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spektr

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Registered: 2009-10-03

Posts: 6

Sporatic freezing in X when compositing enabled (Nvidia-related?)

Hi all,

Since an update I did approximately last weekend to KDE 4.6.2-1 packages and nvidia driver 270.41.03-1, I've found that KDE will "freeze" for about 3-5 seconds at a time, seemingly randomly. I'm guessing it's more of a graphics problem as disabling compositing seems to prevent it.

Anyone else found any issues like this? I saw some other threads around KDE pausing when resizing a window, but mine seems to do it even when I'm *not* resizing!

I'm on x64, and am not running testing.

Last edited by spektr (2011-04-25 12:24:52)

spektr

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Registered: 2009-10-03

Posts: 6

Re: Sporatic freezing in X when compositing enabled (Nvidia-related?)

Hi all,

No one having this issue? I can't believe my setup is anything unusual (core i7/930, ASUS p6x58D-E, Nvidia GTX460). Am getting what seems to be some common errors cropping up in logs:

dmesg:

NVRM: Xid (0003:00): 8, Channel 00000001
NVRM: Xid (0003:00): 8, Channel 00000001
NVRM: Xid (0003:00): 8, Channel 00000001
NVRM: Xid (0003:00): 13, 0001 00000000 00009097 00001614 00000000 0000000d
NVRM: Xid (0003:00): 8, Channel 00000001
NVRM: Xid (0003:00): 8, Channel 00000001
NVRM: Xid (0003:00): 8, Channel 00000001

and Xorg.log

    33.788] (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (0, 7, 0x8000, 0x0000d674, 0x0000d674)
[    36.789] (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (0, 7, 0x8000, 0x0000d6c0, 0x0000d6c0)
[    39.790] (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 7, 0x8000, 0x0000d6c0, 0x0000d70c)
[    53.586] (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 6, 0x8000, 0x00005df8, 0x0000d608)
[    60.586] (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (1, 6, 0x8000, 0x00005df8, 0x0000d608)
[    63.587] (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 7, 0x8000, 0x00005df8, 0x0000e71c)
[    82.785] (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (0, 6, 0x8000, 0x00009ff0, 0x00009ff0)
[    90.718] (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (0, 6, 0x8000, 0x000076ec, 0x000076ec)
[    93.719] (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 6, 0x8000, 0x000076ec, 0x00005f6c)
[   847.259] (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 6, 0x8000, 0x000028f0, 0x00005728)
[   854.259] (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (1, 6, 0x8000, 0x000028f0, 0x00005728)
[   860.912] (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 6, 0x8000, 0x00006180, 0x000066a0)
[   867.912] (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (1, 6, 0x8000, 0x00006180, 0x000066a0)
[   870.915] (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 6, 0x8000, 0x00006180, 0x00003aac)
[   903.116] [mi] EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop.
[   903.116] 
Backtrace:
[   903.117] 0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x28) [0x49f718]
[   903.117] 1: /usr/bin/X (mieqEnqueue+0x1f4) [0x49eb14]
[   903.117] 2: /usr/bin/X (xf86PostMotionEventP+0xc4) [0x47bab4]
[   903.117] 3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so (0x7f0457f28000+0x46aa) [0x7f0457f2c6aa]
[   903.117] 4: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x698e7) [0x4698e7]
[   903.117] 5: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x118a93) [0x518a93]
[   903.117] 6: /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x7f045dee9000+0xf750) [0x7f045def8750]
[   903.117] 7: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so (0x7f0458a58000+0x6c1f0) [0x7f0458ac41f0]
[   903.117] 8: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so (0x7f0458a58000+0x6da71) [0x7f0458ac5a71]
[   903.118] 9: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so (0x7f0458a58000+0x7b104) [0x7f0458ad3104]
[   903.118] 10: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so (0x7f0458a58000+0x81c47) [0x7f0458ad9c47]
[   903.118] 11: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so (0x7f0458a58000+0x3e3d07) [0x7f0458e3bd07]
[   903.118] 12: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0xd7073) [0x4d7073]
[   903.118] 13: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so (0x7f0458a58000+0x3e2b17) [0x7f0458e3ab17]
[   903.118] 14: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0xd2b41) [0x4d2b41]
[   903.118] 15: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x2d201) [0x42d201]
[   903.118] 16: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x2131e) [0x42131e]
[   903.118] 17: /lib/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xed) [0x7f045ce6ff6d]
[   903.118] 18: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x20ec9) [0x420ec9]
[   921.560] (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000ab40, 0x0000ae58)
[   951.515] (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 6, 0x8000, 0x00004c48, 0x00006088)

Now, I've taken the advice of a few other threads and downgraded from Xorg 1.10 to 1.09, and downgraded my kernel/nvidia driver to 2.6.37/260.x, but for some reason it still doesn't seem to be co-operating? The only thing that works reliably is turning off compositing (and not using anything GL-related).

Ideas??

RiceKills

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Registered: 2010-05-31

Posts: 72

Re: Sporatic freezing in X when compositing enabled (Nvidia-related?)

I have tis problem occasionally as well. Its most likely a bug with the nvidia driver.

timosa

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From: Finland

Registered: 2011-06-26

Posts: 16

Re: Sporatic freezing in X when compositing enabled (Nvidia-related?)

I had similar problems, where X froze in my computer in 64 bit Arch Linux only (I can dual boot both 32bit and 64bit). Creating file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/use-events.conf with the following content solved the problem:

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "NVidia 9600 GT"
    Option  "UseEvents"  "false"
EndSection

The hint for this was found in Fedora forum (http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/i … 53744.html).

Last edited by timosa (2011-06-26 08:33:17)

hamelg

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From: France

Registered: 2008-06-19

Posts: 128

Re: Sporatic freezing in X when compositing enabled (Nvidia-related?)

Yes, had it today.
After https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/23381, another bug again
Xserser had frozen for about 60s with CPU busy at 100%.
Then, I found this in Xorg.log :

[ 40010.513] [mi] EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop.
[ 40010.513] 
Backtrace:
[ 40010.525] 0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x37) [0x80e8bb7]
[ 40010.525] 1: /usr/bin/X (mieqEnqueue+0x1d1) [0x80e7f41]
[ 40010.525] 2: /usr/bin/X (xf86PostMotionEventM+0xb0) [0x80c3d40]
[ 40010.525] 3: /usr/bin/X (xf86PostMotionEventP+0x6f) [0x80c3e8f]
[ 40010.525] 4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so (0xb4b09000+0x2acd) [0xb4b0bacd]
[ 40010.525] 5: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so (0xb4b09000+0x3908) [0xb4b0c908]
[ 40010.525] 6: /usr/bin/X (0x8048000+0x68de1) [0x80b0de1]
[ 40049.377] [mi] EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop.
[ 40049.377] 
Backtrace:
[ 40049.377] 0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x37) [0x80e8bb7]
[ 40049.377] 1: /usr/bin/X (mieqEnqueue+0x1d1) [0x80e7f41]
[ 40049.377] 2: /usr/bin/X (xf86PostMotionEventM+0xb0) [0x80c3d40]
[ 40049.377] 3: /usr/bin/X (xf86PostMotionEventP+0x6f) [0x80c3e8f]
[ 40049.377] 4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so (0xb4b09000+0x2acd) [0xb4b0bacd]
[ 40049.377] 5: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so (0xb4b09000+0x3908) [0xb4b0c908]
[ 40049.377] 6: /usr/bin/X (0x8048000+0x68de1) [0x80b0de1]

I'm going to try 'Option  "UseEvents"  "false"' ...

Wilco

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Registered: 2008-11-09

Posts: 440

Re: Sporatic freezing in X when compositing enabled (Nvidia-related?)

I had similar problems, where X froze in my computer in 64 bit Arch Linux only (I can dual boot both 32bit and 64bit). Creating file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/use-events.conf with the following content solved the problem:

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "NVidia 9600 GT"
    Option  "UseEvents"  "false"
EndSection

The hint for this was found in Fedora forum (http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/i … 53744.html).

Thanks, we have the same setup, 9600GT on 64 bit. I've added the file, X reports:
(**) NVIDIA(0): Option "UseEvents" "false"

Let's hope nouveau matures soon so we can ditch the unstable pile of crap Nvidia calls linux drivers

Edit: interesting comment found, apparently UseEvents is now true by default: http://magazine.redhat.com/2007/11/20/t … mment-1926

Last edited by Wilco (2011-07-02 12:17:40)