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quayasil

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Registered: 2008-11-09

Posts: 102

Strange: NVidia Quadro 2000 freezes after the 6th video mode switching

Asus P8P67 with NVidia Quadro 2000 and some 24" Asus monitor (SVGA/DVI/HDMI; DVI being used) and the most strange behavior:

1. if starting with display manager: after 6th sequence: Ctrl-Alt-F1, Ctr-Alt-F7 or 6th logout from my DE,
2. if starting with no display manager: after 6th `startx' and logout

my monitor and keyboard freeze (the monitor gets dark gray or black, sometimes with `no DVI signal' message). If I connect remotely and kill all GUI applications it unfreezes but I'm unable to start GUI once again. The most strange thing is that there are absolutely no error messages in logs.
Tried 295.53 and 295.49 drivers,
tried `vga=normal' boot option
tried `acpi_osi=Linux' boot option
tried changing USB ports and the keyboard
tried removing any `*hdmi*' modules
tried...
I have no idea how to deal with this problem. Seems like some video resource exhaustion but ...

*any* help welcome!

quayasil

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Registered: 2008-11-09

Posts: 102

Re: Strange: NVidia Quadro 2000 freezes after the 6th video mode switching

Solved by https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nv … s.22_issue

A new file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf :

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Option "ModeValidation" "NoTotalSizeCheck"
EndSection

fixed it.

Last edited by quayasil (2012-09-03 14:07:36)