NVIDIA X driver causes flickering, crashes or hangs
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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NVIDIA Drivers Ubuntu |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Doing nothing special, my display flickered and those messages appeared in the log files:
/var/log/Xorg.0.log
[ 25121.917] (WW) NVIDIA(0): The NVIDIA X driver has encountered too many errors. Falling
[ 25121.917] (WW) NVIDIA(0): back to write-back cached memory.
/var/log/kern.log
Feb 12 21:26:57 obiwan kernel: [25078.679920] NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 6, PE0001
Feb 12 21:26:57 obiwan kernel: [25078.701158] NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 6, PE0001
Feb 12 21:26:57 obiwan kernel: [25078.721347] NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 6, PE0001
Feb 12 21:26:57 obiwan kernel: [25078.741324] NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 6, PE0001
Feb 12 21:26:57 obiwan kernel: [25078.761275] NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 6, PE0001
Feb 12 21:26:57 obiwan kernel: [25078.781157] NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 6, PE0001
Feb 12 21:26:57 obiwan kernel: [25078.801296] NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 6, PE0001
Feb 12 21:26:57 obiwan kernel: [25078.821163] NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 6, PE0001
I'm using an (lspci -vv):
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G92 [Quadro FX 2800M] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Dell Device 02ef
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
Region 0: Memory at f5000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Region 1: Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Region 3: Memory at f2000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M]
Region 5: I/O ports at df00 [size=128]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at f6e00000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Kernel driver in use: nvidia
Kernel modules: nvidia-current, nvidia-173, nouveau, nvidiafb
System is Kubuntu 10.10:
#uname -a
Linux obiwan 2.6.35-25-generic #44-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 21 17:40:44 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux
The driver is
nvidia-current 270.18-
The X server is also sometimes reseting itself (and thus closing the current X session) or even freezing the system. syslog entries at the relevant time:
Feb 18 23:07:08 obiwan kernel: [ 2582.965683] NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 6, PE0001
Feb 18 23:07:08 obiwan kernel: [ 2582.985837] NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 6, PE0001
Feb 18 23:07:08 obiwan kernel: [ 2583.005110] NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 13, 0001 00000000 00005097 0000020c b357e460 0000000c
Feb 18 23:08:12 obiwan kernel: [ 2646.812524] NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 6, PE0001
Feb 18 23:08:12 obiwan kernel: [ 2646.835663] NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 13, 0001 00000000 00005097 000015e4 ffe9e8e8 00000005
Feb 18 23:09:53 obiwan kernel: [ 2747.659517] NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 6, PE0001
Feb 18 23:09:53 obiwan kernel: [ 2747.680985] NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 6, PE0001
Feb 18 23:10:20 obiwan kernel: [ 2774.711218] dell-wmi: Received unknown WMI event (0x11)
Feb 18 23:10:21 obiwan kdm[1256]: X server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly