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Registered: 2019-04-01

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nVidia 960M seemingly bricked while using pcsx2

Hello,

This happened a while ago but I only now have the time to address it. So i installed pcsx2 1.4.0-8 to test it out. I had previously been using the card with no issues (was working with both nouveau and the proprietary drivers and bumblebee/primusrun). However, when I was running the emulator with a game image I experienced a complete stall, accompanied by a loud "hardware buzz" sound. Everything was completely unresponsive and I was forced to do a hard shutdown by holding the power button. Upon restarting however, the card was detected but unusable. Is it possible that the emulator could have caused this, or is it likely just coincidence, ie the card would have failed no matter what I was doing. Also, I am not sure how to diagnose this issue, and am not even sure if it is software or hardware related.

Tech Specs:

• Dell XPS 9550, Intel i7-6700HQ @ 2.60GHz, dual booting with Windows 10

• output of uname -a

  Linux gandalf 5.0.4-arch1-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Mar 23 21:00:33 UTC 2019 x86_64 GNU/Linux

• output of lspci -kv

  01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM107M [GeForce GTX 960M] (rev a2)
  	Subsystem: Dell XPS 15 9550
  	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
  	Memory at dc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
  	Memory at b0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
  	Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
  	I/O ports at e000 [size=128]
  	[virtual] Expansion ROM at dd000000 [disabled] [size=512K]
  	Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 3
  	Capabilities: [68] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
  	Capabilities: [78] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
  	Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
  	Capabilities: [250] Latency Tolerance Reporting
  	Capabilities: [258] L1 PM Substates
  	Capabilities: [128] Power Budgeting <?>
  	Capabilities: [600] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 Len=024 <?>
  	Capabilities: [900] Secondary PCI Express <?>
  	Kernel driver in use: nvidia
  	Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia

• nvidia driver version: 

  418.56-3

Error messages, after initializing driver with primusrun

• dmesg

  [   46.886491] nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
  [   46.886499] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
  [   46.886500] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
  [   46.890046] nvidia: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel
  [   46.901626] nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 235
  [   46.901844] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: enabling device (0006 -> 0007)
  [   47.002157] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module  418.56  Fri Mar 15 12:59:26 CDT 2019
  [   47.036058] ACPI Warning: \_SB.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20181213/nsarguments-66)
  [   47.235278] NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x25:0x40:1084)
  [   47.235306] NVRM: rm_init_adapter failed for device bearing minor number 0
  [   48.084643] fuse init (API version 7.28)

Things I have tried:

• clean reinstall of arch

• booted into windows 10, the device manager detected the graphics card but gave a vague error and attempting to install nvidia proprietary drivers failed (installer could not detect a valid card)

• use nouveau drivers

• used the following boot parameters

  pcie_aspm=off rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay=1

Here is the nvidia-bug-report, not sure what could be relevant so its the entire thing.

note: current arch setup is completely fresh and up to date, both nouveau and proprietary drivers are installed, proprietary ones are in use.

Any help is appreciated