Freezing PC with start of X with ATI Rage

From: Tom Vijlbrief <tom.vijlbrief_at_xs4all.nl>
Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 12:34:53 +0100
On Sunday 19 December 2010 09:49:21 Vladislav Movchan wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Vladislav Movchan
>
> <vladislav.movchan_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Christian Gusenbauer <c47g_at_gmx.at>
wrote:
> >> Hi!
> >>
> >> With commit r216333 to pmap.c my PC (i386 32 bit) freezes within a few
> >> seconds when X (with nvidia-driver 256.53) starts. I already recompiled
> >> and reinstalled the nvidia driver, but this didn't change anything. I
> >> also tried the latest nvidia-driver 260.19.29 but without luck, too
> >> :-(.
> >>
> >> By chance I saw a panic message "vm_page_unwire: page 0x... wire count
> >> is zero", but no crash dump was generated.
> >>
> >> Any clues?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Christian.
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> >
> > I can only add "me too" - I am experiencing the same problem with two
> > i386 machines. Both PCs work fine on revision 216332 and hanging on
> > revision 216333 or later.
> > I've tried to use different nvidia-driver versions (195.36.24, 256.53
> > and 260.19.29), tried disabling glx/dri xorg extensions but nothing
> > changed. Freeze happening before the moment when "nvidia logo"
> > appears.
> > Unfortunately I was never able to see panic message or obtain crash dump.
> >
> > If anybody have ideas I can help with testing.
> >
> > First machine:
> > pciconf:
> > vgapci0_at_pci0:1:0:0:     class=0x030000 card=0x04421028 chip=0x0a2910de
> > rev=0xa2 hdr=0x00
> >    vendor     = 'NVIDIA Corporation'
> >    class      = display
> >    subclass   = VGA
> >
> > Xorg log:
> > (--) PCI:*(0:1:0:0) 10de:0a29:1028:0442 nVidia Corporation GT216
> > [GeForce GT 330M] rev 162, Mem _at_ 0xfa000000/16777216,
> > 0xc0000000/268435456, 0xd0000000/33554432, I/O _at_ 0x0000e000/128, BIOS
> > _at_ 0x????????/65536
> >
> > Second one:
> > pciconf:
> > vgapci0_at_pci0:1:0:0:     class=0x030000 card=0x34681458 chip=0x061110de
> > rev=0xa2 hdr=0x00
> >    vendor     = 'NVIDIA Corporation'
> >    device     = 'NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT (G92)'
> >    class      = display
> >    subclass   = VGA
> >
> > Xorg log:
> > (--) PCI:*(0:1:0:0) 10de:0611:1458:3468 nVidia Corporation G92
> > [GeForce 8800 GT] rev 162, Mem _at_ 0xf6000000/16777216,
> > 0xe0000000/268435456, 0xf4000000/33554432, I/O _at_ 0x0000b000/128, BIOS
> > _at_ 0x????????/65536
> >
> > --
> > Have a nice(1) day,
> > Vladislav Movchan
>
> Update to r216555 fixed this problem for me.

I have similar problems on my old Pentium-II with an ATI Rage, but the
actual current still freezes. Stable is fine.
Received on Sat Dec 25 2010 - 11:03:52 UTC

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