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<font face="Times New Roman">Seems to still happen with the 340
series of drivers. I just had two crashes in a row; the first one
was a freeze while running, and the second happened before X even
finished booting when I restarted. Relevant packages installed:<br>
<br>
ii glx-alternative-nvidia 0.5.1~bpo70+1 amd64<br>
ii libegl1-nvidia:amd64 340.65-2~bpo70+1 amd64<br>
ii libgl1-nvidia-glx:amd64 340.65-2~bpo70+1 amd64<br>
ii libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386 340.65-2~bpo70+1 i386<br>
ii libgl1-nvidia-glx-i386 340.65-2~bpo70+1 i386<br>
ii libgles1-nvidia:amd64 340.65-2~bpo70+1 amd64<br>
ii libgles2-nvidia:amd64 340.65-2~bpo70+1 amd64<br>
ii libnvidia-eglcore:amd64 340.65-2~bpo70+1 amd64<br>
ii libnvidia-ml1:amd64 340.65-2~bpo70+1 amd64<br>
ii linux-headers-3.16.0-0.bpo.4-all 3.16.7-ckt2-1~bpo70+1 amd64<br>
ii linux-headers-3.16.0-0.bpo.4-all-amd64 3.16.7-ckt2-1~bpo70+1
amd64<br>
ii linux-headers-3.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64 3.16.7-ckt2-1~bpo70+1 amd64<br>
ii linux-headers-3.16.0-0.bpo.4-common 3.16.7-ckt2-1~bpo70+1 amd64<br>
ii linux-image-3.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64 3.16.7-ckt2-1~bpo70+1 amd64<br>
ii linux-image-amd64 3.16+63~bpo70+1 amd64<br>
ii nvidia-alternative 340.65-2~bpo70+1 amd64<br>
ii nvidia-driver 340.65-2~bpo70+1 amd64<br>
ii nvidia-driver-bin 340.65-2~bpo70+1 amd64<br>
ii nvidia-glx 340.65-2~bpo70+1 amd64<br>
ii nvidia-installer-cleanup 20131102+1~bpo70+1 amd64<br>
ii nvidia-kernel-common 20131102+1~bpo70+1 amd64<br>
ii nvidia-kernel-dkms 340.65-2~bpo70+1 amd64<br>
ii nvidia-modprobe 334.16-1~bpo70+1 amd64<br>
ii nvidia-settings 319.72-1~bpo70+1 amd64<br>
ii nvidia-support 20131102+1~bpo70+1 amd64<br>
ii nvidia-vdpau-driver:amd64 340.65-2~bpo70+1 amd64<br>
ii nvidia-xconfig 340.46-1~bpo70+1 amd64<br>
ii xserver-xorg-video-nvidia 340.65-2~bpo70+1 amd64<br>
<br>
The boot record in /var/log/messages contains an interesting
warning from the driver right before the crash:<br>
<br>
Feb 11 10:24:36 tg2014 kernel: [ 50.289566] NVRM: Your system is
not currently configured to drive a VGA console<br>
Feb 11 10:24:36 tg2014 kernel: [ 50.289568] NVRM: on the primary
VGA device. The NVIDIA Linux graphics driver<br>
Feb 11 10:24:36 tg2014 kernel: [ 50.289568] NVRM: requires the
use of a text-mode VGA console. Use of other console<br>
Feb 11 10:24:36 tg2014 kernel: [ 50.289569] NVRM: drivers
including, but not limited to, vesafb, may result in<br>
Feb 11 10:24:36 tg2014 kernel: [ 50.289570] NVRM: corruption and
stability problems, and is not supported.<br>
Feb 11 10:24:36 tg2014 kernel: [ 50.529177] NVRM: GPU at
0000:01:00.0 has fallen off the bus.<br>
Feb 11 10:24:36 tg2014 kernel: [ 50.529197] NVRM: GPU at
0000:01:00.0 has fallen off the bus.<br>
<br>
From my own research I understand that the VGA/vesafb warning is
because this machine is booting in EFI mode where there is no
'raw' VGA device available, only an EFI framebuffer device.<br>
<br>
There is some older discussion on the Nvidia forums at<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/537302/linux/reproducible-nvrm-gpu-at-0000-01-00-0-has-fallen-off-the-bus-both-screens-black-xorg-at-100-/1/">https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/537302/linux/reproducible-nvrm-gpu-at-0000-01-00-0-has-fallen-off-the-bus-both-screens-black-xorg-at-100-/1/</a><br>
<br>
The final post in that thread (from 2013/11/13) asserts that the
issue may be due to powermizer settings.<br>
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