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mrunion

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From: Jonesborough, TN

Registered: 2007-01-26

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nVidia Error and Screen Flicker

After using my machine for random lengths of time (sometimes 5 minutes, sometimes 5 hours or more), invariably my screen will "flicker".  It's usually just the bottom 5th.  this usually occurs after trying to use the mouse scroll wheel to scroll a page in Firefox 2.0.0.4 that hasn't fully loaded -- but not reliable reproducable.  The only thing that's always constant is when the error happens, there is an entry in the "everything" logs that says:

Jul 16 16:26:34 plunkerbunkey NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 6, PE0000 0fc0 00f4f4fd 0000e7f0 00000000 00f4f4fd
Jul 16 16:26:34 plunkerbunkey NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 30,  L2 -> L1

Sometimes the L2 -> L1 will say L1 -> L0 or even L0 -> L0.  Sometimes the "30" in the second line is a 28.  I searched on the error messages and got a few things from nVidia's forums to try:  Setting "Option 'NvAGP' '0'" and such.  Nothing works.  I suspect from all the reading that it's an nVidia and/or Xorg thing in the way they are "communicating" or something.

Does anyone else have this problem?  Firefox is not always running when this happens, either.  Epiphany will cause the same issue sometimes.

Here's my system specs:

HP DV8000 Centrino Duo
2 GB RAM, Dual 80GB Drives
nVidia 7400 Go (256MB RAM)
Latest Community XOrg
nVidia Driver 100.14.11
Kernel 2.6.21-ARCH SMP

Nothing ever shows as hogging memory using "top" or the system monitor.  to fix the issue I just logout and back in (this restart X each time because that's the way I have it set in my settings).  I use Beryl and Emerald and restarting these DOES NOT fix the issue.

Any clues?

Thanks in advance!

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Matt

"It is very difficult to educate the educated."