Bug#903121: xserver-xorg-video-nvidia: blank screen, CPU fan goes to max and the systems freezes

[Luca Boccassi]

On Mon, 2018-07-09 at 13:41 +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> On 2018-07-06 14:17, Richard Levitte wrote:
> > Package: xserver-xorg-video-nvidia
> > Version: 390.67-2
> > it seems that a recent upgrade of nvidia-kernel-dkms and related
> > packages broke my system.
> > I cannot say what package this issue actually belongs with (help
> > appreciated).
> 
> We seem to have two issues here ... first
> 
> > With kernel version 4.9.0, I have a different issue, the modules
> > are not loadable, the reported
> > error is "unknown rela relocatable: 4" (as I understand it, there's
> > a relocation entry type
> > that 4.9.0 doesn't understand).
> 
> Try rebuilding the kernel module:
> 
> apt-get install --reinstall nvidia-kernel-dkms
> 
> The logfiles are in
> /var/lib/dkms/nvidia-current/390.67/*/x86_64/log/make.log
> 
> 
> I have currently no clue how to debug the second issue:
> 
> >  So fine, I upgrade to the latest kernel, 4.16.0, and this is
> > when I get a screen that goes blank and a CPU fan that goes to max,
> > and nothing else seems to
> > happen.  I also tried with the kernel 4.17.0, same result.  The
> > included Xorg.0.log is from
> > the run with the latter, but it's exactly the same with 4.16.0.
> 
> Is there anything reported in the kernel log at the time the module
> gets
> loaded? Needs root privileges to read ...
> 
> > All in all, that makes my laptop pretty much unusable.
> > 
> > The laptop is a Lenovo Y500, with a GeForce GT 650M (GK107).
> 
> Andreas

This is a laptop - isn't it an optimus system?

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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