nvidia error and server stuck

[barbara]

Trying to play a video, my pc (GPU 8500 GT) froze.
So I tried to switch to vt01 with no luck, so I had to reset it.

This is the error in /var/log/messages:

Apr 28 20:38:32 satanasso kernel: NVRM: GPU at 0000:02:00.0 has fallen off the bus.
Apr 28 20:38:32 satanasso kernel: NVRM: GPU at 0000:02:00.0 has fallen off the bus.
Apr 28 20:39:28 satanasso kernel: .
Apr 28 20:39:30 satanasso hald[1742]: 20:39:30.738 [W] hf-devd.c:447: failed to connect to /var/run/devd.pipe: Connection refused

with the last line repeated many times, every 1 ms.


This is the error in /var/log/Xorg.0.log:

[ 75583.255] (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 6, 0x8000, 0x00004cac, 0x0000674c)
[ 75586.025] [mi] EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop.
[ 75590.255] (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (1, 6, 0x8000, 0x00004cac, 0x0000674c)
[ 75593.263] (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 6, 0x8000, 0x00004cac, 0x00000eec)
[ 75600.263] (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (1, 6, 0x8000, 0x00004cac, 0x00000eec)
[ 75600.266] Failed to switch from vt09 to vt01: Invalid argument
[ 75605.270] nvLock: client timed out, taking the lock
[ 75614.275] (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 7, 0x8000, 0x00004cac, 0x00000f44)
[ 75621.275] (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (1, 7, 0x8000, 0x00004cac, 0x00000f44)
[ 75624.276] (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 7, 0x8000, 0x00004cac, 0x00000f9c)
[ 75631.276] (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (1, 7, 0x8000, 0x00004cac, 0x00000f9c)
[ 75634.277] (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 7, 0x8000, 0x00004cac, 0x00000ff4)
[ 75641.395] (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (1, 7, 0x8000, 0x00004cac, 0x00000ff4)

I'm running FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE, with nvidia-driver-295.40.

It seems also that, after upgrading to the last Xorg version available in ports and to a newer nvidia driver version (I don't know which one is causing that) switching to a vt doesn't always work.
Sometimes it works, sometimes the screen remains black and reports "NO SIGNAL".

[barbara]

I just want to add that I never had this kind of problems using 285.05.09 and xorg-server 1.7.7 (now it's 1.10.6).

As the first problem I've described (not the one I'm facing trying to switch to vt0[1-8]) happened when I started to play a video (can't test the same video right now to try to reproduce the problem, I'll do it later) could it has been caused by libvdpau?

[sandipt]

Please see http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=123819

[barbara]

Originally Posted by sandipt

Please see http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=123819

Thanks you, but I have no problem running vdpau applications.
I just had a xorg server crash(?)/hung.
What I wrote was just a dumb hypothesis from me, as it occurred exactly after starting a video file.

What about the error codes I reported?
I used to have problems like that (with similar error codes/msg) many time ago, but I thought they were solved as I'm not facing such problems since years.