On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 10:57:42 am Brett Pemberton wrote:
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 2:11 AM, Anthony Shipman <als@iinet.net.au> wrote:
At the same time the nvidia driver has proved to be buggy and has crashed the system several times.
What nvidia driver? What version?
I've been running 280.13, and I have to say I haven't seen a crash due to nvidia in literally years. Perhaps the hardware is to blame?
/ Brett
I've discovered more error messages in /var/log/messages just before the crash Mar 24 03:41:16 newpc kernel: NVRM: Xid (0000:01:00): 13, 0005 00000000 00009297 00001c08 0923e460 00000000 Mar 24 03:41:16 newpc kernel: NVRM: Xid (0000:01:00): 32, Channel ID 00000005 intr 00040000 Mar 24 03:41:16 newpc kernel: NVRM: Xid (0000:01:00): 31, Ch 00000005, engmask 00000101, intr 10000000 and a forum comment A. "Xid" messages indicate that a general GPU error occurred, most often due to the driver misprogramming the GPU or to corruption of the commands sent to the GPU. I suppose this doesn't exonerate the hardware. -- Anthony Shipman Mamas don't let your babies als@iinet.net.au grow up to be outsourced.