Package: nvidia-glx
Version: 295.20-1
Severity: important
Had major problems with 295.20-1 with suspend/shutdown/logout and even stopping
gdm or the X server. After downgrading back to 290.10-1 suspend/resume work
fine again.
I recently (26 Feb) upgraded from 290.10-1 to 295.20-1 on my laptop (HP 8440p
with a NVS 3100M graphics system) using the packages for 295.20-1 from debian
testing. My system is mostly debian stable, but with some packages from debian
testing. On 27 Feb I stopped X, removed the module and then restarted X when I
recalled that I had not done so immediately after the upgrade. Between the
upgrade and loading the new module - the system was able to suspend and resume
properly! Since then I have had multiple problems, all which seem related to
the Nvidia 295.20-1 driver.
1. Suspend to Ram stopped working. Would look like it was about to suspend, but
the system logs did not show a suspend starting and then CPU/fan would keep
running. Only hard power off helped.
2. On some occasions shutdown (from Gnome menu when logged in) worked and on
other cases it failed. When shutdown failed - only hard power off worked.
3. Trying to stop gdm3 caused the same type of freeze.
4. Killing X when started using startx via control-c, caused the same freeze.
Not related to the crash - but this version of the driver does not allow
changing to a Virtual Terminal from the X screen. This made some debugging and
testing more complex than it should be.
In all cases of the crash the laptop power would stay ON, the fan was pushing
warm air out, and the system would not respond to keyboard at all. Network
connections also failed or were dropped - even when the connection was live and
working a few seconds before the change. The system would not respond to ping
anymore either. After every crash and hard-reset, my /home partition was
unclean and in quite a few cases there were messed up files (multiply claimed
blocks, unused inodes, etc.)
On the attempt to suspend - daemon.log shows that NetworkManager received the
request to sleep, but kern.log did not get the messages PM: Syncing
filesystems ... done. or PM: Preparing system for mem sleep which show up as
the suspend process is being done.
Bottom line - at least on my machine the 295.20-1 driver made using the system
quite inconvenient, as suspend/resume was totally non-functional, and even
shutdowns sometimes failed - forcing long file system checks during boots.
Reported upsteam at http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=2532827
also.
This bug report being files after the downgrade back to 290.10-1.
-- Package-specific info:
uname -a:
Linux lxtani.math.technion.ac.il 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Jan 16 16:22:28 UTC
2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux
/proc/version:
Linux version 2.6.32-5-amd64 (Debian 2.6.32-41) (b...@decadent.org.uk) (gcc
version 4.3.5 (Debian 4.3.5-4) ) #1 SMP Mon Jan 16 16:22:28 UTC 2012
/proc/driver/nvidia/version:
NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 290.10 Wed Nov 16 17:39:29 PST
2011
GCC version: gcc version 4.3.5 (Debian 4.3.5-4)
lspci 'VGA compatible controller [0300]':
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation GT218 [NVS 3100M]
[10de:0a6c] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:172b]
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 16
Region 0: Memory at d200 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Region 1: Memory at c000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Region 3: Memory at d000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
Region 5: I/O ports at 5000 [size=128]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at d308 [disabled] [size=512K]
Capabilities: access denied
Kernel driver in use: nvidia
dmesg:
[0.00] No AGP bridge found
[0.00] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
[0.626003] vgaarb: device added:
PCI::01:00.0,decodes=io+mem,owns=io+mem,locks=none
[0.626008] vgaarb: loaded
[0.792098] Linux agpgart interface v0.103
[ 18.218103] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
[ 18.333040] nvidia :01:00.0: PCI INT A - GSI 16 (level, low) - IRQ 16
[ 18.333052] nvidia :01:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 18.333057] vgaarb: device changed decodes:
PCI::01:00.0,olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=io+mem
[ 18.333177] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 290.10 Wed Nov
16 17:39:29 PST 2011
[ 20.820494] hda_intel: Disable MSI for Nvidia chipset
[ 27.855140] Modules linked in: loop(+) firewire_sbp2 snd_hda_codec_idt
snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm
snd_seq_midi snd_rawmidi snd_seq_midi_event ide_cs snd_seq ide_core uvcvideo
videodev v4l1_compat arc4 v4l2_compat_ioctl32 joydev snd_timer ecb
