[OpenIndiana-discuss] Nvidia errors on 151a4

Milan Jurik milan.jurik at xylab.cz
Sun May 6 09:08:20 UTC 2012


Hi Bryan,

Bryan N Iotti píše v ne 06. 05. 2012 v 10:53 +0200:
> Hi Milan,
> 
> thank you for the quick answer.
> 
> I had to install 295.49 following the procedure from 
> http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=12196
> 
> I have a new boot environment with the updated drivers and it would 
> appear that the hard freezes have stopped. However, it is still 
> littering my console with these two messages in repetition:
> 
> May  6 10:50:01 Wraith nvidia: [ID 702911 kern.notice] NOTICE: NVRM: 
> nv_devmap: devmap_devmem_setup() failed (22)
> May  6 10:50:01 Wraith nvidia: [ID 702911 kern.notice] NOTICE: NVRM: 
> nv_segmap: ddi_devmap_segmap() failed (6)
> 
> Can I do anything about that?
> 

debugging on kernel level and trying to find why the calls fail. It can
be problem in the driver or on our side but we have no support from
nvidia here. You can try to ask nvidia also.

> Again, thank you, the driver update apparently solved the issue.
> 

Best regards,

Milan

> Bryan
> 
> 
> On 05/ 6/12 10:26 AM, Milan Jurik wrote:
> > Hi Bryan,
> >
> > I would start with test of other nvidia drivers. Download new 295.49 at
> > first (there are reports that 295.40 was not good). And also some older
> > drivers. You can find them on nvidia.com
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Milan
> >
> > Bryan Iotti píše v ne 06. 05. 2012 v 09:46 +0200:
> >> 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
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