[OpenIndiana-discuss] Nvidia errors on 151a4

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sun, 6 May 2012, Bryan Iotti wrote:

> 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.

As a point of reference I have been experiencing such reports on a 
Solaris 10 system (Sun Ultra-40M2) with a Quadro FX 3500 card.  The 
problems were first noticed after updating from Firefox 3 to Firefox 
9.  The system reported a hardware fault against the video card or 
associated slot within hours of installing Firefox 9 (am up to FF 12 
now).  The reports only seem to occur while using Firefox and only 
while entering a page.  Full-screen streaming video and very heavy 
image related work results in no reported issues.  The issues are only 
reported while using Firefox.

There is no visible indication of any issues with the video card since 
output is quite smooth and fast.

I had several long discussions with John Martin at Oracle about this 
but he has not seen the problem.

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

It is not clear since I have the some of the same issues (but without 
the hangs) on my Sun Ultra-40M2 with its Quadro FX 3500 card.

Since I previously replaced the card with similar reported issues (and 
they went away) it is possible that these cards only last a couple of 
years.

Bob
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