Bug#831974: black screen with nvidia driver

[Luca Boccassi]

On 24 July 2016 at 13:43, VA <bugs at indigo.re> wrote:
> Le 21/07/2016 à 00:02, Luca Boccassi a écrit :
>> Not the first time I see that backtrace, but I don't think it has
>> anything to do with the packaging, I'm beginning to think it might be an
>> incompatibility between the kernel modules in the older releases and
>> newer kernel versions..
>
> I've tried the experimental package of nvidia-driver, and it seems to
> give a black screen too (I didn't check the logs though)
>
>> Still, could you please attach the full system report with:
>
> Here it is:
>
>
> -- Package-specific info:
> uname -a:
> Linux hostx 4.6.0-1-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 4.6.4-1 (2016-07-18) i686
> GNU/Linux
>
> /proc/version:
> Linux version 4.6.0-1-686-pae (debian-kernel at lists.debian.org) (gcc
> version 5.4.0 20160609 (Debian 5.4.0-6) ) #1 SMP Debian 4.6.4-1 (2016-07-18)
>
> /proc/driver/nvidia/version:
> NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module  352.79  Wed Jan 13 15:28:49
> PST 2016
> GCC version:  gcc version 5.4.0 20160609 (Debian 5.4.0-6)
>
> lspci 'VGA compatible controller [0300]':
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GF104
> [GeForce GTX 460] [10de:0e22] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
>         Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd GF104 [GeForce GTX 460] [1458:34fc]
>         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 31
>         Region 0: Memory at f4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M]
>         Region 1: Memory at e8000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
>         Region 3: Memory at e4000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
>         Region 5: I/O ports at cc00 [size=128]
>         [virtual] Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
>         Capabilities: <access denied>
>         Kernel driver in use: nvidia
>         Kernel modules: nvidia

Did you try with the new version that was just uploaded to
experimental, 361.45.18-1, or was it the previous 358 version? Could
you please attach the report while running the new version, including
the logs with backtraces? Thanks!

Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi