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FUBAR

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2004-12-08

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nVidia randomly kills my X

I've been having this problem for a few weeks now: under load my X hangs, esp when I try to start another program. It won't respond to anything, sometimes I can still move the mouse but that's all. If I had music playing, it'd play to the end of the song and then stop too.
I can still SSH into my box and kill of X, but I can't get it to "give me back my screen and keyboard": I'm stuck at vc/7 with a blank screen and the keyboard won't react. Usually I reboot the computer through SSH. Or when I'm too lazy to start up my backup box, I just do a hard reboot.

This is what I get in the logs:

May 24 15:51:03 ferro NVRM: Xid: 13, 0000 02009700 00002597 0000152c 00010001 00400000
May 24 16:15:22 ferro NVRM: Xid: 13, 0000 02009700 00002597 00000260 11190000 00400000
May 26 16:55:30 ferro NVRM: Xid: 6, PE0000 0004 00000000 00000004 00bc0004 00000000
Jun  3 16:13:26 ferro NVRM: Xid: 6, PE0000 0400 ff929292 1f929290 00000000 ffbfbfbf
Jun 14 11:00:35 ferro NVRM: Xid: 6, PE0000 0400 ff929292 1f929290 00000000 ffbfbfbf
Jun 15 16:59:59 ferro NVRM: Xid: 6, PE0000 0400 ff929292 1f929290 00000000 ffbfbfbf
Jun 16 11:24:16 ferro NVRM: Xid: 6, PE0000 0400 ff929292 1f929290 00000000 ffbfbfbf

As you can see, it's pretty randomly. I've been looking through my pacman.log to see if I installed anything special ever since the crashes started, but I can't tell.

I've always used the nVidia drivers from the repos. Up until v66.29 everything was fine. Even on v71.74-1 (installed April 5, 2005) it's been running quite stable. So I guess the crashes aren't originating from the drivers themselves. I haven't changed my kernel in quite a while either, I really have no idea what could be causing this.

My hardware:
AMD AthlonXP 1900+
512MB SDRam
GeForce4 Ti4200 64MB

My software:
xorg 11R6.8.2-2
fluxbox-svn 20050525
kernel v2.6.11 with ck3 patchset

Come to think of it: the NVRM Xid 6 errors have been coming in since May 26. My fluxbox-svn was built the day before. Could that be causing the problem?

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lanrat

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From: Poland

Registered: 2003-10-28

Posts: 1,274

Re: nVidia randomly kills my X

Looks like it might be two problems:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=24703

and one of them is related to renderaccel.
I didn't have this kind of problems myself so I don't know more about this for now.

FUBAR

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2004-12-08

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Re: nVidia randomly kills my X

Thx for the link, lanrat. I hadn't seen that topic yet. I remember playing around with my desktop around the same time I upgraded my fluxbox-devel to fluxbox-svn. I'd also played with the Composite-extension, but since it was so slow I disabled it again. I also disabled the RenderAccel option in my xorg.conf. However I neglected to disable AllowGLXWithComposite. I've done that too now.

I've also updated my fluxbox to the latest svn-version. It's not supposed to matter, but who knows.

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FUBAR

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From: Belgium

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Re: nVidia randomly kills my X

Had another crash today.

It seems it always happens when the system is pretty busy doing stuff and I open a new program in the process. The window of the new program seems to kill X. Last time it didn't even crash X at once: first the mouse became very sluggish and the response time was like with Windows 98 reading from a floppy. After 10 seconds or so, it didn't even react at all.

Once again I ssh'ed into the box and kill X and all, but I couldn't get the computer to respond to my keyboard input. I ran "export DISPLAY=0:0" in the ssh-session (I read somewhere that command might give me back my screen and keyboard) but it didn't help. Come to think of it, I should've ran startx too.

Anyway, some more info:

video driver:
nVidia 66.29-5, 71.74-1, 76.64-2 (currently using 66.29-5)
X.org
11R6.8.2-2
kernel
Linux ferro.begaaid.be 2.6.11-ferro_ck3 #1 Tue Apr 5 11:36:47 CEST 2005

the errors

May 24 15:51:03 ferro NVRM: Xid: 13, 0000 02009700 00002597 0000152c 00010001 00400000
May 24 16:15:22 ferro NVRM: Xid: 13, 0000 02009700 00002597 00000260 11190000 00400000
May 26 16:55:30 ferro NVRM: Xid: 6, PE0000 0004 00000000 00000004 00bc0004 00000000
Jun  3 16:13:26 ferro NVRM: Xid: 6, PE0000 0400 ff929292 1f929290 00000000 ffbfbfbf
Jun 14 11:00:35 ferro NVRM: Xid: 6, PE0000 0400 ff929292 1f929290 00000000 ffbfbfbf
Jun 15 16:59:59 ferro NVRM: Xid: 6, PE0000 0400 ff929292 1f929290 00000000 ffbfbfbf
Jun 16 11:24:16 ferro NVRM: Xid: 6, PE0000 0400 ff929292 1f929290 00000000 ffbfbfbf
Jun 21 00:46:45 ferro NVRM: Xid: 6, PE0000 0400 ff929292 1f929290 00000000 ffbfbfbf
Jun 22 13:38:43 ferro NVRM: Xid: 6, PE0000 158c ffc7c7c7 1fcacac8 00000000 ffc7c7c7

/etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "Files"
        FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
        FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
#       FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/CID"
        FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
        FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/artwiz-fonts"
        FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
        FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection


Section "Module"
        Load "freetype"
        #Load "freetype2"
        # Load "xtt"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "glx"
        #Load  "dri"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "record"
        Load  "xtrap"
        Load  "type1"
        #Load  "speedo"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Logitech Wheel Mouse Optical"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Gateway keyboard"
        Driver      "keyboard"
        Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "us_intl"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Iiyama Vision Master Pro 410 "
 ### Uncomment if you don't want to default to DDC:
        HorizSync    27.0 - 96.0
        VertRefresh  50.0 - 160.0
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "GeForce4 Ti4200"
        Driver      "nvidia"
        Option          "RenderAccel"   "false"
        Option          "NvAGP" "2"
        Option          "CursorShadow" "true"
        Option          "NoLogo"        "true"
#       Option          "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "GeForce4 Ti4200"
        Monitor    "Iiyama Vision Master Pro 410 "
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
                Modes    "1600x1200" "800x600"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

As you can see, the first time it happened was May 24th. So I think it's safe to say it's not the kernel: I've been running it since April 4th pretty much flawlessly.
I really don't know what could be causing this: it happens with 3 different driverversions!

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A train station is where a train stops.
On my desk I have a workstation.

FUBAR

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2004-12-08

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Re: nVidia randomly kills my X

celti suggested explicitly disabling Composite. So I added this line to the Device section:

Option          "Composite"     "false"

Hope it works.

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A train station is where a train stops.
On my desk I have a workstation.

droog

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Registered: 2004-11-18

Posts: 877

Re: nVidia randomly kills my X

I have had the same problem with the nvidia driver, It always happened when i opened or was using  gvim.  disabling composite like you did fixed it for me. It drove me nuts til i figured it out.