X crashes on start with nvidia SLI

sdetheridge · 2012-11-11 22:19:19

I decided to install Linux on my desktop. First time installing Arch, but I'm reasonably experienced with Linux.

I have 2 NVidia GTX 580 cards in SLI running on an i7 system with an Asus Rampage 4 motherboard. (X79 chipset) - I also have two monitors.

I installed arch, X and the nvidia proprietary driver 304.64 via pacman. After a reboot I try running 'startx' without a config file to see if it works. It crashes on startup with a floating point exception inside nvidia_drv.so. Here's what the xorg log says about it:

[    28.571] (II) NVIDIA(0): Creating default Display subsection in Screen section
	"Default Screen Section" for depth/fbbpp 24/32
[    28.571] (==) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (==) framebuffer bpp 32
[    28.571] (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888
[    28.571] (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
[    28.571] (==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
[    28.571] (**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling 2D acceleration
[    29.373] (II) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Display (ACER V243H (DFP-0)) does not support NVIDIA 3D Vision
[    29.373] (II) NVIDIA(GPU-0):     stereo.
[    29.404] (EE) 
[    29.404] (EE) Backtrace:
[    29.404] (EE) 0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x36) [0x58a326]
[    29.404] (EE) 1: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x18e179) [0x58e179]
[    29.405] (EE) 2: /usr/lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x7f2edfeba000+0xf1a0) [0x7f2edfec91a0]
[    29.405] (EE) 3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so (0x7f2eda4b9000+0x1276f0) [0x7f2eda5e06f0]
[    29.405] (EE) 4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so (0x7f2eda4b9000+0x992a5) [0x7f2eda5522a5]
[    29.405] (EE) 5: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so (0x7f2eda4b9000+0x99be8) [0x7f2eda552be8]
[    29.405] (EE) 6: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so (0x7f2eda4b9000+0x99c8a) [0x7f2eda552c8a]
[    29.405] (EE) 7: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so (0x7f2eda4b9000+0xec3c3) [0x7f2eda5a53c3]
[    29.405] (EE) 8: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so (0x7f2eda4b9000+0xef6b8) [0x7f2eda5a86b8]
[    29.405] (EE) 9: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so (0x7f2eda4b9000+0xeff99) [0x7f2eda5a8f99]
[    29.405] (EE) 10: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so (0x7f2eda4b9000+0x55ac78) [0x7f2edaa13c78]
[    29.405] (EE) 11: /usr/bin/X (InitOutput+0xa72) [0x479f12]
[    29.405] (EE) 12: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x26786) [0x426786]
[    29.405] (EE) 13: /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xf5) [0x7f2edeb48725]
[    29.405] (EE) 14: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x26cad) [0x426cad]
[    29.405] (EE) 
[    29.405] (EE) Floating point exception at address 0x7f2eda5e06f0
[    29.405] 
Fatal server error:
[    29.405] Caught signal 8 (Floating point exception). Server aborting
[    29.405] 
[    29.405] (EE) 
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support 
	 at http://wiki.x.org
 for help. 
[    29.405] (EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
[    29.405] (EE) 
[    29.503] Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.

Relevant portions of my lspci -v:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF110 [GeForce GTX 580] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
	Subsystem: Point of View B.V Device 02ff
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 32
	Memory at fa000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
	Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
	Memory at d8000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
	I/O ports at e000 [size=128]
	Expansion ROM at fb000000 [disabled] [size=512K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: nvidia

01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GF110 High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
	Subsystem: Point of View B.V Device 02ff
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 36
	Memory at fb080000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel

03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF110 [GeForce GTX 580] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
	Subsystem: Point of View B.V Device 02ff
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 40
	Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
	Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
	Memory at c8000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
	I/O ports at d000 [size=128]
	Expansion ROM at f9000000 [disabled] [size=512K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: nvidia

03:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GF110 High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
	Subsystem: Point of View B.V Device 02ff
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 44
	Memory at f9080000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel

I tried the most recent Ubuntu live CD and X is not working on that either.

Any ideas?

sdetheridge · 2012-11-12 22:13:07

So, it would appear this is an issue with either multi-monitor, or my specific monitor. One of my monitors is a Hazro HZ27WB (2560x1440) - it's connected as secondary because it can't display my Bios/POST screens if I have it as the primary.

If I disconnect this monitor, X starts.

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#1 2012-11-11 22:19:19

X crashes on start with nvidia SLI

#2 2012-11-12 22:13:07

Re: X crashes on start with nvidia SLI

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