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Fal

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Registered: 2007-03-21

Posts: 30

NVIDIA - NVRM Xid problem.

Well I have a quite annoying situation here. My Nvidia 8800gt started overheating. not sure since when it has done that since I can't recall the last time I tried to play any games with it. yesterday I did and the result wasn't good. has some update messed up my graphics card or do I just need to finally agree to the fact that it's useless piece of hardware and get a new one...

ADD:
Looks like the latest played game was on 27th and latest update on 22nd and it didn't cause problems back then. Oh snap...

ADD 2:
Played around with some controls and found a way to keep it low enough. Perhaps it is not the graphics that's crashing... >.< Concider this solved.

Last edited by Fal (2012-01-30 11:37:58)

Fal

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Registered: 2007-03-21

Posts: 30

Re: NVIDIA - NVRM Xid problem.

What the *beep* is that?!

[ 1851.020853] NVRM: Xid (0000:01:00): 13, 0001 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000001
[ 1886.346208] NVRM: Xid (0000:01:00): 13, 0001 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000001

I found these all over my dmesg after managing to survive a complete computer freeze. (And no it was not overheating, it was this.)

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 3,742

Re: NVIDIA - NVRM Xid problem.

overheating

Follow the standard procedure: Give your PC a cleanout, removing dust from air intakes and fans.

With my laptop, I have to do this about every 4 months, otherwise it can shut down due to overheating - clogged air intakes.

Fal

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Registered: 2007-03-21

Posts: 30

Re: NVIDIA - NVRM Xid problem.

Thought it was overheating, did all you mentioned. Heat levels are now acceptable once again. How ever I started to get those Xid -errors (which came up with some old posts on KDE terminal resize and nouveau driver). Currently testing the nouveau but it doesn't work with the game I get the crash with (Fatal Error: ARB_vertex_buffer_object not available).

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

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Re: NVIDIA - NVRM Xid problem.

Check nvidia versions and bug reporting procedure.