[OpenIndiana-discuss] Nvidia errors on 151a4

[Bryan Iotti]

Hi all,

Yesterday I upgraded to 151a4 on my HP xw8200. The machine experienced four
freezes that could only be recovered by powering it off and on again.

Now, fmadm faulty lists nothing. fmdump lists nothing. fmdump -e mentions
issues with ereport.io.pci.fabric and ereport.io.pciex.fabric. These are
scattered errors across the whole period I've had OI installed.

After the upgrade, I received a warning that the nvidia driver did not
support quiesce(), which then went away with the next reboot.

What happens when it freezes: I'm working along maybe doing backups and I
want to check something online. I open Firefox and the system stops
accessing disks, processing data with the cpus and disconnects mouse and
keyboard. The video stays frozen on a still image version of my desktop.

I have tried setting a hardware watchdog, but it never resets.
Upon rebooting, no crash, no dump, nothing. Everything works fine for some
time and then happens again out of the blue.

It's been happening since I bought the computer. I have changed disks, PSU,
checked the fans, swapped the PS2 keyboard and mouse for USB ones...
everything reduced this but it never really went away.

One major difference with 151a4, when I shut down the machine,  my console
shows notices from the nvidia driver encountering errors performing dev-map
and dev-segmap.

This makes me think that the NVidia Quadro Fx 3450 in this machine has
reached the end of its days.

Guys, I need your advice, because I really can't afford to spend money on
it without knowing for sure that it will help. I'd rather find out now that
maybe my logci board isn't well and start saving up for another rig...

Any help is really appreciated!

Bryan