[1.0-9639] nvidia.ko oopses when starting X

[loswillios]

Hi,

I have a nVidia Corporation NV20 [GeForce3 Ti 200] card under Xubuntu 7.10 with kernel-2.6.22-10-generic. I can load nvidia.ko fine, but when I try to startx, it oopses:

[  235.292000] NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel Module  1.0-9639  Mon Apr 1                                                                             6 20:20:06 PDT 2007
[  474.960000] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual                                                                              address 00000104
[  474.960000]  printing eip:
[  474.960000] dd2ac9a6
[  474.960000] *pde = 00000000
[  474.960000] Oops: 0000 [#1]
[  474.960000] SMP
[  474.960000] Modules linked in: nvidia(P) capability ppdev cpufreq_conservativ                                                                             e cpufreq_ondemand cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_stats freq_table cpufreq_powersave                                                                              button ac sbs video container dock battery ipv6 lp fuse snd_via82xx gameport snd                                                                             _ac97_codec ac97_bus snd_mpu401_uart snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm snd_page_alloc snd_mixe                                                                             r_oss snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss usbhid hid snd_seq_midi snd_rawmidi snd_seq_midi                                                                             _event usblp snd_seq snd_timer snd_seq_device serio_raw snd pcspkr soundcore psm                                                                             ouse i2c_viapro via686a i2c_isa i2c_core parport_pc parport via_agp shpchp pci_h                                                                             otplug agpgart af_packet evdev ext3 jbd mbcache ide_cd cdrom ide_disk 8139cp 813                                                                             9too mii uhci_hcd usbcore via82cxxx ide_core ata_generic libata scsi_mod thermal                                                                              processor fan apparmor commoncap aamatch_pcre
[  474.960000] CPU:    0
[  474.960000] EIP:    0060:[<dd2ac9a6>]    Tainted: P       VLI
[  474.960000] EFLAGS: 00013283   (2.6.22-10-generic #1)
[  474.960000] EIP is at _nv007730rm+0x126/0x198 [nvidia]
[  474.960000] eax: d1bb5000   ebx: ca344000   ecx: 00000011   edx: d5f47000
[  474.960000] esi: 00000000   edi: 00000000   ebp: d5f55a50   esp: d5f55a08
[  474.960000] ds: 007b   es: 007b   fs: 00d8  gs: 0033  ss: 0068
[  474.960000] Process Xorg (pid: 5437, ti=d5f54000 task=d3dad9a0 task.ti=d5f540                                                                             00)
[  474.960000] Stack: d1bb5000 d5f47000 00000000 00000000 00000000 0000016b 0000                                                                             0001 ca3441f8
[  474.960000]        ca344000 ca344000 d5f55b80 dd2836b7 d1bb5000 d5f47000 ca34                                                                             4000 00000000
[  474.960000]        d5f47000 00000000 d5f55ab0 dd2837b9 d1bb5000 ca344000 0000                                                                             0000 dd283403
[  474.960000] Call Trace:
[  474.960000]  [<dd2836b7>] _nv000748rm+0x283/0x52c [nvidia]
[  474.960000]  [<dd2837b9>] _nv000748rm+0x385/0x52c [nvidia]
[  474.960000]  [<dd283403>] _nv000576rm+0x20b/0x23c [nvidia]
[  474.960000]  [<dd283a5c>] _nv000614rm+0xfc/0x12c [nvidia]
[  474.960000]  [<dd283a7f>] _nv000614rm+0x11f/0x12c [nvidia]
[  474.960000]  [<dd283c42>] _nv000629rm+0xe6/0x174 [nvidia]
[  474.960000]  [<c0121900>] cpu_attach_domain+0x80/0xd0
[  474.960000]  [<c0124b04>] scheduler_tick+0x194/0x1c0
[  474.960000]  [<c0140d56>] getnstimeofday+0x36/0xd0
[  474.960000]  [<c010a446>] pit_next_event+0x36/0x50
[  474.960000]  [<c0143028>] clockevents_program_event+0x88/0x100
[  474.960000]  [<c0144274>] tick_program_event+0x44/0x70
[  474.960000]  [<dd29755f>] _nv004458rm+0xdf/0xe8 [nvidia]
[  474.960000]  [<dd296a9b>] _nv000726rm+0x4b/0x140 [nvidia]
[  474.960000]  [<dd296aa8>] _nv000726rm+0x58/0x140 [nvidia]
[  474.960000]  [<dd1bdd3d>] _nv002001rm+0x219/0x254 [nvidia]
[  474.960000]  [<dd1be79b>] _nv002008rm+0x12f/0x360 [nvidia]
[  474.960000]  [<dd1be7e1>] _nv002008rm+0x175/0x360 [nvidia]
[  474.960000]  [<dd1c3165>] rm_init_adapter+0x59/0x84 [nvidia]
[  474.960000]  [<dd43fee2>] nv_kern_open+0x20a/0x2ac [nvidia]
[  474.960000]  [<dd43fcd8>] nv_kern_open+0x0/0x2ac [nvidia]
[  474.960000]  [<c0183216>] chrdev_open+0xa6/0x190
[  474.960000]  [<c0183170>] chrdev_open+0x0/0x190
[  474.960000]  [<c017eaa8>] __dentry_open+0xb8/0x1c0
[  474.960000]  [<c017ec65>] nameidata_to_filp+0x35/0x40
[  474.960000]  [<c017ecc0>] do_filp_open+0x50/0x60
[  474.960000]  [<c017f135>] sys_chown+0x45/0x60
[  474.960000]  [<c017ed1e>] do_sys_open+0x4e/0xf0
[  474.960000]  [<c017edfc>] sys_open+0x1c/0x20
[  474.960000]  [<c01041d2>] sysenter_past_esp+0x6b/0xa9
[  474.960000]  =======================
[  474.960000] Code: 26 00 00 00 00 31 ff 83 c4 fc 6a 01 68 6b 01 00 00 53 8b 43                                                                              74 ff d0 83 c4 10 83 c4 f4 8b 45 f4 50 57 56 8b 55 f8 52 8b 45 08 50 <8b> 86 04                                                                              01 00 00 ff d0 83 c4 20 83 c4 f4 56 8b 86 b0 00 00 00
[  474.960000] EIP: [<dd2ac9a6>] _nv007730rm+0x126/0x198 [nvidia] SS:ESP 0068:d5                                                                             f55a08

~# modprobe -v nvidia
install /sbin/lrm-video nvidia
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.22-10-generic/volatile/nvidia.ko

[  209.524000] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
[  209.800000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11
[  209.800000] PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
[  209.800000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
[  209.804000] NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel Module  1.0-9639  Mon Apr 16 20:20:06 PDT 2007

I can't run nvidia-bug-report.sh after I started X cause it hangs during "cat /proc/driver/nvidia/cards/0" so I have attached the logs without X being started.

[ninoaderri]

Same problem with exactly the same graphic card.

[loswillios]

I don't think we're getting any help from nvidia... I'm trying nouveau the next time I get my hands on the box.

[AaronP]

Does this problem reproduce with 96.43.05?

[ninoaderri]

I don't know... I'm using the default package 1.0-9639 from Ubuntu 7.10, and in fact, these drivers haven always been buggy. The legacy drivers work, but with very bad performances. I think it is a problem which concerns only the GeForce 3 TI 200.

[ninoaderri]

When I say "these drivers", I mean the non-legacy ones.

[loswillios]

Originally Posted by AaronP

Does this problem reproduce with 96.43.05?

Thanks for your answer. I will post the results after the next weekend.