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BitterCelt

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Registered: 2017-02-08

Posts: 23

Dedicated GPU crashing after random amounts of use in some games

After a random amount of time in certain games I get a gpu lockup with the following in journalctl

Aug 19 18:24:07 dagda kernel: NVRM: GPU at PCI:0000:01:00: GPU-49823a5e-68a0-a496-ed6a-a1fe9bb3f5d3
Aug 19 18:24:08 dagda kernel: NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 8, pid=33304, Channel 0000001e
Aug 19 18:24:08 dagda /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[1474]: (WW) NVIDIA: Wait for channel idle timed out.

I think it's a driver issue, but I'm not too sure how to downgrade to 440 to test that because it needs a patch and when I tried i ran into dependency trouble

IslandC0der

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From: Portugal

Registered: 2020-06-28

Posts: 39

Re: Dedicated GPU crashing after random amounts of use in some games

To downgrade nvidia and its nvidia-utils dependency:

sudo pacman -U https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/n/nvidia/{"nvidia-utils-440.82-2","nvidia-440.82-9"}-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

You'll also need to downgrade the kernel. Assuming you're using the default linux kernel:

sudo pacman -U https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/l/linux/linux-5.6.8.arch1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst