[LUGSB] good/stable video for linux?

magrini at optonline.net magrini at optonline.net
Thu May 5 13:21:42 EDT 2005 

you might try an older version of the nvidia driver, many people have been experiencing bugs with the latest release.

-jm

----- Original Message -----
From: Erez Zadok <ezk at cs.sunysb.edu>
Date: Thursday, May 5, 2005 10:03 am
Subject: [LUGSB] good/stable video for linux?

> Can you recommend a good, well-supported AGP, digital video card 
> that's for
> Linux (FC3/RHEL4, 2.6 kernel, xorg-x11-6.8.x)?  I'd like something 
> with at
> least 128MB ram but preferably 256MB.  I don't need "gamers" 
> features but
> don't mind if I have to get extra stuff just so I can have a 
> STABLE machine.
> 
> I've used the Matrox MGA G550 before, and had DPMS problems with 
> it (won't
> turn off my monitor).  This seems to have been a hardware problem 
> on the
> card that some people knew about.
> 
> Now I'm using the nVidia GeForce FX 5200 card, but the driver I 
> have to get
> from nvidia directly and build it (the default 'nv' driver on 
> linux is
> rather poor and won't do more than 800x600).
> 
> Alas, the nvidia driver I download definitely has races and is NOT 
> safeunder SMP: I can hard-lock my system within minutes when I run 
> an SMP
> kernel.  Also, the nvidia driver interacts poorly with VMware 
> (4.x, 5.0
> beta, and 5.0 official): there seems to be some unsafe/unprotected 
> code in
> the nvidia driver which is tickled by vmware (see oops trace 
> below).  If run
> vmware, the nvidia driver will tickle this bug within hours; if I 
> don't run
> vmware, the nvidia driver will take a couple of days before it 
> shows a
> problem.  I've been struggling with this for months now, and have 
> submittedbug reports to both vmware and nvidia (with no results).
> 
> I'm pretty convinced at this point that the bug is with the nvidia 
> driver(see oops trace below), so I'm looking to get a different 
> one.  So I don't
> want an nvidia card.  I've heard that Dell uses Intel's video 
> cards so
> presumably those should be good (dell does thorough testing of 
> their PC
> offering running Linux).
> 
> Thanks,
> Erez.
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> -----------
> Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 4092da40
> printing eip:
> f8e253ff
> *pde = 00000000
> Oops: 0000 [#1]
> Modules linked in: nls_utf8 vmnet(U) vmmon(U) nvidia(U) rivafb 
> vgastate pcspkr md5 ipv6 parport_pc lp parport i2c_dev i2c_core 
> dm_mod button battery ac uhci_hcd ehci_hcd hw_random snd_intel8x0 
> snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_timer 
> snd_page_alloc snd_mpu401_uart snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device snd 
> soundcore e1000 floppy ext3 jbd raid5 xor ata_piix libata aic7xxx 
> sd_mod scsi_mod
> CPU:    0
> EIP:    0060:[<f8e253ff>]    Tainted: P      VLI
> EFLAGS: 00013213   (2.6.9-5.0.5.EL) 
> EIP is at Vmx86COWPageRef+0x13/0x21 [vmmon]
> eax: 0002f8a4   ebx: 00000001   ecx: f3a7b780   edx: 533ac8ac
> esi: 00000000   edi: f3a7b780   ebp: 00000e49   esp: dc99cb20
> ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
> Process vmware-vmx (pid: 13394, threadinfo=dc99c000 task=dee86680)
> Stack: f8e2564c 0000c6b7 ffffffff e33a8080 d6994d00 e383bf80 
> d7f2b580 df625300 
>       f551f480 bfffea40 f8e21ad9 e3cc0000 e33a8080 00000000 
> e3cc0000 bfffea40 
>       f8e26a2f 000007df f5230480 00000000 000007df bfffea40 
> f8e20029 c2e33500 
> Call Trace:
> [<f8e2564c>] Vmx86COWStats+0x36/0x127 [vmmon]
> [<f8e21ad9>] HostIF_VMLock+0x1a/0x26 [vmmon]
> [<f8e26a2f>] Vmx86_GetMemInfoCopy+0xc8/0x159 [vmmon]
> [<f8e20029>] LinuxDriver_Ioctl+0x440/0x8b2 [vmmon]
> [<c024a165>] cfq_set_request+0x33/0x6b
> [<c0240919>] elv_set_request+0xa/0x17
> [<c0242506>] get_request+0x395/0x39f
> [<f932390d>] _nv001783rm+0x1d/0x2c [nvidia]
> [<f932390d>] _nv001783rm+0x1d/0x2c [nvidia]
> [<f9450f14>] _nv004321rm+0x18/0x48 [nvidia]
> [<f932390d>] _nv001783rm+0x1d/0x2c [nvidia]
> [<f932390d>] _nv001783rm+0x1d/0x2c [nvidia]
> [<f932390d>] _nv001783rm+0x1d/0x2c [nvidia]
> [<f9323916>] _nv001783rm+0x26/0x2c [nvidia]
> [<f9323916>] _nv001783rm+0x26/0x2c [nvidia]
> [<f9450f14>] _nv004321rm+0x18/0x48 [nvidia]
> [<f9450668>] _nv004169rm+0x88/0x94 [nvidia]
> [<f932390d>] _nv001783rm+0x1d/0x2c [nvidia]
> [<f932390d>] _nv001783rm+0x1d/0x2c [nvidia]
> [<f9323916>] _nv001783rm+0x26/0x2c [nvidia]
> [<f9323916>] _nv001783rm+0x26/0x2c [nvidia]
> [<f9450f14>] _nv004321rm+0x18/0x48 [nvidia]
> [<f932390d>] _nv001783rm+0x1d/0x2c [nvidia]
> [<f9323916>] _nv001783rm+0x26/0x2c [nvidia]
> [<f932390d>] _nv001783rm+0x1d/0x2c [nvidia]
> [<f9323916>] _nv001783rm+0x26/0x2c [nvidia]
> [<c01bd610>] avc_node_populate+0x23/0x25
> [<c01bd37c>] avc_node_replace+0x28/0x30
> [<c01bead5>] avc_has_perm_noaudit+0x8d/0xda
> [<c01beb5d>] avc_has_perm+0x3b/0x45
> [<c01beb5d>] avc_has_perm+0x3b/0x45
> [<c01c00b3>] inode_has_perm+0x4c/0x54
> [<c01bd610>] avc_node_populate+0x23/0x25
> [<c01bd37c>] avc_node_replace+0x28/0x30
> [<c01bead5>] avc_has_perm_noaudit+0x8d/0xda
> [<c01c2456>] selinux_file_ioctl+0x296/0x2a2
> [<c01beb5d>] avc_has_perm+0x3b/0x45
> [<c01c00b3>] inode_has_perm+0x4c/0x54
> [<c011ba34>] __wake_up_common+0x36/0x51
> [<c0180c99>] inode_update_time+0x95/0x9d
> [<c01704c3>] pipe_writev+0x314/0x320
> [<c01704eb>] pipe_write+0x1c/0x20
> [<c01760ad>] sys_ioctl+0x297/0x336
> [<c0162649>] sys_write+0x5a/0x62
> [<c0301d43>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
> [<c030007b>] interruptible_sleep_on+0x101/0x1d0
> Code: ff ff ff c7 05 e4 82 e3 f8 00 00 00 00 c7 05 e0 82 e3 f8 ff 
> ff ff ff c3 89 c1 31 c0 85 c9 74 18 8b 15 e0 82 e3 f8 83 fa ff 74 
> 0d <03> 44 91 10 8b 14 95 80 82 e3 f8 eb ee c3 55 89 d5 57 89 c7 
> 31 
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