Re: nvidia-driver rebooting machine on X startup

On Saturday 08 September 2007 00:43:59 Darren Spruell wrote:
On 9/7/07, Mel <fbsd.questions@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Friday 07 September 2007 19:43:03 Darren Spruell wrote:
On 9/6/07, Derek Ragona <derek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
At 03:10 PM 9/6/2007, Darren Spruell wrote:

Wondering if this is a known issue, or if anyone has suggestions to
get it working...?

Running FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p4 SMP i386.

I installed nvidia-driver-100.14.11 from ports (Sep. 5 snapshot),
Linux compatibility enabled. After loading modules 'linux' and
'nvidia', I do:

# X -configure
# X -config /root/xorg.conf.new

At this point the system spontaneously reboots. 'X -configure' runs
fine and produces a configuration without issue, but the reboot
occcurs when launching X. Nothing is output to screen (it flickers
as if starting X), and nothing is written to /var/log/Xorg.0.log. I
do get the same behavior if running 'xorgcfg'.

Card info:

"NV41 [Quadro FX 3450/4000 SDI] rev 162"

nvidia0@pci7:0:0: class=0x030000 card=0x029b10de chip=0x00cd10de
rev=0xa2 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'NVIDIA Corporation'
class = display
subclass = VGA

I've tried an alternate version of the binary driver
(nvidia-driver-96xx) to see if there was any change, and it also
reboots on X startup.


--
Check your AGP settings and consult the readme, chapter 9, for the
latest driver. You should be running the latest driver with your
card.

Make sure you have the correct AGP settings, either letting FreeBSD
do it in the kernel or disable the kernel and let the Nvidia driver
manage it.

So, I'm not having terrific luck with any combination of settings I
try.

The latest FreeBSD driver release from Nvidia is the same as the
version in the ports tree. This is what I've installed.

Attempting the AGPGART route (building the driver with
"WITH_FREEBSD_AGP=yes" and disabling NvAgp support in xorg.conf) still
results in a reboot.

Going the NvAGP route (Building without support for AGPGART, setting
NvAgp to 1 in the xorg.conf, and setting hint.agp.0.disabled=1 in
/boot/device.hints) also results in a reboot when X starts. One thing
I notice here; when I specify hint.agp.0.disabled=1, and check the
output of 'kldstat -v' after booting, I still see several agp drivers
loaded:

$ kldstat -v |grep -i agp
387 pci/agp_ali
388 pci/agp_amd
389 pci/agp_amd64
390 pci/agp_ati
391 pci/agp_i810
392 pci/agp_intel
393 pci/agp_nvidia
394 pci/agp_sis
395 pci/agp_via

Is this a problem?

I suspect a couple of problems with what I'm doing. Number one,
there's several knobs to turn (in the driver, in the OS, etc.) and
it's possible I'm not getting the correct combination. Other thing is,
I've been told by a technician that this is a PCI Express video card,
so would AGP even come into play?

Probably not. I'm seeing the same thing on one machine, no AGP on MB, and
agp kernel modules loaded, but nvidia-driver doesn't care about it.
Let's kill all red herrings:
- Is COMPAT5X in the kernel?

COMPAT5X doesn't show up anywhere in /usr/src/; I do have 'options
COMPAT_FREEBSD5' defined, though (stock SMP kernel).

- Does running `nvidia-xconfig --query-gpu-info' reboot the system?
- If you do not load the nvidia kernel module, but use Xorg's "nv" driver
does this reboot the system?

No, doesn't reboot the system. Output attached below.

With the 'nv' driver, X starts fine. I don't use it because I don't
have success with the two output displays and xinerama window sizing.

nvidia-xconfig --query-gpu-info:

Number of GPUs: 1

GPU #0:
Name : Quadro FX 3450/4000 SDI
PCI BusID : PCI:7:0:0

Number of Display Devices: 2

Display Device 0 (CRT-0):
EDID Name : DELL 2001FP
Minimum HorizSync : 31.000 kHz
Maximum HorizSync : 80.000 kHz
Minimum VertRefresh : 56 Hz
Maximum VertRefresh : 76 Hz
Maximum PixelClock : 162.000 MHz
Maximum Width : 1600 pixels
Maximum Height : 1200 pixels
Preferred Width : 1600 pixels
Preferred Height : 1200 pixels
Preferred VertRefresh : 60 Hz
Physical Width : 410 mm
Physical Height : 310 mm

Display Device 1 (CRT-1):
EDID Name : DELL 2001FP
Minimum HorizSync : 31.000 kHz
Maximum HorizSync : 80.000 kHz
Minimum VertRefresh : 56 Hz
Maximum VertRefresh : 76 Hz
Maximum PixelClock : 162.000 MHz
Maximum Width : 1600 pixels
Maximum Height : 1200 pixels
Preferred Width : 1600 pixels
Preferred Height : 1200 pixels
Preferred VertRefresh : 60 Hz
Physical Width : 410 mm
Physical Height : 310 mm

There's 3 things left I can think of:
- weird module clash
- bug in nvidia-driver (I assume you're running Xorg 7.x)
- driver was not built against running kernel

Using a working Xorg config from a machine with TV-out, I've tried
compensating for your setup. Please try this xorg.conf:

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Dell"
ModelName "2001FP"
HorizSync 31.0 - 80.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 76.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor1"
VendorName "Dell"
ModelName "2001FP"
HorizSync 31.0 - 80.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 76.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "Quadro FX 3450/4000 SDI"
Option "NvAgp" "0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "Quadro FX 3450/4000 SDI"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TwinView" "1"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection


--
Mel
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