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Syncopated

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Registered: 2015-02-07

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Intermittent NVRM errors causing Chrome to fail with nvidia driver

I'm using nvidia drivers from extra/nvidia with a GTX 750 Ti. I notice that when I'm running Google Chrome (some non-deterministic time after I start Chrome), I can get errors in dmesg like the following and the Chrome window starts to not redraw properly (When the Chrome window regains focus, most of it is black or garbled.). Sometimes, KDE is also affected and claims to perform a graphics restart. If KDE doesn't do that restart, I have to relogin to make the problem go away (restarting Chrome is useless). Apparently other apps are not affected. At least Konsole, Okular and the the desktop seem fine and redraw properly.

What problem might this be? A bug in the driver? A bug in Chrome? I misunderstanding between nvidia devs and chrome devs? How stable is nouveau? Last time I tried it years ago on another distro, it seemed quite buggy.

In any case, based on my understand of sound systems design, though I don't know Linux specifics, it's surprising that Chrome, a mere userspace app, can mess up the graphics driver, which I would expect to belong to the kernel.

[50626.766837] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 31, Ch 00000016, engmask 00000101, intr 10000000
[50627.908540] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 31, Ch 00000016, engmask 00000111, intr 10000000
[50629.413549] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 31, Ch 00000016, engmask 00000111, intr 10000000
[50630.866418] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 31, Ch 00000016, engmask 00000111, intr 10000000
[50632.398048] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 31, Ch 00000016, engmask 00000101, intr 10000000
[50647.715526] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 31, Ch 00000016, engmask 00000101, intr 10000000
[50648.760881] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 31, Ch 00000016, engmask 00000111, intr 10000000
[50663.082357] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 31, Ch 00000016, engmask 00000101, intr 10000000
[50663.168193] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 31, Ch 00000016, engmask 00000111, intr 10000000
[50663.210166] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 31, Ch 00000016, engmask 00000111, intr 10000000
[50664.656460] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 31, Ch 00000016, engmask 00000111, intr 10000000
[50665.762682] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 31, Ch 00000016, engmask 00000111, intr 10000000
[50669.179599] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 31, Ch 00000038, engmask 00000111, intr 10000000
[50683.324417] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 31, Ch 00000030, engmask 00000111, intr 10000000
[50683.649304] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 31, Ch 00000030, engmask 00000111, intr 10000000
[50686.911465] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 13, NVRM: Graphics TEX Exception on (GPC 0, TPC 0):     TEX NACK / Page Fault
[50686.911474] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 13, Graphics Exception: ESR 0x504224=0x80000041 0x504228=0x2008cf0a 0x50422c=0x2529f84 0x504234=0x4d900000
[50686.911484] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 13, NVRM: Graphics TEX Exception on (GPC 0, TPC 0):     TEX NACK / Page Fault
[50686.911491] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 13, Graphics Exception: ESR 0x504224=0x80000041 0x504228=0x2008cf50 0x50422c=0x252c474 0x504234=0x4d900000
[50686.911502] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 13, NVRM: Graphics TEX Exception on (GPC 0, TPC 1):     TEX NACK / Page Fault
[50686.911508] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 13, Graphics Exception: ESR 0x504a24=0x80000041 0x504a28=0x2008cf0a 0x504a2c=0x2529bc4 0x504a34=0x4d900000
[50686.911517] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 13, NVRM: Graphics TEX Exception on (GPC 0, TPC 1):     TEX NACK / Page Fault
[50686.911524] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 13, Graphics Exception: ESR 0x504a24=0x80000041 0x504a28=0x2008cf50 0x504a2c=0x252dee4 0x504a34=0x4d900000
[50686.911541] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 13, NVRM: Graphics TEX Exception on (GPC 0, TPC 2):     TEX NACK / Page Fault
[50686.911548] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 13, Graphics Exception: ESR 0x505224=0x80000041 0x505228=0x2008cf0a 0x50522c=0x2529c60 0x505234=0x4d900000
[50686.911557] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 13, NVRM: Graphics TEX Exception on (GPC 0, TPC 2):     TEX NACK / Page Fault
[50686.911564] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 13, Graphics Exception: ESR 0x505224=0x80000041 0x505228=0x2008cf50 0x50522c=0x252e374 0x505234=0x4d900000
[50686.911574] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 13, NVRM: Graphics TEX Exception on (GPC 0, TPC 3):     TEX NACK / Page Fault
[50686.911581] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 13, Graphics Exception: ESR 0x505a24=0x80000041 0x505a28=0x2008cf50 0x505a2c=0x25300a4 0x505a34=0x4d900000
[50686.911590] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 13, NVRM: Graphics TEX Exception on (GPC 0, TPC 3):     TEX NACK / Page Fault
[50686.911596] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 13, Graphics Exception: ESR 0x505a24=0x80000041 0x505a28=0x2008cf0a 0x505a2c=0x2529d84 0x505a34=0x4d900000
[50686.911606] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 13, NVRM: Graphics TEX Exception on (GPC 0, TPC 4):     TEX NACK / Page Fault
[50686.911612] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 13, Graphics Exception: ESR 0x506224=0x80000041 0x506228=0x2008cf0a 0x50622c=0x252a3c4 0x506234=0x4d900000
[50686.911618] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 13, NVRM: Graphics TEX Exception on (GPC 0, TPC 4):     TEX NACK / Page Fault
[50686.911624] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 13, Graphics Exception: ESR 0x506224=0x80000041 0x506228=0x2008cf50 0x50622c=0x252dd24 0x506234=0x4d900000
[50686.911635] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 13, Graphics Exception: ChID 0016, Class 0000b097, Offset 00001b0c, Data 0000f000
[50687.034496] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 31, Ch 00000016, engmask 00000111, intr 10000000

Last edited by Syncopated (2016-09-15 14:05:56)

myserg

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Registered: 2016-07-19

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Re: Intermittent NVRM errors causing Chrome to fail with nvidia driver

I have the same problem but with firefox/thunderbird. Can anyone help?

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 50,983

Re: Intermittent NVRM errors causing Chrome to fail with nvidia driver

Looks like texture memory access failure.
Could be due to an underpowered system. You can use nvidia-smi (and possibly nvidia-settings) to underclock or constrain the maximum power range of the GPU.
This depends on the actual device, but you must have CoolBits set to a value n | n&24==24 in Xorg conf, eg.

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf

Section "Device"
    Identifier "Default nvidia Device"
    Driver      "nvidia"
    Option      "NoLogo"          "True"
    Option  "CoolBits"             "24"
    Option  "TripleBuffer"      "True"
EndSection

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