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Bug 255430 - x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-180.22 causes machine lock on ~amd64
Summary: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-180.22 causes machine lock on ~amd64
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal
Assignee: Ricardo Mendoza (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2009-01-18 20:11 UTC by Roy Marples
Modified: 2009-01-31 10:16 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Attachments
nVidia bug report (hp dv2600) (nvidia-bug-report.log,94.82 KB, text/plain)
2009-01-19 05:59 UTC, Francois Chenier 		Details
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Description Roy Marples 2009-01-18 20:11:27 UTC 
x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-180.22 causes machine lock on ~amd64 when X starts.
Screens goes black, keyboard freezes, cannot ssh onto box. No errors reported in my logs when they aren't zero filled (yay XFS).

Reverting to x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-177.82 is fine, system works again.
Using gentoo-sources-2.6.28
Comment 1 Francois Chenier 2009-01-19 05:59:20 UTC 
Created attachment 178965 [details]
nVidia bug report (hp dv2600)
Comment 2 Francois Chenier 2009-01-19 06:08:59 UTC 
Oops! (To my attachement above ...)

I don't know if it's related or not but I get exactly the same behaviour (no screen, no kdb, dead kernel) after I suspend to RAM. As you, reverting to 177.82 is fine.

Kernel : vanilla-sources-2.6.28
Comment 3 Oskar Ellström 2009-01-26 22:09:46 UTC 
I have something similar. When upgrading to the latest kernel and latest nvidia-drivers and starting X through xdm in boot level, I get a black screen, frozen kbd and no mouse. Oh, and a blinking underline top left. What works for me is a regression to my latest working kernel which is 2.6.25-gentoo-r5 while running latest nvidia-drivers. Been having this problem ever since 2.6.25-gentoo-r5. I've been trying to solve this on my own but to no success. Anyone having a solution?

Running ~amd64
Comment 4 Roy Marples 2009-01-31 10:16:30 UTC 
x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-180.27 fixed this for me