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Devastator

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[SOLVED]NVidia troubles after update

I've updated nvidia drivers to the latest version 180.22-1. After that I experienced several annoying problems - the first one is "shivering", the screen moves for one frame to the left or right and in the next frame it comes back to the right place. The next thing is messing 2D graphics from time to time - i.eg. the web page viewed in firefox becomes torn apart with some random content appearing (fragments of desktop background etc.). The last thing is Xorg hangs from time to time - all I can see is frozen desktop, or just plain black screen, but the system itself works (music plays and so on) - this happens always when I close Xorg (logout, shutdown, roboot... whatever), and sometimes just on random.

I've tried to change xorg.conf - disabling several options (even the RenderAccel), check the logs - they seems to be alright, reinstall nvidia from nvidia webside instead of the one from repos, use different desktop environments (KDE, Gnome, XFCE), but it didn't fixed anything.

I have Asus G1S laptop with GeForce 8600M GT card.

my current xorg.conf:

(...)
Section "Device"

    # unsupported card
    #VideoRam    262144
#    Option       "AllowGLXWithComposite" "1"
#    Option       "AddARGBVisuals" "True"
#    Option       "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
#    Option       "Coolbits" "1"
#    Option       "AllowIndirectPixmaps" "True"
#    Option       "AccelMethod" "XAA"
#    Option       "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "True"
#    Option       "DRI" "true"
#    Option       "PixmapCacheSize" "2500000"
#    Option       "AllowSHMPixmaps" "0"
#    Option        "BackingStore" "True"
#    Option        "DamageEvents" "True"
#    Option         "RegistryDwords" "PowerMizerLevelAC=0x3"
#    Option       "RegistryDwords" "PowerMizerLevel=0x3"
#    Option         "InitialPixmapPlacement"    "3"
#    Option         "GlyphCache"                "1"
    # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
    Identifier     "Card0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce 8600M GT"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen 1"
    Device         "Card0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "NvAGP" "1"
#    Option         "NoLogo" "True"
#    Option         "RenderAccel" "True"
#    Option         "TripleBuffer" "True"
#    Option         "RegistryDwords" "PerfLevelSrc=0x3333"
#    Option         "OnDemandVBlankInterrupts" "False"  
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       8
        Modes      "1680x1050"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       16
        Modes      "1680x1050"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       24
        Modes      "1680x1050"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

I thought it might be a hardware failure, but on my Windows XP everything is fine. Also before this update Arch used to be stable as solid rock .

Last edited by Devastator (2009-01-22 10:52:21)

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Devastator

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Re: [SOLVED]NVidia troubles after update

I have found an interesting thread: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=123912 - I think that this is the same bug I have encountered.

Is there any possibility to obtain previous version of the nvidia drivers? (I have cleaned the pacman cache unfortunately)

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firecat53

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Re: [SOLVED]NVidia troubles after update

I also have noticed this since upgrading (GeForce Go 7200 -- hp dv 6000) to the "stable" 180.22 drivers. Go figure -- the previous version was working perfectly!!  I looked around briefly for an old package.... anyone have the nvidia and nvidia-utils packages for the 177 series?

Thanks,
Scott

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Devastator

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Re: [SOLVED]NVidia troubles after update

Yesterday this link: http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/L … 2-pkg1.run was still working, though I have problems with installing it that way...

Though I am not familiar with AUR, I have prepared nvidia-177.82 PKGBUILD based on nvidia-beta package - currently I am trying to install them, and we'll see if it works at all .

P.S. Okay, I have no idea how to configure kernel paths required by nvidia installer t omake it work... If someone please could provide the working PKGBUILD...

Last edited by Devastator (2009-01-18 11:11:19)

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ahaslam

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Re: [SOLVED]NVidia troubles after update

A separate problem with this new driver: coolbits doesn't work & break 3D if enabled...

Mektub

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Registered: 2008-01-02

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Re: [SOLVED]NVidia troubles after update

I have found an interesting thread: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=123912 - I think that this is the same bug I have encountered.

Is there any possibility to obtain previous version of the nvidia drivers? (I have cleaned the pacman cache unfortunately)

With anonymous FTP you can get it from here:

joaopena.com

Change dir to Arch_Cache.

If you use a browser, the URL is:

ftp://joaopena.com

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Devastator

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Re: [SOLVED]NVidia troubles after update

Thanks a lot, but it appears, that these packages requires 2.6.27 kernel, while I have 2.6.28... I tried to use CVS version of nvidia-177.82-2, which has patch for 2.6.28 kernel applied, but it crashes right after start, as did several other attempts I did (I'd better not mention what packages I tried to install and how, because it was... unwise )

NVidia definitely screw the things up... hope someone will find a solution for this soon...

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DuGi

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Re: [SOLVED]NVidia troubles after update

A separate problem with this new driver: coolbits doesn't work & break 3D if enabled...

i have the same problem.

Last edited by DuGi (2009-01-18 22:06:03)

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kludge

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Re: [SOLVED]NVidia troubles after update

someone just mentioned in #archlinux that the PKGBUILD for the nvidia drivers requires kenrel26<2.6.28.  sounds like the nvidia drivers haven't been fixed up against the new kernel yet.

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ziltoide

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Re: [SOLVED]NVidia troubles after update

someone just mentioned in #archlinux that the PKGBUILD for the nvidia drivers requires kenrel26<2.6.28.  sounds like the nvidia drivers haven't been fixed up against the new kernel yet.

There was a patch that fixed this.
I couldn't find it in any Arch source anymore but i Googled for one and found this: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/20021768/ … 6.28.patch. I used the latest 177.82 for 2.6.28 PKGBUILD to make the packages myself.
The 180 series driver made my laptop freeze randomly but I didn't have that graphical corruption problem. So far no problems with the packages I built. Download them below if you're comfortable with installing packages built by me. Only i686, sorry.

nvidia-177.82-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz
nvidia-utils-177.82-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz

EDIT: Also see this thread.

Last edited by ziltoide (2009-01-19 02:47:53)

Devastator

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Re: [SOLVED]NVidia troubles after update

Thanks . I did as ajschwartz advised in that other thread (though using nvidia-installer would possibly make a mess in a system) and the system is up and working again.

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Re: [SOLVED]NVidia troubles after update

If anyone still experiences the glitches and graphics driver crashes, I must say, that I have just upgraded Kernel to 2.6.28.4-1 and installed the latest nvidia-beta drivers (180.29), and the problems has gone. I just have over 22h of constant uptime with some experiments with Compiz, some games, and other apps that uses 3D card extensively - no problems so far.

At last...

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