Vendor: openSUSE Build Service
Release : 6.6 Build Date: dv 15 mai 2009 23:42:37 CEST
Install Date: dj 28 mai 2009 17:48:05 CEST Build Host: build22
Group : System Environment/Libraries Source RPM: vtk-5.2.1-6.6.src.rpm
Size : 44646759 License: BSD
Signature : DSA/SHA1, dv 15 mai 2009 23:43:48 CEST, Key ID 01db7302943d8bb8
Packager : Werner Hoch <werner.ho@gmx.de>
URL : VTK - The Visualization Toolkit
Summary : The Visualization Toolkit - A high level 3D visualization library
Description :
VTK is an open-source software system for image processing, 3D
graphics, volume rendering and visualization. VTK includes many
advanced algorithms (e.g., surface reconstruction, implicit modelling,
decimation) and rendering techniques (e.g., hardware-accelerated
volume rendering, LOD control)
Distribution: science / openSUSE_11.1

Do you have any ideas ?

Thanks,

Luis

#7

Hi,

It’s again me! I just installed the VTK testing programs and they all run well. These programs generate 3D figures and I’m able to rotate them with the mouse without problems. So I assume that the problem is somehow in my code…

Best,

Luis

#8

Hi everybody,

Yesterday I found that the problem in my code was the VTK libraries against which I link them. I use ccmake to automatically generate the Makefiles for the code, and it seems that this was the problem. If I compile and link manually the code the program runs perfect!

Well, there is another strange thing. After all the problems I had yesterday (with screen freeze due to the “bad” linked code) I found that this moorning my screen was freezing randomly, mainly when I was scrolling fastly an internet web page. I had to reboot several times and the screen always freezed again.

I confirm that I had 3D accerlation activated, and that the output of the lsmod, glxinfo, and contents of /etc/X11/Xorg.conf was the one that I posted a few days ago.

After all this problems I reconfigured X with “init 3” and “sax2 -r -m0=nvidia” again… and now all is ok! Any ideas of what may happening ?

Thanks!

Luis

#9

Hi again!

Sorry to disturb, but it seems that even with the previous reconfiguration of X (‘init 3’ and ‘sax -r -m0=nvidia’ and selecting RenderAccel and NoLogo) the screen freezes quite often.

It seems that the freezing happens mostly (but not always) when I surf internet with Firefox and I scroll very fast the page up and down. With other applications, such as evince (I scroll fast a PDF up and down) this does not happen.

Currently I do have 3D deactivated since the freezing is very annoying…

Best,

Luis

#10

Hi,

I have tried again to activate the nvidia driver for 3D acceleration (but I do not activate 3D desktop effects). I attach you the Xorg.0.log file where you can see what happens after the freeze. Take into account that I had to cut the log file since it is too long for begin posted in the forum (limit is 15000 caracters). I just indicate in the log where I cut the text.

Note at the end the “infinite loop” message. Hope this helps you figure out what is happening…

Best,

Luis

X.Org X Server 1.5.2
Release Date: 10 October 2008
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: openSUSE SUSE LINUX
Current Operating System: Linux baldufa 2.6.27.21-0.1-default #1 SMP 2009-03-31 14:50:44 +0200 x86_64
Build Date: 27 February 2009 01:56:35PM

Before reporting problems, check [X.Org Wiki - Home](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: Sat Jun 6 16:58:54 2009
(==) Using config file: “/etc/X11/xorg.conf”
(==) ServerLayout “Layout[all]”
() |–>Screen “Screen[0]” (0)
() | |–>Monitor “Monitor[0]”
() | |–>Device “Device[0]”
() |–>Input Device “Keyboard[0]”
() |–>Input Device “Mouse[1]”
() Option “ZapWarning” “on”
() Option “AllowMouseOpenFail” “on”
() Option “Xinerama” “off”
(==) Automatically adding devices
(==) Automatically enabling devices
(WW) <Several warning about fonts that does not exist>
(==) Including the default font path /usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/TTF/,/usr/share/fonts/OTF,/usr/share/fonts/Type1/,/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled.
() FontPath set to:
/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled,
/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,
/usr/share/fonts/URW,
/usr/share/fonts/truetype,
/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled,
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/,
/usr/share/fonts/OTF,
/usr/share/fonts/Type1/,
/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,
/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled
() Input device list set to “/dev/gpmdata,/dev/input/mice”
(==) ModulePath set to “/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/updates,/usr/lib64/xorg/modules”
() Extension “Composite” is enabled
(II) Open ACPI successful (/var/run/acpid.socket)
(II) Loader magic: 0x7b1680
(II) Module ABI versions:
X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4
X.Org Video Driver: 4.1
X.Org XInput driver : 2.1
X.Org Server Extension : 1.1
X.Org Font Renderer : 0.6
(II) Loader running on linux
(++) using VT number 7

(–) PCI:*(0@3:0:0) unknown vendor (0x10de) unknown chipset (0x01d1) rev 161, Mem @ 0xfa000000/16777216, 0xc0000000/268435456, 0xfb000000/16777216, BIOS @ 0x???/131072
(–) PCI: (0@4:9:0) unknown vendor (0x4444) unknown chipset (0x0016) rev 1, Mem @ 0xec000000/67108864
(II) System resource ranges:
[0] -1 0 0xffffffff - 0xffffffff (0x1) MX**
[1] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX**
[2] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX**
[3] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX**
[4] -1 0 0xffffffff - 0xffffffff (0x1) MX**
[5] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX**
[6] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX**
[7] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX**
[8] -1 0 0xffffffff - 0xffffffff (0x1) MX**
[9] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX**
[10] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX**
[11] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX**
[12] -1 0 0xffffffff - 0xffffffff (0x1) MX**
[13] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX**
[14] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX**
[15] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX**
[16] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX**
[17] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x00000000 (0x1) IX**
[18] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX**
[19] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x00000000 (0x1) IX**
[20] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX**
[21] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x00000000 (0x1) IX**
[22] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX**
[23] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x00000000 (0x1) IX**
(II) “extmod” will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file.
(II) “dbe” will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file.
(II) “glx” will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file.
(II) “freetype” will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file.
(II) “record” will be loaded by default.
(II) “dri” will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file.
(II) LoadModule: “dri”

(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules//extensions/libdri.so
(II) Module dri: vendor=“X.Org Foundation”
compiled for 1.5.2, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 1.1
(II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI
(II) LoadModule: “dbe”

(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules//extensions/libdbe.so
(II) Module dbe: vendor=“X.Org Foundation”
compiled for 1.5.2, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: X.Org Server Extension
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 1.1
(II) Loading extension DOUBLE-BUFFER
(II) LoadModule: “freetype”

(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules//fonts/libfreetype.so
(II) Module freetype: vendor=“X.Org Foundation & the After X-TT Project”
compiled for 1.5.2, module version = 2.1.0
Module class: X.Org Font Renderer
ABI class: X.Org Font Renderer, version 0.6
(II) Loading font FreeType
(II) LoadModule: “extmod”

(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules//extensions/libextmod.so
(II) Module extmod: vendor=“X.Org Foundation”
compiled for 1.5.2, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: X.Org Server Extension
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 1.1
(II) Loading extension SHAPE
(II) Loading extension MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD
(II) Loading extension BIG-REQUESTS
(II) Loading extension SYNC
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
(II) Loading extension XC-MISC
(II) Loading extension XFree86-VidModeExtension
(II) Loading extension XFree86-Misc
(II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA
(II) Loading extension DPMS
(II) Loading extension TOG-CUP
(II) Loading extension Extended-Visual-Information
(II) Loading extension XVideo
(II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation
(II) Loading extension X-Resource
(II) LoadModule: “glx”

(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/updates//extensions/libglx.so
(II) Module glx: vendor=“NVIDIA Corporation”
compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: X.Org Server Extension
(II) NVIDIA GLX Module 180.51 Fri Apr 17 00:35:49 PDT 2009
(II) Loading extension GLX
(II) LoadModule: “record”

(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules//extensions/librecord.so
(II) Module record: vendor=“X.Org Foundation”
compiled for 1.5.2, module version = 1.13.0
Module class: X.Org Server Extension
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 1.1
(II) Loading extension RECORD
(II) LoadModule: “nvidia”

(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/updates//drivers/nvidia_drv.so
(II) Module nvidia: vendor=“NVIDIA Corporation”
compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: X.Org Video Driver
(II) LoadModule: “kbd”

(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules//input/kbd_drv.so
(II) Module kbd: vendor=“X.Org Foundation”
compiled for 1.5.2, module version = 1.3.1
Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 2.1
(II) LoadModule: “mouse”

(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules//input/mouse_drv.so
(II) Module mouse: vendor=“X.Org Foundation”
compiled for 1.5.2, module version = 1.3.0
Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 2.1
(II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver 180.51 Fri Apr 17 00:15:00 PDT 2009
(II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 03@00:00:0
(II) Loading sub module “fb”
(II) LoadModule: “fb”

(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules//libfb.so
(II) Module fb: vendor=“X.Org Foundation”
compiled for 1.5.2, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: X.Org ANSI C Emulation, version 0.4
(II) Loading sub module “wfb”
(II) LoadModule: “wfb”

(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules//libwfb.so
(II) Module wfb: vendor=“X.Org Foundation”
compiled for 1.5.2, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: X.Org ANSI C Emulation, version 0.4
(II) Loading sub module “ramdac”
(II) LoadModule: “ramdac”
(II) Module “ramdac” already built-in
(II) resource ranges after probing:
[0] -1 0 0xffffffff - 0xffffffff (0x1) MX**
<removed the other resource ranges>
() NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (–) framebuffer bpp 32
(==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888
(==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
(==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
() NVIDIA(0): Option “NoLogo”
() NVIDIA(0): Option “RenderAccel”
() NVIDIA(0): Enabling RENDER acceleration
(II) NVIDIA(0): Support for GLX with the Damage and Composite X extensions is
(II) NVIDIA(0): enabled.
(II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU GeForce 7300 LE (G72) at PCI:3:0:0 (GPU-0)
(–) NVIDIA(0): Memory: 524288 kBytes
(–) NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 05.72.22.49.09
(II) NVIDIA(0): Detected PCI Express Link width: 16X
(–) NVIDIA(0): Interlaced video modes are supported on this GPU
(–) NVIDIA(0): Connected display device(s) on GeForce 7300 LE at PCI:3:0:0:
(–) NVIDIA(0): DELL E197FP (CRT-0)
(–) NVIDIA(0): DELL E197FP (CRT-0): 400.0 MHz maximum pixel clock
(II) NVIDIA(0): Assigned Display Device: CRT-0
(II) NVIDIA(0): Validated modes:
(II) NVIDIA(0): “1280x1024”
(II) NVIDIA(0): “1280x960”
(II) NVIDIA(0): “1152x864”
(II) NVIDIA(0): “1024x768”
(II) NVIDIA(0): “800x600”
(II) NVIDIA(0): “640x480”
(II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 1280 x 1024
(–) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (85, 86); computed from “UseEdidDpi” X config
(–) NVIDIA(0): option
(==) NVIDIA(0): Enabling 32-bit ARGB GLX visuals.
(–) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp
(II) do I need RAC? No, I don’t.
(II) resource ranges after preInit:
[0] -1 0 0xffffffff - 0xffffffff (0x1) MX**
[1] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX**
[2] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX**
[3] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX**
[4] -1 0 0xffffffff - 0xffffffff (0x1) MX**
[5] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX**
[6] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX**
[7] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX**
[8] -1 0 0xffffffff - 0xffffffff (0x1) MX**
[9] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX**
[10] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX**
[11] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX**
[12] -1 0 0xffffffff - 0xffffffff (0x1) MX**
[13] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX**
[14] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX**
[15] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX**
[16] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX**
[17] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x00000000 (0x1) IX**
[18] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX**
[19] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x00000000 (0x1) IX**
[20] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX**
[21] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x00000000 (0x1) IX**
[22] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX**
[23] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x00000000 (0x1) IX**
(II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized GPU GART.
(II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode “1280x1024”
(II) Loading extension NV-GLX
(II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA 3D Acceleration Architecture Initialized
(==) NVIDIA(0): Disabling shared memory pixmaps
(II) NVIDIA(0): Using the NVIDIA 2D acceleration architecture
(==) NVIDIA(0): Backing store disabled
(==) NVIDIA(0): Silken mouse enabled
() Option “dpms”
() NVIDIA(0): DPMS enabled
(II) Loading extension NV-CONTROL
(II) Loading extension XINERAMA
(WW) NVIDIA(0): Option “CalcAlgorithm” is not used
(WW) NVIDIA(0): Option “PreferredMode” is not used
(==) RandR enabled
(II) Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM
(II) Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension
(II) Initializing built-in extension XTEST
(II) Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD
(II) Initializing built-in extension XC-APPGROUP
(II) Initializing built-in extension SECURITY
(II) Initializing built-in extension XINERAMA
(II) Initializing built-in extension XFIXES
(II) Initializing built-in extension RENDER
(II) Initializing built-in extension RANDR
(II) Initializing built-in extension COMPOSITE
(II) Initializing built-in extension DAMAGE
(II) Initializing built-in extension XEVIE
(II) Initializing extension GLX
() Option “CoreKeyboard”
() Keyboard[0]: always reports core events
() Option “Protocol” “Standard”
() Keyboard[0]: Protocol: Standard
() Option “AutoRepeat” “500 30”
() Option “XkbRules” “xfree86”
() Keyboard[0]: XkbRules: “xfree86”
() Option “XkbModel” “microsoftpro”
() Keyboard[0]: XkbModel: “microsoftpro”
() Option “XkbLayout” “es”
() Keyboard[0]: XkbLayout: “es”
() Option “CustomKeycodes” “off”
() Keyboard[0]: CustomKeycodes disabled
() Option “Protocol” “explorerps/2”
() Mouse[1]: Device: “/dev/input/mice”
() Mouse[1]: Protocol: “explorerps/2”
() Option “CorePointer”
() Mouse[1]: always reports core events
() Option “Device” “/dev/input/mice”
() Option “Buttons” “5”
(==) Mouse[1]: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50
() Option “ZAxisMapping” “4 5”
() Mouse[1]: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
() Mouse[1]: Buttons: 9
() Mouse[1]: Sensitivity: 1
(II) evaluating device (Keyboard[0])
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device “Keyboard[0]” (type: KEYBOARD)
(II) evaluating device (Mouse[1])
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device “Mouse[1]” (type: MOUSE)
(II) Mouse[1]: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/TTF/, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/OTF, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/Type1/, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled, removing from list!
(II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized GPU GART.
(II) 3rd Button detected: disabling emulate3Button
[mi] EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop.
[mi] mieqEnequeue: out-of-order valuator event; dropping.
[mi] EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop.
[mi] mieqEnequeue: out-of-order valuator event; dropping.
[mi] EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop.
[mi] mieqEnequeue: out-of-order valuator event; dropping.
[mi] EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop.
<the same message is repeated a lot of times>
[mi] mieqEnequeue: out-of-order valuator event; dropping.
[mi] EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop.
[mi] mieqEnequeue: out-of-order valuator event; dropping.**************************************************************************************************

#11

Try a manuall install of an older driver like this
Someone recommended it earlier, did you try?
Linux x64 (AMD64/EM64T)

#12

Poor you. With 3D effects enabled this ( EQ overflowing bla) happens to me all the time. Without effects everything runs fine. I use KDE 4.2.4 on openSUSE 11.1 64-bit.
At least we are not alone with our problem and if you wish you can still use the old driver caf recommended. 180.* graphical corruption and freezes system - nV News Forums :frowning:

#13

Thanks a lot!

I’ll try to compile and install the old driver, and tell you what happened…

Best,

Luis

#14

Hi,

I tried to compile the NVIDIA driver (using the instruccions of NVIDIA/The hard way - openSUSE). I install kernel-source and kernel-syms, but the nvidia driver failed to install. Here is the log (I just mark in bold the errors output by the compiler)

My kernel version is 2.6.27.23-0.1.1.

Any ideas ?

Best,

Luis

Using: nvidia-installer ncurses user interface
→ License accepted.
→ Installing NVIDIA driver version 177.13.
→ No precompiled kernel interface was found to match your kernel; would you li
ke the installer to attempt to download a kernel interface for your kernel f
rom the NVIDIA ftp site (ftp://download.nvidia.com)? (Answer: Yes)
→ No matching precompiled kernel interface was found on the NVIDIA ftp site;
this means that the installer will need to compile a kernel interface for
your kernel.
→ Performing CC sanity check with CC=“cc”.
→ Performing CC version check with CC=“cc”.
→ Kernel source path: ‘/lib/modules/2.6.27.23-0.1-default/source’
→ Kernel output path: ‘/lib/modules/2.6.27.23-0.1-default/build’
→ Performing rivafb check.
→ Performing nvidiafb check.
→ Performing Xen check.
→ Cleaning kernel module build directory.
executing: ‘cd ./usr/src/nv; make clean’…
→ Building kernel module:
executing: ‘cd ./usr/src/nv; make module SYSSRC=/lib/modules/2.6.27.23-0.1-d
efault/source SYSOUT=/lib/modules/2.6.27.23-0.1-default/build’…
NVIDIA: calling KBUILD…
make CC=cc KBUILD_OUTPUT=/lib/modules/2.6.27.23-0.1-default/build KBUILD_VER
BOSE=1 -C /lib/modules/2.6.27.23-0.1-default/source SUBDIRS=/tmp/selfgz5888/
NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-177.13-pkg2/usr/src/nv modules
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.27.23-0.1-default/build
KBUILD_SRC=/usr/src/linux-2.6.27.23-0.1
KBUILD_EXTMOD="/tmp/selfgz5888/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-177.13-pkg2/usr/src/nv"
-f /usr/src/linux-2.6.27.23-0.1/Makefile
modules
test -e include/linux/autoconf.h -a -e include/config/auto.conf || (
echo;
echo " ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid.";
echo " include/linux/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are mis
sing.";
echo " Run ‘make oldconfig && make prepare’ on kernel src to fix it
.";
echo;
/bin/false)
mkdir -p /tmp/selfgz5888/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-177.13-pkg2/usr/src/nv/.tmp_ver
sions ; rm -f /tmp/selfgz5888/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-177.13-pkg2/usr/src/nv/.tm
p_versions/*
make -f /usr/src/linux-2.6.27.23-0.1/scripts/Makefile.build obj=/tmp/selfgz5
888/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-177.13-pkg2/usr/src/nv
cc -Wp,-MD,/tmp/selfgz5888/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-177.13-pkg2/usr/src/nv/.nv.
o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.3/include -D__KER
NEL__ -Iinclude -Iinclude2 -I/usr/src/linux-2.6.27.23-0.1/include -I/usr/src
/linux-2.6.27.23-0.1/arch/x86/include -include include/linux/autoconf.h -I/
tmp/selfgz5888/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-177.13-pkg2/usr/src/nv -Wall -Wundef -Wst
rict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Werror-impl
icit-function-declaration -fwrapv -Os -m64 -mtune=generic -mno-red-zone -mcm
odel=kernel -funit-at-a-time -maccumulate-outgoing-args -DCONFIG_AS_CFI=1 -D
CONFIG_AS_CFI_SIGNAL_FRAME=1 -pipe -Wno-sign-compare -mno-sse -mno-mmx -mno-
sse2 -mno-3dnow -I/usr/src/linux-2.6.27.23-0.1/include/asm-x86/mach-default
-Iinclude/asm-x86/mach-default -fno-stack-protector -fomit-frame-pointer -fa
synchronous-unwind-tables -g -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign
-fwrapv -I/tmp/selfgz5888/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-177.13-pk
g2/usr/src/nv -Wall -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wswitch -Wformat -Wchar-subscr
ipts -Wparentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wno-multichar -Werror -mcmodel=kernel -m
no-red-zone -MD -Wsign-compare -Wno-cast-qual -Wno-error -D__KERNEL__ -DMODU
LE -DNVRM -DNV_VERSION_STRING=“177.13” -UDEBUG -U_DEBUG -DNDEBUG -DMODULE
-D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(nv)" -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=K
BUILD_STR(nvidia)" -D"DEBUG_HASH=12" -D"DEBUG_HASH2=29" -c -o /tmp/selfgz588
8/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-177.13-pkg2/usr/src/nv/.tmp_nv.o /tmp/selfgz5888/NVIDI
A-Linux-x86_64-177.13-pkg2/usr/src/nv/nv.c
In file included from /usr/src/linux-2.6.27.23-0.1/include/linux/bitops.h:17
,
from /usr/src/linux-2.6.27.23-0.1/include/linux/kernel.h:15
,
from /usr/src/linux-2.6.27.23-0.1/include/linux/sched.h:52,
from /usr/src/linux-2.6.27.23-0.1/include/linux/utsname.h:3
5,
from /tmp/selfgz5888/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-177.13-pkg2/usr/sr
c/nv/nv-linux.h:19,
from /tmp/selfgz5888/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-177.13-pkg2/usr/sr
c/nv/nv.c:14:
include2/asm/bitops.h: In function ‘set_bit’:
include2/asm/bitops.h:60: warning: pointer of type ‘void *’ used in arit
hmetic
include2/asm/bitops.h: In function ‘clear_bit’:
include2/asm/bitops.h:97: warning: pointer of type ‘void *’ used in arit
hmetic
In file included from /usr/src/linux-2.6.27.23-0.1/include/linux/utsname.h:3
5,
from /tmp/selfgz5888/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-177.13-pkg2/usr/sr
c/nv/nv-linux.h:19,
from /tmp/selfgz5888/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-177.13-pkg2/usr/sr
c/nv/nv.c:14:
/usr/src/linux-2.6.27.23-0.1/include/linux/sched.h: In function ‘object_is
on_stack’:
/usr/src/linux-2.6.27.23-0.1/include/linux/sched.h:1993: warning: pointer of
type ‘void *’ used in arithmetic
In file included from include2/asm/dma-mapping.h:9,
from /usr/src/linux-2.6.27.23-0.1/include/linux/dma-mapping
.h:52,
from /usr/src/linux-2.6.27.23-0.1/include/asm-generic/pci-d
ma-compat.h:7,
from include2/asm/pci.h:96,
from /usr/src/linux-2.6.27.23-0.1/include/linux/pci.h:1026,
from /tmp/selfgz5888/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-177.13-pkg2/usr/sr
c/nv/nv-linux.h:86,
from /tmp/selfgz5888/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-177.13-pkg2/usr/sr
c/nv/nv.c:14:
/usr/src/linux-2.6.27.23-0.1/include/linux/scatterlist.h: In function ‘sg
virt’:
/usr/src/linux-2.6.27.23-0.1/include/linux/scatterlist.h:199: warning: point
er of type ‘void *’ used in arithmetic
In file included from /tmp/selfgz5888/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-177.13-pkg2/usr/sr
c/nv/nv.c:14:
/tmp/selfgz5888/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-177.13-pkg2/usr/src/nv/nv-linux.h:107:27
: error: asm/semaphore.h: No such file or directory
In file included from /tmp/selfgz5888/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-177.13-pkg2/usr/sr
c/nv/nv-linux.h:109,
from /tmp/selfgz5888/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-177.13-pkg2/usr/sr
c/nv/nv.c:14:
/usr/src/linux-2.6.27.23-0.1/include/linux/highmem.h: In function ‘zero_us
er_segments’:
/usr/src/linux-2.6.27.23-0.1/include/linux/highmem.h:138: warning: pointer o
f type ‘void *’ used in arithmetic
/usr/src/linux-2.6.27.23-0.1/include/linux/highmem.h:141: warning: pointer o
f type ‘void *’ used in arithmetic
In file included from /usr/src/linux-2.6.27.23-0.1/include/linux/compat.h:14
,
from include2/asm/mtrr.h:141,
from /tmp/selfgz5888/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-177.13-pkg2/usr/sr
c/nv/nv-linux.h:121,
from /tmp/selfgz5888/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-177.13-pkg2/usr/sr
c/nv/nv.c:14:
include2/asm/compat.h: In function ‘compat_alloc_user_space’:
include2/asm/compat.h:210: warning: pointer of type ‘void *’ used in ari
thmetic
In file included from /tmp/selfgz5888/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-177.13-pkg2/usr/sr
c/nv/nv.c:14:
/tmp/selfgz5888/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-177.13-pkg2/usr/src/nv/nv-linux.h: In fu
nction ‘nv_execute_on_all_cpus’:
/tmp/selfgz5888/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-177.13-pkg2/usr/src/nv/nv-linux.h:674: e
rror: too many arguments to function ‘on_each_cpu’
/tmp/selfgz5888/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-177.13-pkg2/usr/src/nv/nv.c: In function
‘__nv_setup_pat_entries’:
/tmp/selfgz5888/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-177.13-pkg2/usr/src/nv/nv.c:944: warning
: comparison between signed and unsigned
/tmp/selfgz5888/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-177.13-pkg2/usr/src/nv/nv.c: In function
‘__nv_restore_pat_entries’:
/tmp/selfgz5888/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-177.13-pkg2/usr/src/nv/nv.c:970: warning
: comparison between signed and unsigned
/tmp/selfgz5888/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-177.13-pkg2/usr/src/nv/nv.c: In function
‘nv_kern_cpu_callback’:
/tmp/selfgz5888/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-177.13-pkg2/usr/src/nv/nv.c:1296: warnin
g: comparison between signed and unsigned
/tmp/selfgz5888/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-177.13-pkg2/usr/src/nv/nv.c:1299: error:
too many arguments to function ‘smp_call_function’
/tmp/selfgz5888/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-177.13-pkg2/usr/src/nv/nv.c:1303: warnin
g: comparison between signed and unsigned
/tmp/selfgz5888/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-177.13-pkg2/usr/src/nv/nv.c:1306: error:
too many arguments to function ‘smp_call_function’
make[4]: *** [/tmp/selfgz5888/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-177.13-pkg2/usr/src/nv/nv.
o] Error 1
make[3]: *** [module/tmp/selfgz5888/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-177.13-pkg2/usr/sr
c/nv] Error 2
make[2]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
NVIDIA: left KBUILD.
nvidia.ko failed to build!
make[1]: *** [module] Error 1
make: *** [module] Error 2
→ Error.
ERROR: Unable to build the NVIDIA kernel module.
ERROR: Installation has failed. Please see the file
‘/var/log/nvidia-installer.log’ for details. You may find suggestions
on fixing installation problems in the README available on the Linux
driver download page at Welcome to NVIDIA - World Leader in Visual Computing Technologies.

#15

Hi. Looks like the kernel-headers are missing. Just install them and try again. Good luck!

#16

Dear all,

Thanks a lot for all your help! I just installed the latest version of the nvidia driver, available in the nvidia repository, and now the random freeze problems disappeared. The version I installed is: 185.18.14-2.2.

Best, lol!

Luis