[mythtv-users] X11 freeze w/ FC3 and nvidia 6629

[William Lott]

I managed to fix this and figured I'd post the "solution" in case anyone 
else is having similar problems.  Basically, I swapped out the GeForce4 
MX 440 for a GeForceFX 5200.  That's all it took.  Newer card -- no more 
driver crash.  Sigh.

-William



William Lott wrote:

> Hello All.
>
> I upgraded my FC1 box to FC3 over the weekend and now X11 hangs 5-10 
> minutes into watching recorded shows.  I can ssh into the box and kill 
> the X11 server (99% cpu, needs a kill -9 to actually die), but that 
> makes for a rather discontinuous viewing experience.
>
> Hardware:
>  ASUS A7V8X-MX SE mobo
>    VIA KM400 chipset
>  AMD Athlon XP 2k+
>  nVidia GeForce4 MX 440
>  512M ram
>  2x Hauppauge PVR-250s
>  2x Samsung 160GB drives
>
> Software:
>  FC3 w/ latest atRPMs:
>   kernel ver 2.6.10-1.766_FC3
>   ivtv ver 0.2.0-65_rc3g.rhfc3.at
>   nvidia-graphics6629
>   X.org ver 6.8.1
>   MythTV CVS from 1/1/05
>
> When X hangs I get a single line cryptic message in /var/log/message 
> from the nvidia driver.  Some examples:
>
> NVRM: Xid: 6, PE0000 007c 7f807e7f 0000fbb4 7f807e7f 7f7f7f7f
> NVRM: Xid: 1, Channel 00000000 Method 00000000 Data 80808080
> NVRM: Xid: 6, PE0000 06cc 7f7f8080 0000fbb4 02d07f7f 7f7f8080
> NVRM: Xid: 6, PE0000 007c 8080807f 0000fbb4 8080807f 80808080
> NVRM: Xid: 6, PE0000 007c 7f80807e 000065d4 02d08080 80808080
> NVRM: Xid: 1, Channel 00000000 Method 00000000 Data 817d7e81
>
> I've tried the other nvidia driver versions available at atrpms 
> (specifically, 6106 and 6111), but I can't get them to load into the 
> kernel:
>
> Mar  1 21:13:43 mythtv kernel: nvidia: Unknown symbol __VMALLOC_RESERVE
> Mar  1 21:13:43 mythtv kernel: nvidia: Unknown symbol pci_find_class
>
> From the log files, it looks like I'm using agpgart.  I haven't tried 
> to force it to use nvidia's agp driver because the README doesn't list 
> my chipset.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas what I might try to fix this?  With this 
> upgrade, recording seems stable for the first time since November.  
> But that doesn't do me any good if I can't watch!
>
> -William
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