From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970
From: bugzilla-daemon-CC+yJ3UmIYqDUpFQwHEjaQ@public.gmane.org
Subject: [Bug 77371] New: [NVA3] gpu lockup unless noaccel=1
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 19:14:13 +0000
Message-ID:
Priority
medium
Bug ID
77371
Assignee
nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org
Summary
[NVA3] gpu lockup unless noaccel=1
QA Contact
xorg-team@lists.x.org
Severity
critical
Classification
Unclassified
OS
Linux (All)
Reporter
jw.hendy@gmail.com
Hardware
x86-64 (AMD64)
Status
NEW
Version
unspecified
Component
Driver/nouveau
Product
xorg
Created attachment 97262 [details]
dmesg after normal startup on Arch x86_64, prior to startx
System details:
$ uname -a
Linux bigBang 3.14.0-4-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Apr 9 21:11:25 CEST 2014 x86_64
GNU/Linux
$ dmesg | grep -i chipset
[ 19.583102] nouveau [ DEVICE][0000:01:00.0] Chipset: GT215 (NVA3)
$ lspci |grep -i vga
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT215GLM [Quadro FX
1800M] (rev a2)
Description:
I can only successfully `startx` if I modprobe nouveau with no acceleration
(`nouveau.noaccel=1` appended to kernel line or `options nouveau noaccel=1` in
/etc/modprobe.d/nouveau.conf).
With noaccel=0 (default), I get a GPU lockup message and borked X session (see
attached photo of screen).
Similar bugs:
- https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33165 (seems most similar)
- https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69488
- https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73373 (?, can startx)
- https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69203 (?, no gpu lockup)
- https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69465 (?, no gpu lockup)
Things tried:
--- firmware: I tried the nouveau-fw packages from Arch Linux's AUR, which
simply packages the firmware instructions here:
http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/VideoAcceleration/. I have diff'ed the
contents of /lib/firmware/nouveau/ and /tmp/nouveau/vuc-* + /tmp/nouveau/nv*,
and they are identical.
>From what I can tell, NVA3 (NV50 Tesla family) shouldn't need 3D Accel firmware
(http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/InstallDRM/, 3D-accel firmware section):
"NV40 - NV50: No firmware needed. The Nouveau driver generates the ctxprogs and
related state internally (commits 48c6dfb8 and 266229a5)."
With firmware in /lib/firmware/nouveau, I've tried with and without
`nouveau.config=NvGrUseFW=1`, though per the Kernel Parameters page
(http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/KernelModuleParameters/), this only seems
relevant for NVC0.
--- Per bug 69488, I tried with `nouveau.rumpm=0` and still get the lockup, not
to mention that report suggests this is fixed in 3.13, and I'm on 3.14