GPU lock up with nvidia GeForce4 MX and nouveau driver

coogy · 2012-08-04 10:45:40

hello

getting a "GPU lock out" message when booting Arch - Geforce4 MX 64mb card

extract from dmseg:-

[ 24.175980] [TTM] Initializing pool allocator
[ 24.176007] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Detected 64MiB VRAM (DDR1)
[ 24.176569] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: AGP 2.0 bridge
[ 24.176598] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: putting AGP V2 device into 4x mode
[ 24.176638] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: putting AGP V2 device into 4x mode
[ 24.176735] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: 128 MiB GART (aperture)
[ 24.176831] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Saving VGA fonts
[ 24.235131] [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 1 (10.10.2010).
[ 24.235137] [drm] No driver support for vblank timestamp query.
[ 24.240867] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: 1 available performance level(s)
[ 24.240874] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: 0: memory 270MHz
[ 24.240879] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: c: core 249MHz memory 279MHz
[ 24.242940] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: 0xE72C: Parsing digital output script table
[ 24.265606] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Setting dpms mode 3 on vga encoder (output 0)
[ 24.265613] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Setting dpms mode 3 on tmds encoder (output 1)
[ 24.265619] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Setting dpms mode 3 on TV encoder (output 2)
[ 24.344176] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: allocated 1280x1024 fb: 0x49000, bo f5859e00
[ 24.344385] fbcon: nouveaufb (fb0) is primary device
[ 24.368223] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Setting dpms mode 0 on vga encoder (output 0)
[ 24.368232] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Output VGA-1 is running on CRTC 0 using output A
[ 24.403590] firewire_core 0000:04:0c.0: created device fw0: GUID 805b0600a8678400, S400
[ 24.447427] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon
[ 24.451362] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 160x64
[ 24.458961] fb0: nouveaufb frame buffer device
[ 24.458965] drm: registered panic notifier
[ 24.458975] [drm] Initialized nouveau 1.0.0 20120316 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 0
[ 24.593364] intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 50169 usecs (2810 samples)
[ 24.593371] intel8x0: clocking to 41135
[ 26.447145] EXT4-fs (sdc3): re-mounted. Opts: (null)
[ 26.543027] EXT4-fs (sdc1): mounting ext2 file system using the ext4 subsystem
[ 26.551916] EXT4-fs (sdc1): mounted filesystem without journal. Opts: (null)
[ 26.552444] EXT4-fs (sda1): mounting ext3 file system using the ext4 subsystem
[ 26.584073] EXT4-fs (sda1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[ 26.664062] Adding 530140k swap on /dev/sdc2. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:530140k

Does anyone know if this looks like a hardware issue or a driver (drm) probelm? Very old card so sort of expecting it to be hardware related.

Strangely I can clear the problem and get into X by fsking the discs from Ubuntu recovery console (dual booting the two) - just thinking whether there's a lock file somewhere not getting cleaned up or something?

City-busz · 2012-08-04 13:54:35

I confirm this. I have the same card (NV17 [GeForce4 MX 440]), and I get random lockups with the nouveau driver and a recent kernel. It's probably a memory handling problem in the DRM driver.

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#1 2012-08-04 10:45:40

GPU lock up with nvidia GeForce4 MX and nouveau driver

#2 2012-08-04 13:54:35

Re: GPU lock up with nvidia GeForce4 MX and nouveau driver

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