X freezes with nvidia original driver after 5-30 seconds of USB mouse movement (not touchpad movement!) when used on kernel >2.6.9. I tried differrent versions of gentoo-sources up to 2.6.12-r3 and nvidia-kernel 1.0-6629 and 7664. There is no problem when the USB mouse is plugged into another USB port (on another USB bus!), but it freezed later as well - maybe a conflict with another device (eg. the sk-98/skge network-driver). See details. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot kernel >2.6.9 2. start X-server with nvidia driver 3. move a USB mouse (connected on a bus sharing the same IRQ with VGA) for 5-30 seconds Actual Results: The graphics and keyboard freezes, the cursor can be moved further with PS/2 touchpad and the system can be switched off with the power button (acpid background shutdown). Expected Results: Work. The computer is an Asus L5842DF notebook with Athlon64, Nforce3 chipset and GeForce FX Go5650. The /proc/interrupts: CPU0 0: 1076260 XT-PIC timer 1: 3041 XT-PIC i8042 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 5: 2628 XT-PIC ohci_hcd, NVidia nForce3 9: 605 XT-PIC acpi, yenta 10: 4 XT-PIC ehci_hcd, NVidia nForce3 Modem 11: 76279 XT-PIC SysKonnect SK-98xx, ohci_hcd, yenta, ohci1394, nvidia 12: 3470 XT-PIC i8042 14: 6808 XT-PIC ide0 15: 9164 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 80 LOC: 1076009 ERR: 4 MIS: 0 The listing on 2.6.12 (unlike this one from a 2.6.9 kernel) shows additional bus numbers for particular ehci/ohci_hcd IRQs - with IRQ 11 there is bus no. 1 and the "mouse problem" rises only when the mouse is connected to this bus no. 1. I found no regular relevant reports in system log (some iiregular "NVRM: Xid:..." messages). I can send the "lspci -v" or anything else if required.
The "noapic" kernel parameter solved the problem. So it seems to be an APIC problem in kernels >2.6.9.
This is a problem with sk98xx-based network adaptors (a quick Google search shows a tonne of people with sk98xx cards using noapic). I don't think there's a fix for this other than adding 'noapic' and sometimes 'noacpi'/'acpi=off' to the boot options. Kernel team, do you know anything more about this?
You should see if skge exhibits the same problem. We can get support for that driver.
If I remember well, I tried both skge and sk-98 driver. I didn't notice that my older kernel (2.6.9) didn't actually use the APIC (asi the listing above shows), so the problem has nothing to do with krnel versions but only with APIC in general.... or maybe the driver, as you say...
I have exactly the same problem. But I am not using the nvidia driver. Instead, I am using tge vesa driver. The USB mouse stops running after some music is played. I thought it was an alsa problem, but it may be an APIC one. Here is my emerge info: Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/amd64/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 ccache version 2.3 [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.1-r1, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -Os -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -Os -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="fr_FR@euro" LC_ALL="fr_FR@euro" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en fr" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib acpi alsa apm arts audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts cdparanoia cdr crypt cups curl dga dio directfb dv dvd dvdr dvdread eds emacs emboss encode faad fam fbcon ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm ggi gif glut gphoto2 gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal ieee1394 imagemagick imlib innodb jack java jpeg junit kde kdeenablefinal lcms libcaca libg++ libwww lirc lm_sensors lzo lzw lzw-tiff mad matroska mikmod mng motif mp3 mpeg mule mysql nas ncurses neXt nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia odbc ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pcmcia pdflib perl plotutils png portaudio postgres ppds python qt quicktime rdesktop readline real ruby samba scanner sdl slang sndfile speex spell sqlite ssl svg tcltk tcpd tetex theora threads tiff transcode truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales vorbis wmf wxwindows xface xine xml xml2 xmms xosd xpm xprint xv xvid zlib video_cards_nvidia linguas_en linguas_fr userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET
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This has nothing to do with nvidia drivers as the behavior appears with vesa drivers as well... Have you guys experienced the problem using the skge driver or just the sk98?
Closing this bug. We can't address issues with the closed-source nvidia driver, and if this really is reproducable with open-source drivers then you should open an entirely new bug.