If you switch from your X11 session to a virtual console and your box locks up (by pressing ctrl+alt+f1), try to disable advanced power management (APM) in your BIOS and do not load the APM kernel module on boot. The binary-only module does not seem to like the APM module... X11: 4.3.0-r5 Kernel: 2.6.5-gentoo Driver: 1.0.5336-r1 Board: MSI KT7 Ultra Graphics: GeForce 3 Ti-500 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Leave APM enabled in BIOS and set up system to insert apm kernel module on init. 2. Reboot and start X11 session. 3. Switch to a virtual console (by pressing ctrl+alt+f1) 4. Watch your box freeze. 5. Reboot. 6. Disable APM in BIOS and set up your system to not insert apm kernel module on init. 7. Reboot and start X11 session. 8. Switch to a virtual console (by pressing ctrl+alt+f1) 9. Switch back to your X11 session and rejoice. Actual Results: Switching from X11 to text consoles and back again works now. Expected Results: Freeze. Portage 2.0.50-r3 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040207-r0, 2.6.5-gentoo) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.5-gentoo i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.6 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /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/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://128.213.5.34/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.noved.org/ http://gentoo.noved.org/ http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://gentoo.netnitco.net http://mirror.clarkson.edu/pub/distributions/gentoo/ http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo http://gentoo.ccccom.com http://gentoo.seren.com/gentoo http://mirror.tucdemonic.org/gentoo/ http://ftp.gentoo.skynet.be/pub/gentoo/ http://gentoo.tiscali.nl/gentoo/ http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/ http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ http://gentoo.inode.at/ http://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo/ http://ftp.lug.ro/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow S3TC X X509 Xaw3d aalib aavm alsa amd apache2 apm arts audiofile autofs avi bindist caps cddb cdr crypt cscope cups curl dedicated diet directfb dv dvd encode esd evms2 ext-png ext-zlib faad fbcon ffmpeg fftw flac flash fltk fluidsynth foomaticdb fusion gd gd-external gif glut gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile hbci hyriand imagemagick imlib imlib2 jack jack-caps jack-tmpfs java jikes joystick jpeg kde ladcca lcms libwww lufsusermount mad make-busybox-symlinks matroska md5sum mikmod mmx mng motif moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mpeg mpeg4 mpi nas ncurses nls nocardbus nodod nogcj nptl nvidia nviz objc offensive oggvorbis opengl openssh oss pam parse-clocks pdflib perl physfs pic pie png portaudio psyco pthreads python qt quicktime readline regexp rplay samba sasl sdl slang slp snmp speex spell sse ssl stencil-buffer svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff timidity transcode truetype usb video_cards_nvidia wmf wxwin wxwindows x86 xchattext xfs xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib"
There are many solutions to this problem... 1) APM being disabled (which isnt to nice for shutdown) 2) Not using the tv out features of your card 3) Using a differnt NvAgp option in XF86Config (or xorg.conf) I think this is an upstream problem really... anyone else
Marking upstream as there is little we can do with the proprietary drivers, and its far beyond our control to enfore no APM.
Is this still an issue?
Re-assigning to x11-drivers.
Agreed, there is little we can do to fix this. Potentially multiple causes/solutions. Marking CANTFIX. If you have problems with this, file a bug report with NVIDIA as documented in their readme.
