[oi-dev] Nvidia driver and screensaver

[Frank Middleton]

OI 148 is running very nicely on my newly built Supermicro server (H8SGL mobo
in a CSE-743TQ-865B-SQ case, 8 core AMD Opteron, 16GB ECC memory, an
ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 GPU and a 40GB Intel X25-V boot disk.

NVIDIA Driver Version: 260.19.29. Twinview is on.

The only significant problem I'm running into is with the screensaver. After it
powers down the displays, Xorg.log fills up with

(EE) Jan 05 21:51:10 NVIDIA(0): Failed to allocate NVIDIA TV Event Handler
(EE) NVIDIA(0):  *** Aborting ***
(EE) Jan 05 21:51:10 NVIDIA(0): Error recovery failed.
(EE) NVIDIA(0):  *** Aborting ***

at a rate of between 140 and 170 per second for about 3 minutes (20,000
times) then something like

(WW) Jan 04 15:26:30 NVIDIA(0): WAIT (0, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000ac1c, 0x0000ac1c)
(WW) Jan 04 15:26:33 NVIDIA(0): WAIT (0, 7, 0x8000, 0x0000bd08, 0x0000bd08)
(WW) Jan 04 15:26:36 NVIDIA(0): WAIT (0, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000d610, 0x0000d610)

every 3 seconds until gdm is terminated. Is this an upstream bug or something
that should be submitted as an OI bug? Google didn't say anything so I'm guessing
no one else has seen this...

Whoops, it just happened without the screensaver, when doing a cut-and-paste.

It seems to happen every time when the screensaver goes from suspend to
off (which happens to be 3 minutes). It is quite reproducible.

Not sure why, but the screensaver preferences dialog is unbelievably slow.

Here are some excerpts from xorg.log.

(**) NVIDIA(0): Option "TwinView" "True"
(**) NVIDIA(0): Option "MetaModes" "nvidia-auto-select, nvidia-auto-select"
(**) NVIDIA(0): Option "NoTwinViewXineramaInfo" "0"
(**) Jan 04 11:57:54 NVIDIA(0): Enabling RENDER acceleration
(EE) Jan 04 11:57:54 NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the GLX module; please check in your X
(EE) Jan 04 11:57:54 NVIDIA(0):     log file that the GLX module has been loaded in your X
(EE) Jan 04 11:57:54 NVIDIA(0):     server, and that the module is the NVIDIA GLX module.  If
(EE) Jan 04 11:57:54 NVIDIA(0):     you continue to encounter problems, Please try
(EE) Jan 04 11:57:54 NVIDIA(0):     reinstalling the NVIDIA driver.
(II) Jan 04 11:57:56 NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU GeForce GTX 460 (GF104) at PCI:4:0:0 (GPU-0)
(--) Jan 04 11:57:56 NVIDIA(0): Memory: 786432 kBytes
(--) Jan 04 11:57:56 NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 70.04.14.00.01
....
(II) Loading extension NV-GLX
(II) Jan 04 11:57:56 NVIDIA(0): Initialized OpenGL Acceleration
(==) NVIDIA(0): Disabling shared memory pixmaps
(II) Jan 04 11:57:56 NVIDIA(0): Initialized X Rendering Acceleration
(==) NVIDIA(0): Backing store disabled
(==) NVIDIA(0): Silken mouse disabled
(==) NVIDIA(0): DPMS enabled
(II) Loading extension NV-CONTROL
(II) Loading extension XINERAMA
(==) RandR enabled
....
(II) Jan 04 11:57:56 NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 3520 x 1200



Thanks -- Frank