Kernel-Oops

[rscharp]

Hi,

I tried the latest 2 drivers 8756 and 8178 on my Dell Inspiron i8000 Laptop. It uses a Geforce2-Go chipset. The resolution is 1600x1200.

The last driver working was 7676 at kernels 2.6.14 and 2.6.15. Now with 2.6.16 I am not able to compile the kernel module. With older Kernels the 7676 driver is working well.

During installation there occurs a warning that the installation expects to see the link /usr/lib/tls/libnvidia-tls.so.1 instead of /usr/lib/libnvidia-tls.so.1. The links refernce the files /usr/lib/tls/libnvidia-tls.so.1.0.8756 and /usr/lib/libnvidia-tls.so.1.0.8756. These two files are not identical. I tried to ignore the error since the rest of installation seems to be successful.

So I continued with loading the nvidia module which was fine. After trying to start X (by running X as root) the display hangs up and I see only a black screen. I am not able to switch back to text mode. The keyboard seems still to work.

After logging in remote I tried to run nvidia-bug-report.sh. But it hung up also so I had to abort it.

When I run dmseg I see the following:

nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel Module  1.0-8756  Wed Mar 29 14:26:26 PST 2006
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel Module  1.0-8756  Wed Mar 29 14:26:26 PST 2006
agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000104
 printing eip:
d1076baa
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#1]
Modules linked in: nvidia lp ipv6 dm_mod rtc eth1394 psmouse parport_pc serio_raw parport yenta_socket snd_maestro3 snd_ac97_codec snd_ac97_bus rsrc_nonstatic pcmcia_core snd_pcm snd_timer snd_page_alloc snd soundcore i2c_core hw_random shpchp pci_hotplug i8xx_tco intel_agp agpgart ext3 jbd mbcache usbhid ide_cd cdrom ide_disk e100 mii ohci1394 ieee1394 uhci_hcd usbcore piix generic ide_core thermal processor fan
CPU:    0
EIP:    0060:[<d1076baa>]    Tainted: P      VLI
EFLAGS: 00013287   (2.6.16-1-686 #1)
EIP is at _nv004158rm+0x7da/0x188c [nvidia]
eax: 00000000   ebx: ca2d2c00   ecx: ce801800   edx: 00000000
esi: 00000000   edi: c95f5c15   ebp: c95f5c2c   esp: c95f5a94
ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
Process Xorg (pid: 7487, threadinfo=c95f4000 task=cf604ab0)
Stack: <0>00000000 00000000 00000004 d1006f2a cfdc5400 ce866800 ce801800 d1006f2a
       ce86681c 0000002e c95f5adc d117cd57 0000000d 00000001 ce801800 cb888400
       cfdc5400 ce866800 cd453400 d117cc90 00000000 00000080 cfc38a00 00000000
Call Trace:
 [<d1006f2a>] _nv002668rm+0x26/0x2c [nvidia]
 [<d1006f2a>] _nv002668rm+0x26/0x2c [nvidia]
 [<d117cd57>] _nv005436rm+0x23/0x28 [nvidia]
 [<d117cc90>] _nv005438rm+0x28/0x44 [nvidia]
 [<d1017a4a>] _nv002534rm+0x1a/0x6c [nvidia]
 [<d117c394>] _nv005205rm+0x8c/0x98 [nvidia]
 [<d117c5ce>] _nv005247rm+0x6a/0x7c [nvidia]
 [<d110db3c>] _nv000419rm+0x24/0x28 [nvidia]
 [<d110db0f>] _nv000457rm+0x1f/0x28 [nvidia]
 [<d110734e>] _nv000417rm+0x4e/0x58 [nvidia]
 [<d117e549>] _nv005236rm+0x51/0x90 [nvidia]
 [<d117e2c1>] _nv005453rm+0x6d/0x78 [nvidia]
 [<d1006f2a>] _nv002668rm+0x26/0x2c [nvidia]
 [<d1006f58>] _nv002662rm+0x28/0x30 [nvidia]
 [<d1074b2d>] _nv004159rm+0x36d/0x12bc [nvidia]
 [<d1016262>] _nv002583rm+0x16/0x2c [nvidia]
 [<d1006da0>] _nv002673rm+0x38/0x50 [nvidia]
 [<d1080a40>] _nv001518rm+0x80/0x2dc [nvidia]
 [<d1080c5c>] _nv001518rm+0x29c/0x2dc [nvidia]
 [<d1124b3d>] _nv006192rm+0xed/0x190 [nvidia]
 [<d1124bd3>] _nv006192rm+0x183/0x190 [nvidia]
 [<d1106080>] _nv006834rm+0x20/0x70 [nvidia]
 [<d117dbfc>] _nv005462rm+0x1c4/0x1e8 [nvidia]
 [<d117dbed>] _nv005462rm+0x1b5/0x1e8 [nvidia]
 [<d117d6ec>] _nv005249rm+0x34/0x7c [nvidia]
 [<d117d768>] _nv005216rm+0x34/0x7c [nvidia]
 [<d117d79b>] _nv005216rm+0x67/0x7c [nvidia]
 [<d0ff362c>] _nv005371rm+0x40/0x48 [nvidia]
 [<d0ff3649>] _nv005356rm+0x15/0x1c [nvidia]
 [<d101924d>] _nv001817rm+0xe1/0x1c8 [nvidia]
 [<d1019259>] _nv001817rm+0xed/0x1c8 [nvidia]
 [<d101cb09>] _nv001788rm+0x91/0xb0 [nvidia]
 [<d101cb1e>] _nv001788rm+0xa6/0xb0 [nvidia]
 [<d1019c76>] _nv001823rm+0x242/0x3d8 [nvidia]
 [<d1019c66>] _nv001823rm+0x232/0x3d8 [nvidia]
 [<d1016406>] _nv002584rm+0x12/0x18 [nvidia]
 [<d101e1fd>] rm_init_adapter+0x59/0x80 [nvidia]
 [<d126b5a6>] nv_kern_open+0x1d3/0x26e [nvidia]
 [<d126c632>] nv_kern_isr+0x0/0x63 [nvidia]
 [<b014d488>] chrdev_open+0xe9/0x100
 [<b014d39f>] chrdev_open+0x0/0x100
 [<b0145d8d>] __dentry_open+0xb5/0x189
 [<b0145f18>] do_filp_open+0x2d/0x35
 [<b01589a1>] dput+0x1b/0x111
 [<b0146000>] do_sys_open+0x40/0xb1
 [<b0146089>] sys_open+0x13/0x17
 [<b0102935>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Code: a4 83 c4 fc 83 c4 f8 53 8b 45 08 50 e8 ec 6e 00 00 50 6a 18 8b 95 a0 fe ff ff 52 8b 42 18 ff d0 89 c6 83 c4 20 83 c4 f8 6a 00 56 <8b> 86 04 01 00 00 ff d0 8b 85 98 fe ff ff c1 e8 04 8a 44 28 ec

When I have a look at Xorg.0.log there seems to be only some minor configuration problems with invalit paths etc. So I have attached the xorg.conf to this posting.

Any ideas?

[netllama]

Can you please generate and post an nvidia-bug-report.log against 1.0-8756?

Thanks,
Lonni

[zander]

@rscharp: does this problem still reproduce with 1.0-8762?

[fugro-jason]

I have been fighting most of the day with a similar problem
and then I saw the hint to try the latest latest driver (8762)
This fixed the problem for me

(geforce 6800xt dual opt270)