Bug#342817: Apparent hang of X.org with the nv open source driver
On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 08:17 +0200, Brice Goglin wrote:
> reopen 342817 ross@biostat.ucsf.edu
> reassign 342817 xserver-xorg-video-nv
> thank you
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> Ross Boylan wrote:
> > I request that this remain open.
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> Done, and changed the submitter's address to the one above.
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Thank you.
> > I tried several versions of X and they all had the problem.
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> What's the last one you tried? Latest nv driver is xserver-xorg-video-nv
> 2.0.2 currently in unstable.
I don't know.
Is there any indication that upstream thinks they've made changes that
might fix this?
I looked around some for the upstream changelogs in the Debian packages,
but couldn't find them.
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> Upstream released 2.0.96 since then, but I don't think it matters for
> your problem.
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> We have at least one other reported hang on the NV driver
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=370709
> and a couple candidates upstream
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6161
The previous 2 bugs both look different from mine, because they say it
was working and then locked up when they used the scrollbar. I got
instant death.
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3168
> Could they be related to your hang?
Maybe for that one. The initial report at least concerns total
non-operation. The followups seem to be all over the map.
One peculiarity of my experience was that the problem used all CPU in
one case and then very little on a later try. Both conditions required
a reboot, though.
Of course, any of the bugs might have the same underlying cause; the
exact symptoms might vary with the hardware. Too bad both the upstream
bugs remain open.
Ross
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