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charti

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From: Germany, Erfurt

Registered: 2009-10-30

Posts: 4

[solved] ASUS L50V: nvidia driver causes X crash/freeze

EDIT: omg.... I had 3 mounth this problem and asus just found 10 days ago the solution... a bios update ^^

hey guys,

first I want to excuse my poor english ... I will try to write clearly

so my problem you can read in the subject line, I 've got a nvidia 9650 mobile GT and an arch 86_64. I tryed everything I found about that topic. so I ran the present release 185.18.36-2, the beta 190.42-1 and the downgraded one 185.18.14-1. everything with the same result, X starts and look good but after some clicks or window movings it freezes and after that the monitor begin to flicker black and nothing work anymore....
here is my xorg.conf:

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder58)  Tue Oct 20 21:25:04 PDT 2009


Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    HorizSync       28.0 - 33.0
    VertRefresh     43.0 - 72.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

ok guys, I count on you

Last edited by charti (2009-10-30 13:57:21)

adoroo

Member

Registered: 2009-11-01

Posts: 4

Re: [solved] ASUS L50V: nvidia driver causes X crash/freeze

Well, you have to count on nvidia or Asus.
I own a M50VN with the same card; the last working nvidia driver is 180.60.
With more recent versions my X experience is like yours.
It seems that Vista is also affected (never tried, I stick with the manufacturer drivers).

The problem lies in the powermizer;  see http://tutanhamon.com.ua/technovodstvo/ … IX-driver/; this page explains very well how to tune it.

Disabling powermizer with:
Option     "RegistryDwords" "PerfLevelSrc=0x2222"
fixes the issue, but the GPU works at full clock frequency.

In the next hours I'll be forced to do more testing because I don't kwow if 180.60 works with the new Xorg.

adoroo

Member

Registered: 2009-11-01

Posts: 4

Re: [solved] ASUS L50V: nvidia driver causes X crash/freeze

Well, I downloaded and installed version 212 BIOS. No more flickering. No more need to setup RegistryDwords!

Previously the update wasn't offered in the official download page for the M50VN.
Description: BIOS 212 - Update VBIOS to fix VGA flicker and freeze problem.
File Size: 753.97 (KBytes)
2009/11/17 update