Bug 114895

Summary: Display problems with NVIDIA binary drivers
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: Susan Calvin <jmwk>
Component: X11 3rd PartyAssignee: Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: Beta 4   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: i686   
OS: SUSE Other   
Whiteboard:
Found By: Customer Services Priority:
Business Priority: Blocker: ---
Marketing QA Status: --- IT Deployment: ---
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 114921    
Attachments: bug log as requested
Beta4 with nvidia X11 driver
with driver 7676

Description Susan Calvin 2005-09-01 23:03:44 UTC 
I am using the standard kernel in Beta3. Installed the
NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7664-pkg1.run binary driver on a geforce2. Booting into
init 5 system goes unresponsive for about two full minutes. Logged in via
network shows unresponsiveness, intermittently a 'ps aux' shows this:
(lots of udevd)


root      7017  0.0  0.7   4092  1852 pts/2    S    01:57   0:00 bash
root      9221  0.0  0.3   1840   860 ?        S<   01:59   0:00 /sbin/udevd
--daemon --stop-exec-queue
root      9222  0.0  0.3   1840   860 ?        S<   01:59   0:00 /sbin/udevd
--daemon --stop-exec-queue
root      9223  0.0  0.3   1840   860 ?        S<   01:59   0:00 /sbin/udevd
--daemon --stop-exec-queue
root      9224  0.0  0.3   1840   860 ?        S<   01:59   0:00 /sbin/udevd
--daemon --stop-exec-queue
root      9225  0.0  0.3   1840   860 ?        S<   01:59   0:00 /sbin/udevd
--daemon --stop-exec-queue
root      9234  0.0  0.2   2752   760 ?        Ss   01:59   0:00 /opt/kde3/bin/kdm
root      9240 98.9  4.1  14936 10652 tty7     Ss+  01:59   0:45
/usr/X11R6/bin/X -br -nolisten tcp :0 vt7 -auth
/var/lib/xdm/authdir/authfiles/A:0-unYGUX
root      9243  0.0  0.3   1840   860 ?        S<   01:59   0:00 /sbin/udevd
--daemon --stop-exec-queue
root      9244  0.0  0.3   1840   860 ?        S<   01:59   0:00 /sbin/udevd
--daemon --stop-exec-queue
root      9245  0.0  0.3   1840   860 ?        S<   01:59   0:00 /sbin/udevd
--daemon --stop-exec-queue
root      9246  0.0  0.3   1840   860 ?        S<   01:59   0:00 /sbin/udevd
--daemon --stop-exec-queue
root      9247  0.0  0.3   1840   860 ?        S<   01:59   0:00 /sbin/udevd
--daemon --stop-exec-queue
root      9250  0.0  0.3   1840   860 ?        S<   01:59   0:00 /sbin/udevd
--daemon --stop-exec-queue
root      9251  0.0  0.3   1840   860 ?        S<   01:59   0:00 /sbin/udevd
--daemon --stop-exec-queue
root      9252  0.0  0.3   1840   860 ?        S<   01:59   0:00 /sbin/udevd
--daemon --stop-exec-queue
root      9253  0.0  0.3   1840   860 ?        S<   01:59   0:00 /sbin/udevd
--daemon --stop-exec-queue
root      9254  0.0  0.3   1840   860 ?        S<   01:59   0:00 /sbin/udevd
--daemon --stop-exec-queue
root      9255  0.0  0.3   1840   860 ?        S<   01:59   0:00 /sbin/udevd
--daemon --stop-exec-queue
root      9256  0.0  0.3   1840   860 ?        S<   01:59   0:00 /sbin/udevd
--daemon --stop-exec-queue
root      9259  0.0  0.2   1720   596 ?        Ss   01:59   0:00 /sbin/syslogd
-a /var/lib/dhcp/dev/log -a /var/lib/named/dev/log -a /var/lib/ntp/dev/log
root      9260  0.0  0.3   2752   844 ?        S    01:59   0:00 -:0
root      9268  0.0  0.2   1624   604 ?        Ss   01:59   0:00 /sbin/klogd -c
1 -2 -x
root      9285  0.0  0.3   1840   860 ?        S<   01:59   0:00 /sbin/udevd
--daemon --stop-exec-queue
root      9286  0.0  0.3   1840   860 ?        S<   01:59   0:00 /sbin/udevd
--daemon --stop-exec-queue
root      9287  0.0  0.3   1840   860 ?        S<   01:59   0:00 /sbin/udevd
--daemon --stop-exec-queue
root      9288  0.0  0.3   1840   860 ?        S<   01:59   0:00 /sbin/udevd
--daemon --stop-exec-queue
root      9294  0.0  0.3   1840   860 ?        S<   01:59   0:00 /sbin/udevd
--daemon --stop-exec-queue
root      9319  0.0  0.3   2716   812 pts/2    R+   01:59   0:00 ps aux
root      9320  0.0  0.2   2616   544 pts/2    S+   01:59   0:00 cat

When I choose the 'nv' driver, system boots into init5 without delay.
Something is fishy about the binary drivers. Never had problems with them on the
same machine (using a previous suse distro and/or vanilla kernels).
Comment 1 Susan Calvin 2005-09-01 23:05:18 UTC 
Sometimes when I kill the X session with the nvidia drivers, the system ends up
in a garbled colourful state at the console. Network access is possible, X will
come up again, but the console is a mess, which only a reboot will fix.
Comment 2 Susan Calvin 2005-09-02 11:53:27 UTC 
Bug 114921 is same/similar to this one.
Comment 3 Stefan Dirsch 2005-09-02 12:23:15 UTC 
Please attach the result of nvidia-bug-report.sh.
Comment 4 Susan Calvin 2005-09-02 23:53:57 UTC 
Created attachment 48672 [details]
bug log as requested
Comment 5 Stefan Dirsch 2005-09-03 11:37:23 UTC 
Your're using the nv driver and not the nvidia driver. I cannot see anything 
obviously wrong in the config and logfiles WRT a nv driver configuration. 
Anyway, this does not match the bugreport. Pleaes comment.
Comment 6 Susan Calvin 2005-09-05 23:01:07 UTC 
(In reply to comment #5)
> Your're using the nv driver and not the nvidia driver. I cannot see anything 
> obviously wrong in the config and logfiles WRT a nv driver configuration. 
> Anyway, this does not match the bugreport. Pleaes comment. 

Sorry for the confusion, I had already reverted back to the nv driver when I ran
the nvidia-bug-report.sh
I have since updated to beta4 and cannot check again, but I will investigate the
issue on Beta4 now.
Comment 7 Susan Calvin 2005-09-05 23:18:14 UTC 
Created attachment 48860 [details]
Beta4 with nvidia X11 driver

This is the correct version. This time using the standard beta4 kernel.
Comment 8 Stefan Dirsch 2005-09-06 06:54:52 UTC 
Please use the current nvidia driver (simply use the YOU patch for this). 
Neither SUSE nor nVidia will investigate old driver bugs. There's no need to 
use 1.0-7664. Your board is still supported by the current driver (1.0-7676).
Comment 9 Susan Calvin 2005-09-07 21:55:28 UTC 
Created attachment 49124 [details]
with driver 7676
Comment 10 Susan Calvin 2005-09-07 21:58:15 UTC 
The new NVIDIA driver 7676 exhibits the same behaviour as described for the
previous version. Everything eventually works, but there is a looong X startup
delay. And console corruption when X is killed.
Comment 11 Stefan Dirsch 2005-09-18 15:25:47 UTC 
Hmm ... nothing obvious. :-(
Comment 12 stephen melvin 2005-12-17 09:18:15 UTC 
If you have console corruption I suggest opening your xorg config and editing your nvidia device entry.  Add this line:

Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT"

I have had my framebuffer consoles corrupted for years now and this has been the only solution that Ive seen work. Hope it helps!
Comment 13 Stefan Dirsch 2006-03-18 21:36:29 UTC 
Could you test again with latest NVIDIA driver and/or SUSE 10.1 (Beta8 has been released)? Thanks.
Comment 14 Stefan Dirsch 2006-04-18 11:23:17 UTC 
I suggest to give 1.0-8756 a try ...
Comment 15 Stefan Dirsch 2006-05-11 13:07:46 UTC 
> I suggest to give 1.0-8756 a try ...
Any new results?
Comment 16 Stefan Dirsch 2006-05-23 21:13:10 UTC 
I suggest to give the new version 1.0-8762 a try.
Comment 17 Stefan Dirsch 2006-05-30 20:50:06 UTC 
Last update by the reporter 8 months ago. Need to close this one as WONTFIX.