I've been having problems with the proprietary NVIDIA X drivers causing
X to lock up, causing about 100% CPU load as determined by top. It also
causes the keyboard to lock up, forcing me to reboot the system. The
system remains functional for other things; for example I can ssh into
the box (that's how I get it to reboot). Other programs started in X
continue to run.
This can be reliably reproduced by playing GNOME freecell under KDE for
about 5-10 minutes.
This isn't so much about that problem (I'm researching elsewhere) but
about this entry in my /var/log/messages file. This message appeared
when the system locked up
Dec 7 10:52:00 falcon kernel: NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 6, PE0000 1ffc
00106400 0000fdf8 ffffffff ffffffff
Anyone happen to know what is sending that message to the log? I'm
wondering if that might be the NVIDIA kernel module. OK, looking into
this a bit further I see that it is the NVIDIA kernel module (found by
grep'ing the messages file for NVRM). So I wonder what the Xid is? Maybe
something related to one of the applications that is running? It seems
that the Xid message appears every time the system locks up.
Particulars of my system:
Abit KT7A-RAID motherboard w/VIA KT133A chipset
Athlon XP1800 CPU
1 GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce4 MX440 64MB AGP video card
Fedora Core 5 with 2.6.18-1.2200 kernel
NVIDIA version 8776 video driver (latest stable)
My solution right now is to use the open source nv driver and forgo the
acceleration provided by the proprietary driver. I didn't have this
problem with the older 7xxx series drivers so I may drop back to one of
those.
Here's a few more messages extracted from the messages file
Dec 4 11:22:26 falcon kernel: NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel
Module 1.0-8776 Mon Oct 16 21:56:04 PDT 2006
Dec 6 21:59:38 falcon kernel: NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 5, Ch 0000001e M
000003fc D ffffffff intr 00000110
Dec 6 22:03:52 falcon kernel: NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel
Module 1.0-8776 Mon Oct 16 21:56:04 PDT 2006
Dec 7 10:52:00 falcon kernel: NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 6, PE0000 1ffc
00106400 0000fdf8 ffffffff ffffffff
Dec 7 10:57:11 falcon kernel: NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel
Module 1.0-8776 Mon Oct 16 21:56:04 PDT 2006
Gus
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