[opensuse] nvidia GF 7300 LE and opensuse 10.3

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Guillermo Ballester Valor

14 Oct 2007 14 Oct '07

19:00

Hello, This is a continuation of a recent thread about kmail blocking/freezing the system. See thread http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2007-10/msg01020.html My hardware Motherboard: Asus A8n32-SLI DELUXE AMD Athlon 64 DualCore 4500+. 2 Gb RAM Graphic Card: GeForce 7300 LE. 2 Sata drivers 1 IDE DVD RW openSUSE 10.4 x86_64 (nvidia driver) All begun after update from 10.2 to 10.3 As it has said, kmail is not the culprit because we have system freezes without kmail. I'm suspecting something related with graphic card, nvidia kernel module or X system. It seems that graphic cards using GForce 7300 LE chip can use system memory as cache, having them only 128 MB can use up to 512MB. And this is the problem (I think) : When system is overloaded and the requirements of X system are high, something happens that freezes the system. A cache corruption? , graphic card invading other resources memory?. The problem here is that we have no log in any file about the problem. The system hangs and we have to reset it manually. A curiosity is that sometimes only hangs part of X, because the mouse and all processes managed by cron still continue. Any other user suffering of this problem?. Any light in this. I will change my graphic card if I can't find a solution. It didn't happen with opensuse 10.2. Regards, Guillermo -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

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Clive

14 Oct 14 Oct

22:23

Hi Guillermo, On Sunday 14 October 2007 20:00:36 Guillermo Ballester Valor wrote:

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Hello,

This is a continuation of a recent thread about kmail blocking/freezing the system. See thread

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2007-10/msg01020.html

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The problem here is that we have no log in any file about the problem. The system hangs and we have to reset it manually. A curiosity is that sometimes only hangs part of X, because the mouse and all processes managed by cron still continue.

Any other user suffering of this problem?. Any light in this. I will change my graphic card if I can't find a solution. It didn't happen with opensuse 10.2.

Regards,

Guillermo

It was me who posted this and I am still having the lockups. I am also running the same graphics card as you the GForce 7300 LE PCIE with 256MB ram. I am still looking for solutions. I updated the cards drivers from NVidia and still suffering the lockups. I am going to try other drivers and see if that makes any difference. Will let you know how things go. One thing I have noticed. If I leave the PC running over night just polling mail it comes back alive as soon as I touch the keyboard or mouse. Then KMail and other apps start to slow down until nothing will work and I have to reset to bring the PC back. -- Kindest regards, Clive. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/c.rogers/ Fighting for darker skies. From 52:26ºN 01:27ºW (Coventry, UK) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Patrick Shanahan

23:07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 * Clive [10-14-07 18:32]:

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It was me who posted this and I am still having the lockups. I am also running the same graphics card as you the GForce 7300 LE PCIE with 256MB ram. I am still looking for solutions.

I updated the cards drivers from NVidia and still suffering the lockups. I am going to try other drivers and see if that makes any difference. Will let you know how things go.

Suffered the same problem with lockups and 100.14.19 (also w/14.11). Went back to 1.0-9762 and no problems. Can make the NVIDIA file available, if you want (x86_64). - -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn4472 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHEqE8ClSjbQz1U5oRAof0AKCjN9KfSlbhB0gPofvXczIczxFWSACfRMfy 4zClQ1ewFPEGinC0SdkCZi4= =EZdt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Clive

23:17

Hi Patrick, On Monday 15 October 2007 00:07:41 Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Clive [10-14-07 18:32]: <snip>

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I updated the cards drivers from NVidia and still suffering the lockups. I am going to try other drivers and see if that makes any difference. Will let you know how things go.

Suffered the same problem with lockups and 100.14.19 (also w/14.11). Went back to 1.0-9762 and no problems. Can make the NVIDIA file available, if you want (x86_64).

-- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org

Yes please Patrick. I would like to give that a go. I have just altered the bios a little. Turned off the On chip frame buffer and turned on the background scrub (something to do with the memory but not sure but going to give it a try anyway) -- Kindest regards, Clive. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/c.rogers/ Fighting for darker skies. From 52:26ºN 01:27ºW (Coventry, UK) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Patrick Shanahan

23:23

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 * Clive [10-14-07 19:19]:

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On Monday 15 October 2007 00:07:41 Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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Suffered the same problem with lockups and 100.14.19 (also w/14.11). Went back to 1.0-9762 and no problems. Can make the NVIDIA file available, if you want (x86_64).

Yes please Patrick. I would like to give that a go.

http://wahoo.no-ip.org/~pat/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-9762-pkg2.run - -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn4472 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHEqT2ClSjbQz1U5oRAg2iAJ9IOTBQpvS1KbLi1IoTTODJjvWqoACfVB8Y 7YdM2WuAyskq9HItjS5owg4= =D8w0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Rajko M.

15 Oct 15 Oct

02:17

On Sunday 14 October 2007 06:23:35 pm Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Clive [10-14-07 19:19]:

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On Monday 15 October 2007 00:07:41 Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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Suffered the same problem with lockups and 100.14.19 (also w/14.11). Went back to 1.0-9762 and no problems. Can make the NVIDIA file available, if you want (x86_64).

Yes please Patrick. I would like to give that a go.

http://wahoo.no-ip.org/~pat/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-9762-pkg2.run

Or ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/1.0-9762/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-9762-pkg2.run Let we see. I have no KMail as a target for a problems with graphic (nvidia FX 5200), but restarting Xorg brings hard lock. Maybe that was the problem with sax2, and few xorg.conf files I tried. First time it runs, but nvidia driver leaves mess and when it attempts to start again computer locks hard. Connection attempt from other computer via ssh doesn't work, though ping has response. -- Regards, Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Rajko M.

03:54

On Sunday 14 October 2007 09:17:07 pm Rajko M. wrote:

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On Sunday 14 October 2007 06:23:35 pm Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Clive [10-14-07 19:19]:

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On Monday 15 October 2007 00:07:41 Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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Suffered the same problem with lockups and 100.14.19 (also w/14.11). Went back to 1.0-9762 and no problems. Can make the NVIDIA file available, if you want (x86_64).

Yes please Patrick. I would like to give that a go.

http://wahoo.no-ip.org/~pat/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-9762-pkg2.run

Or

ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/1.0-9762/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64 -1.0-9762-pkg2.run

Let we see. I have no KMail as a target for a problems with graphic (nvidia FX 5200), but restarting Xorg brings hard lock.

Maybe that was the problem with sax2, and few xorg.conf files I tried. First time it runs, but nvidia driver leaves mess and when it attempts to start again computer locks hard. Connection attempt from other computer via ssh doesn't work, though ping has response.

"New" driver does the same. SaX2 configuration is done, using: sax2 -s to use existing xorg.conf otherwise it can't see the second screen, but test fails in hardlock. It must be something else. The xorg.conf worked fine in 10.2. -- Regards, Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Guillermo Ballester Valor

13:30

El Sunday 14 October 2007 23:23:35 Patrick Shanahan escribió:

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* Clive [10-14-07 19:19]:

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On Monday 15 October 2007 00:07:41 Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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Suffered the same problem with lockups and 100.14.19 (also w/14.11). Went back to 1.0-9762 and no problems. Can make the NVIDIA file available, if you want (x86_64).

Yes please Patrick. I would like to give that a go.

http://wahoo.no-ip.org/~pat/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-9762-pkg2.run

Thanks Patrick!. Before to try, do you know if it is necessary a compilation of module. If we downgrade to that module, do we need a recompilation every kernel upgrade?. Clive, have you seen any result ? Because my target is a production machine, I would not to make a bad movement ;-) . I read (and suffered) terrorific histories about bad configured X. Thanks, Guillermo

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-- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org

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Bob Ewart

13:54

Guillermo Ballester Valor wrote:

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El Sunday 14 October 2007 23:23:35 Patrick Shanahan escribió:

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* Clive [10-14-07 19:19]:

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On Monday 15 October 2007 00:07:41 Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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Suffered the same problem with lockups and 100.14.19 (also w/14.11). Went back to 1.0-9762 and no problems. Can make the NVIDIA file available, if you want (x86_64). Yes please Patrick. I would like to give that a go. http://wahoo.no-ip.org/~pat/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-9762-pkg2.run

Thanks Patrick!.

Before to try, do you know if it is necessary a compilation of module. If we downgrade to that module, do we need a recompilation every kernel upgrade?.

Clive, have you seen any result ? Because my target is a production machine, I would not to make a bad movement ;-) . I read (and suffered) terrorific histories about bad configured X.

Thanks,

Guillermo

If you install from that link you will need to do a recompilation every kernel upgrade. BTW I'm having the same problem with an ASUS EN7300GS card. -- Bob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Guillermo Ballester Valor

14:04

El Monday 15 October 2007 13:54:39 Bob Ewart escribió:

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Guillermo Ballester Valor wrote:

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El Sunday 14 October 2007 23:23:35 Patrick Shanahan escribió:

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* Clive [10-14-07 19:19]:

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On Monday 15 October 2007 00:07:41 Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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Suffered the same problem with lockups and 100.14.19 (also w/14.11). Went back to 1.0-9762 and no problems. Can make the NVIDIA file available, if you want (x86_64).

Yes please Patrick. I would like to give that a go.

http://wahoo.no-ip.org/~pat/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-9762-pkg2.run

Thanks Patrick!.

Before to try, do you know if it is necessary a compilation of module. If we downgrade to that module, do we need a recompilation every kernel upgrade?.

Clive, have you seen any result ? Because my target is a production machine, I would not to make a bad movement ;-) . I read (and suffered) terrorific histories about bad configured X.

Thanks,

Guillermo

If you install from that link you will need to do a recompilation every kernel upgrade.

BTW I'm having the same problem with an ASUS EN7300GS card.

Bob, thanks for the info. BTW, I have an ASUS EN7300TC512 card. Grrr.! . Likely is a better solution to upgrade to a better card. Is somebody at nvidia reading this thread?. Guillermo

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Clive

20:32

Hi Guillermo, On Monday 15 October 2007 14:30:58 Guillermo Ballester Valor wrote:

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http://wahoo.no-ip.org/~pat/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-9762-pkg2.run

Thanks Patrick!.

Before to try, do you know if it is necessary a compilation of module. If we downgrade to that module, do we need a recompilation every kernel upgrade?.

Clive, have you seen any result ? Because my target is a production machine, I would not to make a bad movement ;-) . I read (and suffered) terrorific histories about bad configured X.

I have not tried this yet as I am not sure its the graphics card that is the problem.

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Thanks,

Guillermo

-- Kindest regards, Clive. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/c.rogers/ Fighting for darker skies. From 52:26ºN 01:27ºW (Coventry, UK) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Clive

16 Oct 16 Oct

21:25

Hi,

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http://wahoo.no-ip.org/~pat/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-9762-pkg2.run

<snip> I have now tried this and I got the same problem after a couple of hours. I reinstalled the nVidia files nvidia-gfxG01-kmp-default nvidia-gfx-kmp-default x11-video-nvidiaG01 The last two were auto chosen. I have not had a crash yet (fingers crossed) I have also updated my bios from 0904 to 1005 for the M2V-MX Asus motherboard. -- Kindest regards, Clive. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/c.rogers/ Fighting for darker skies. From 52:26ºN 01:27ºW (Coventry, UK) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Guillermo Ballester Valor

18 Oct 18 Oct

18:21

Hi, Clive, any other lock? I've updated my graphic card to an ASUS fanless 'EN8500GT SILENT'. Up to now, all gone well. I cross my fingers too. Just an hour from the upgrade. With all the work I'm doing now the old 7300 CARD likely would have locked the system. I'll tell you if it is fixed. If yes, the problem is obviously from 7300 chipset and/or driver. Regards. Guillermo El Tuesday 16 October 2007 21:25:53 Clive escribió:

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Hi,

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http://wahoo.no-ip.org/~pat/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-9762-pkg2.run

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I have now tried this and I got the same problem after a couple of hours. I reinstalled the nVidia files nvidia-gfxG01-kmp-default nvidia-gfx-kmp-default x11-video-nvidiaG01

The last two were auto chosen. I have not had a crash yet (fingers crossed)

I have also updated my bios from 0904 to 1005 for the M2V-MX Asus motherboard.

-- Kindest regards,

Clive.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/c.rogers/

Fighting for darker skies. From 52:26ºN 01:27ºW (Coventry, UK)

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Clive Rogers

18:33

Hi, After spending a week messing around trying to stop this computer from locking up every hour or so and not getting anything done I finally decided to do a complete re-install of 10.3 as I could no longer use yast. This time I copied this page after the installation. http://en.opensuse.org/Nvidia This installs the necessary drivers and hopefully it will now be stable enough to use it. I will let you know how it goes over the next couple of days. -- Clive http://homepage.ntlworld.com/c.rogers/ Fighting for darker skies. From 52:26ºN 01:27ºW (Coventry, UK) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

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