[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#596878: nvidia-kernel-dkms: Hang ups within a few minutes after startup

[Manuel Bilderbeek]

Package: nvidia-kernel-dkms
Version: 195.36.31-3
Severity: normal

I'm in testing upgrading daily and following the drivers from unstable.
About a week ago (when I was still running the previous nvidia driver
x.24 I believe), I suddenly started to experience hang ups.

What happens is that either, everything freezes, except for the mouse
cursor, or the screen starts flickering heavily and everything freezes
(couldn't find the mouse cursor to check). So, sometimes the screen is
flickering heavily (the lower on the screen, the more flickering), or no
flickering, but in any case it hangs up.

This happens within a few minutes after startup. But, not always. If it
doesn't happen withing a few minutes, it just runs normally.

I upgraded yesterday to the latest nVidia drivers, but that didn't fix
it, as I just got it again.

I can only recover by using Alt-SysRq triggers to reboot.

I see the following in kernel.log:

Sep 14 18:38:05 sonata kernel: [  360.678131] NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 6, PE0001 
Sep 14 18:38:05 sonata kernel: [  360.719014] NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 6, PE0001 
Sep 14 18:39:52 sonata kernel: [  467.257797] NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 8, Channel 0000007e

and this in Xorg.0.log:

(WW) Sep 14 18:37:58 NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 6, 0x8000, 0x00009074, 0x00009dd4)
(WW) Sep 14 18:38:05 NVIDIA(0): WAIT (1, 6, 0x8000, 0x00009074, 0x00009dd4)

There are no other obvious things in the logging that could be related.

-- Package-specific info:
uname -a:
Linux sonata 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Wed Aug 25 13:59:41 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux

/proc/version:
Linux version 2.6.32-5-amd64 (Debian 2.6.32-21) (ben at decadent.org.uk) (gcc version 4.3.5 (Debian 4.3.5-2) ) #1 SMP Wed Aug 25 13:59:41 UTC 2010

/proc/driver/nvidia/version: 
NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module  195.36.31  Thu Jun  3 08:19:50 PDT 2010
GCC version:  gcc version 4.3.5 (Debian 4.3.5-2) 

lspci 'VGA compatible controller [0300]':
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation G92 [GeForce 8800 GT] [10de:0611] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
	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 fd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
	Region 1: Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
	Region 3: Memory at fa000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M]
	Region 5: I/O ports at cc00 [size=128]
	[virtual] Expansion ROM at fe9e0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: nvidia


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages nvidia-kernel-dkms depends on:
ii  dkms                          2.1.1.2-5  Dynamic Kernel Module Support Fram
ii  nvidia-kernel-common          20100522+1 NVIDIA binary kernel module suppor

Versions of packages nvidia-kernel-dkms recommends:
ii  nvidia-glx [nvidia-glx]      195.36.31-3 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver

nvidia-kernel-dkms suggests no packages.

Versions of packages nvidia-glx depends on:
ii  dpkg                         1.15.8.4    Debian package management system
ii  libc6                        2.11.2-2    Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libgl1-nvidia-glx [libgl1-nv 195.36.31-3 NVIDIA binary OpenGL libraries
ii  libglx-nvidia-alternatives   195.36.31-3 simplifies replacing Xorg module l
ii  nvidia-kernel-dkms [nvidia-k 195.36.31-3 NVIDIA binary kernel module DKMS s

Versions of packages nvidia-kernel-dkms is related to:
ii  binutils                     2.20.1-12   The GNU assembler, linker and bina
pn  binutils-gold                <none>      (no description available)
ii  linux-headers-2.6-amd64 [lin 2.6.32+28   Header files for Linux 2.6-amd64 (
ii  linux-headers-2.6.32-5-amd64 2.6.32-21   Header files for Linux 2.6.32-5-am
ii  nvidia-glx [nvidia-glx]      195.36.31-3 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver
ii  nvidia-kernel-common         20100522+1  NVIDIA binary kernel module suppor
ii  nvidia-kernel-dkms [nvidia-k 195.36.31-3 NVIDIA binary kernel module DKMS s
pn  nvidia-kernel-source         <none>      (no description available)
ii  xserver-xorg                 1:7.5+6     the X.Org X server
ii  xserver-xorg-core            2:1.7.7-4   Xorg X server - core server

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