From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1P8jdZ-00009r-2V for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 01:08:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BE052E084F for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 01:08:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-iw0-f181.google.com (mail-iw0-f181.google.com [209.85.214.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0817E0732 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:12:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn39 with SMTP id 39so5978974iwn.40 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:12:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=/eRG+xHxZLjNSXO3sX4cJyEgRbCbzfBzCEeOmPo0ZF4=; b=aRVwUEflmusucG9i3pQyT4qh9TNOLgXPwAjgEOiKZFeoc31JsFzkgj/VGeR+AWXk2y bJ+Bx6H9yNdhS8+d60e9mbwzqNCpEJQ2rc5j1Z29KR5BXD/XdFqcB12kVxZLg3lKdP6k DkrUDPrB0Lc+QvmBBiWMpLrQEzk8DhhKIpECA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=mrMzQYj0/In61eYmaPcxc5lfX0TlU5Pdbd1weRtMeOUNh0BoNHYngirU6OkcxK/Hlt Ox3Z+vXnZTegLaH7XB4TMtQ83tqpdWXHoNkoaLQMju5umpJOokcKUsE3O1JUuekqbbdC +6KUrlOXUb9hGeWKW1AuRlVzKXVVkoSugd5aM= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.42.132.135 with SMTP id d7mr38130ict.240.1287619978644; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:12:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.42.133.1 with HTTP; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:12:58 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:12:58 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nouveau loads but freezes later, nvidia won't load From: Grant To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: f82a3ac2-b9b9-4c7e-be30-989eedac6927 X-Archives-Hash: 918a6d5c6977e28717a6103376f596c0 >>>> I've been using the nouveau video driver for a while, but lately video >>>> has been freezing with X at 100% CPU and the only way out seems to be >>>> ssh'ing in and rebooting. >>> >>> Not that it will help with your bug, but I'm curious to know what video >>> hardware you're using. =A0I had the same problem with my ancient nv34 c= ard, >>> which got fixed a few weeks ago in Linus's git kernel. >> >> I'm not sure of the actual chip, but I get this from lspci -v: >> >> nVidia Corporation C77 [GeForce 8100 / nForce 720a] >> >> It's an onboard chip on my motherboard. =A0Can you tell me in what >> version of the Linux kernel you found the problem to be solved? > > In my particular case it was this commit, but I get the impression that > there > are still unfixed bugs that cause very similar symptoms: > > commit 3ba6462355c1c69dde58739a871d13bbb993e2e3 > Author: Francisco Jerez > Date: =A0 Sat Aug 28 17:56:33 2010 +0200 > > =A0 =A0drm/nouveau: Take fence spinlock before reading the last sequence. > > =A0 =A0It fixes a race between the TTM delayed work queue and the GEM IOC= TLs > =A0 =A0(fdo bug 29583) uncovered by the BKL removal. > > That patch was made on Aug 28, so Linus probably committed it in early > September, maybe 2.6.36-rc3 or thereabouts. > > If you're serious about testing the nouveau driver I suggest you try the > latest nouveau kernel sources from here: > > git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/nouveau/linux-2.6 > > I just pulled the latest changes from that repository, approx 40 changese= ts, > and not one of them applies to my poor old forgotten NV34 chip, so I'm > losing > interest in nouveau at this point. =A0But your hardware is much newer and= it > may > be worth your while to test the latest changes. =A0It's certainly easy to= do. Thanks a lot Walt. - Grant