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david_e

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From: Italy

Registered: 2006-08-28

Posts: 83

Nvidia GO 7400: Random beryl crash

Since the upgrading to the new NVIDIA drivers I have experienced random crash: when using Beryl X crashes and the computer freezes so I need to manually restart it most of the times (some times I can kill X and resume the system, but most of the times I had to restart it).

I have an NVIDIA GO 7400 which should be supported by the new drivers:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce Go 7400 (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 30a5
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
        Memory at d1000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]

I had similar problems with the 9746 driver, but I solved them with the:

options nvidia NVreg_RegistryDwords="PerfLevelSrc=0x2222"

option in the /etc/modprobe.conf. This is supposed to work with the 7800, but it worked well for me too.

I have already tried every combination of options in the xorg.conf and the option above in the modprobe.conf: it didn't help.

Now I am using the old drivers 9746 drivers which were working well... (still no crashes).

Anyone else experienced these problems with the new drivers?

PS: I am using kdemod with Beryl...

*** EDIT ***
It seems that this is not 9755 drivers related...

Last edited by david_e (2007-04-26 20:12:32)

denis

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Registered: 2007-04-24

Posts: 6

Re: Nvidia GO 7400: Random beryl crash

I experienced the same problem before switching beryl to Copy rendering with my GeForce Go 7300.
There seems to be a bug in the Texture_from_pixmap implementation when the gpu runs out of video memory.

The above workaround works for me, except that my window decorations turn white after a while and I have to restart beryl.

If someone has a better solution I'm interested too.

david_e

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From: Italy

Registered: 2006-08-28

Posts: 83

Re: Nvidia GO 7400: Random beryl crash

Thanks I will try now this workaround.

By the way: downgrading the drivers didn't help... the fact that everything was working fine before the upgrade maybe was just a matter of luck... (will change this topic title)

david_e

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From: Italy

Registered: 2006-08-28

Posts: 83

Re: Nvidia GO 7400: Random beryl crash

It keeps on crashing... I have tried almost every combination of xorg.conf options and the option in /etc/modprobe.conf with this "new" option for Beryl...

I just don't understand: everything was working fine a couple of weeks ago, now I get a crash every 2-3 hours

david_e

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From: Italy

Registered: 2006-08-28

Posts: 83

Re: Nvidia GO 7400: Random beryl crash

I am going with XGL since 2 days: no crashes till now... maybe it's an X related problem. Here is my X config. It should be ok...

Section "Module"
    Load        "type1"
    Load        "freetype"
    Load       "glx"
    Load       "dbe"    # <- maybe this one?!?
    Load        "synaptics"
    SubSection     "extmod"
        Option         "omit xfree86-dga"   # don't initialise the DGA extension
    EndSubSection
EndSection

and :

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Nvidia"
    Option         "NoLogo" "true"
    VideoRam       262144
    Driver         "nvidia"
# **************************************
# Tried playing with these:
# **************************************
# Option        "TripleBuffer" "true"
    Option         "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
    Option         "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
# **************************************
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option         "Composite" "enable"
EndSection

Last edited by david_e (2007-04-30 17:45:01)