fan speed issue in 195.36.08 and 195.36.03 (may potentially destroy the GPU)

[syldeb35]

In http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html we can read:

“We believe recent NVIDIA UNIX graphics drivers are affected by a recently reported fan speed issue in 195.36.08 and 195.36.03.
Until the problem is resolved, we recommend that UNIX users revert to the 190.53 web release, or the 195.30 public beta.”

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 5a9ce4929743802693836978fa48f237
CheckboxSystem: b1865df84255b8716d3bcc269ff410d1
Date: Sat Mar 6 12:32:50 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
MachineType: TOSHIBA Qosmio G50
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: nvidia-current 195.36.08-0ubuntu1
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-15-generic root=UUID=ec5b7e63-157a-4688-ac02-f031ec844939 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=fr_FR.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-15.22-generic
SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-15-generic x86_64
dmi.bios.date: 02/16/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: TOSHIBA
dmi.bios.version: Version 2.10
dmi.board.name: Portable PC
dmi.board.vendor: TOSHIBA
dmi.board.version: Version A0
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: 0000000000
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: TOSHIBA
dmi.chassis.version: Version 1.0
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnTOSHIBA:bvrVersion2.10:bd02/16/2009:svnTOSHIBA:pnQosmioG50:pvrPQG55E-04Y00PFR:rvnTOSHIBA:rnPortablePC:rvrVersionA0:cvnTOSHIBA:ct10:cvrVersion1.0:
dmi.product.name: Qosmio G50
dmi.product.version: PQG55E-04Y00PFR
dmi.sys.vendor: TOSHIBA
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 codename: lucidarchitecture: x86_64kernel: 2.6.32-15-generic

[syldeb35 (sylvain-debray)]

From http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/announcement.php?f=14 :

After posting the 196.75 NVIDIA Windows graphics driver, NVIDIA reported the following message:

Quote:
We are aware that some customers have reported fan speed issues with
the latest 196.75 WHQL drivers on NVIDIA.com. Until we can verify and
root cause this issue, we recommend that customers stay with, or return
to 196.21 WHQL drivers. Release 196.75 drivers have been temporarily
removed from our website.
/Quote

We believe recent NVIDIA UNIX graphics drivers, 195.36.08 and 195.36.03, are also affected by this. Until the problem is resolved, we recommend that UNIX users revert to the 190.53 web release or the 195.30 public beta.

We are in the process of removing 195.36.08 and 195.36.03 from NVIDIA's FTP site.

We will post more information as it is available.

[Philippe Coval (rzr)]

just wondering is nouveau a reliable alternative to workaround this bug ?
--
http://rzr.online.fr/q/nvidia

[Alex Murray (alexmurray)]

195.36.15 was just released which should fix this:

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=148947

[Nicolas DERIVE (kalon33)]

@Philippe Coval: Under Lucid, nouveau is a reliable alternative. The positive point is that it supports KMS (and not only UMS like proprietary driver) but the negative one is that it doesn't support 3D acceleration.

[ChrisLees (christopher-lees)]

The recalled driver is still present in the Ubuntu repositories, with no earlier or later driver available. (the nvidia-glx-185 package is now a metapackage for nvidia-current, which is Nvidia's 195.18 driver). Don't you think this should be fixed?

[syldeb35 (sylvain-debray)]

No the driver available in Lucid repositories is still the 195.36.08. As soon as the packages will be updated to 195.36.15 available here: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=148947 , this bug report should be marked as fixed but not now.
I think Ubuntu can't release a LTS with a bug like this. (Easy to fix now).
Nouveau is an alternative for some users but as it doesn't support 3D acceleration, for a lot of users it's not a good alternative.

[Robert Hooker (sarvatt)]

Alberto has uploaded a 195.36.15 nvidia-current package, and it will be available as soon as the archive freeze is over when beta 1 is released.

[ViViD (vivnet)]

This bug affects me as well. Good to hear that it will be fixed soon. Though it seems as of right now it is available in Lucid repositories. I feel that while an archive freeze may be in effect, a notice should be made available to users. This could be easily done on the Beta 1 Known Issues section and would probably aid users who trust Ubuntu to provide reliable software through its official repositories.

[Robert Hooker (sarvatt)]

nvidia-graphics-drivers (195.36.15-0ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * New upstream release:
    - Fixed a bug that caused the X server to crash when rendering
      occurred while the X server was not on the active VT.
    - Fixed a regression that caused the driver to fail to properly
      adjust the GPU fan speed on some GPUs.
    - Fixed a bug that prevented performance level transitions on
      recent GPUs with SDDR3 and GDDR5 memory.
  * debian/nvidia-$flavour.{postinst|prerm}.in:
    - Call gmenucache trigger so that the icon of nvidia-settings
      shows up in the menu (LP: #522969).
  * debian/nvidia-current.links{32}.in:
    - Add link to libOpenCL.so in /usr/lib and in /usr/lib32.

Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:21:52 +0100
Changed-By: Alberto Milone <alberto.milone at canonical.com>

[Robert Hooker (sarvatt)]

The drivers aren't on the CD and the package has already been uploaded, so there will only be a very small time frame where someone installing will get the 195.16.08 drivers.