Xorg freezes with fx5200

[EcchiM]

Hello,
I've a X-locks-but-mouse-can-be-moved problem. But I don't have any pci_badness-errogs in my syslog, so I'm not sure if it is the same problem.
I'm not sure, but I have the feeling that happens more often if I display bigger elements. For example an big website. If i only use a few terminals nothing happens, but surfing is really problematic. The nv driver works perfectly.
I had the same problem using Arch Linux with Xorg, so I tried debian sarge with Xorg from the unstable tree. But that didn't change anything.

I did a startx -- -logverbose 5 and sleep 5m; nvidia-bug-report.sh and could reproduce it (again..). So here my nvidia-bug-report.log:
http://myloo.de/~marcel/nvidia-bug-report.log

[netllama]

I have a few questions:
0) Did this problem exist with 1.0-7676 as well?
1) What kind of motherboard are you using and which BIOS version?
2) Does this problem exist with color depth of 24 too?

Thanks,
Lonni

[EcchiM]

Hi Lonni!

Originally Posted by netllama

I have a few questions:
0) Did this problem exist with 1.0-7676 as well?

Yeah. I had a 3dProphet2GTS with the legacy driver and it were stable. Then i switched to the fx5200 with the 1.0-7676 and had this problem. I tried the 1.0-8174 as well, but it didn't solve the problem.

Originally Posted by netllama

1) What kind of motherboard are you using and which BIOS version?

I've got an ECS K75SA and my bios is an Amibios v1.21.11.

Originally Posted by netllama

2) Does this problem exist with color depth of 24 too?

It seems to be stable with 24bit (thanks!), but only as long as I don't start glx-things. Starting glxgears crashes Xorg usually after about 30 seconds.
Additionally it's a lot slower with 24bit, I only get 700fps (glxgears - 24bit), but with 16bit I've ~1300 fps. Or is that usual?

Thanks for your help!

Marcel

[netllama]

I'm not able to find your K75SA motherboard on ECS's website. Can you point me to the URL for it?

Thanks,
Lonni

[EcchiM]

Ah, Sorry, a Typo.
It's K7S5a: http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWeb/Downloa...uID=45&LanID=0

But unfortunately I discovered, that 24bit didn't work as well as I thought.
When I'm typing text in licq e.g. I can provoce a crash in less than a minute.
I logged in remotely and tried to find out something. Xorg eats all of my cpu and I could only kill it with -9.
Sometimes there's a line with 1px height through the text (when it crashes) and it doesn't draw the last character in that text right. When it is a 'n' it only draws about 50% of the character (up to down). XOrg doesn't respond, so I couldn't make a screenshot.

Should I try a new Bios version? They have two versions on the website i pointed above. But the bios patch with the higher version number is older. Should i try both of them or do you have something special in mind?

Thanks in advance,

Marcel

[netllama]

I'd certainly suggest updating your BIOS. I would recommend applying the newest BIOS which is compatible with your motherboard.

Thanks,
Lonni

[EcchiM]

I updated my Bios but the problem remains..
When I use windows the system is stable. So I think that's not a problem between my mainboard and my graphic card.

Thanks,
Marcel

[netllama]

Can you try booting with the noapic and/or acpi=off kernel parameters and see if that makes any difference?

Thanks,
Lonni

[EcchiM]

Nope, didn't solve the problem.
Would it help if I provide straces or a gdb-log of X?

[netllama]

Have you tested with more than one window manager?

Can you try disabling AGP (NvAGP=0) and also experimenting with other values of NvAGP, and see if that has any impact?

Thanks,
Lonni

[EcchiM]

Ahh! I think that was it.
I used apggart (because its faster than nvidia-agp on my machine). Now I tried the nvidia-internal-agp and it works. Thanks a lot for your time and effort!

[nc-colin]

Please post exactly what you did to correct the problem.

I have been fighting the same issue for a while with all versions of the driver.

Thanks for your help!