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Bug 147294 - <=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0-8774 oops when NX-Bit is disabled in BIOS
Summary: <=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0-8774 oops when NX-Bit is disabled in BIOS
Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: AMD64 Linux
: High major (vote)
Assignee: X11 External Driver Maintainers
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Reported: 2006-09-12 04:11 UTC by Peter Pfahl
Modified: 2007-03-16 16:59 UTC (History)
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Description Peter Pfahl 2006-09-12 04:11:18 UTC 
Disable NX bit in system BIOS, start X with 'nvidia' driver and run an OpenGL app. glxinfo suffices, it doesn't finish and the system locks up a few seconds later with a kernel oops visible over ssh.
After turning the NX bit support back on, system behaves correctly.

I found a patch regarding this issue here:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=688569 (for 7676)

and here:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=776711 (for 8178)
Comment 1 Daniel Herzog 2006-10-12 02:03:17 UTC 
Could be cause the system is compiled for a system with NX enabled and if you disable it running into trouble isnt a bug.
Comment 2 Peter Pfahl 2006-10-12 04:17:32 UTC 
The system has been built and was running with the NX disabled in BIOS. I turned it on specifically for the nvidia drivers.
Comment 3 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-10-12 13:34:15 UTC 
I just updated 8174, can you test it?
Comment 4 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-10-12 14:32:32 UTC 
Err... 8178, I meant.

Also, is there a patch for 8774 already?
Comment 5 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-03-16 16:59:59 UTC 
No response in a few months and quite a few newer versions available.