8800 series card + X-Plane = NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 30, L1

[rturney]

Since there are no NVRM errors from dmesg, could this new problem be related to some other hardware problem? But, I wasn't having this problem until I installed the 100.14.x drivers.

[alpilotx]

Another idea: how are you temperatures on the graphics card? nvidia-settings shows it. Maybe it is a temperature related problem (as suggested by the phenomenon, that you sometimes can up the rendering settings to may, and only after a while do the weired shapes appear).

[rturney]

Originally Posted by alpilotx

Another idea: how are you temperatures on the graphics card? nvidia-settings shows it. Maybe it is a temperature related problem (as suggested by the phenomenon, that you sometimes can up the rendering settings to may, and only after a while do the weired shapes appear).

Thanks for the suggestion alpilotx. That's what I was wondering when this started happening and I monitored the GPU temp as I pushed the card to the extreme. The temp maxed out at 72C and the temp monitor indicated that slowdown would begin at 101C. The idle temp was 64-66C.

I am curious if nvidia has some test utilities to run on the card.

I am also thinking about reverting back to the old driver even if there were potential lock-ups I could still use X-plane (if I avoided the locations and settings that have been described in this thread).

Maybe I should try a newer kernel with the new drivers.

I have MS FSX but don't like it as well as X-Plane, but if this is a hardware problem, it should show up in Windows also.

[alpilotx]

Hi,

I have another idea for you. I can remember reading obout such problems in the X-plane.org forums from other users. Although, I can't remember exactly what they have written about ... but! Google is our friend (in this case at least)! Try the following search, and it might help you:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&a...rg&btnG=Search

If nothing else helps, I would recommend you to start a new thread (as NVidia tends to skip old/resolved ones!) AND/OR write to the linux-bugs email address (to make sure, they notice your question).

Andras / alpilotx