[ut2004] Crashes in 3270-1 and 3323

[Adar Dembo]

Small update. My modprobe.conf file was empty, so the information from
modprobe.d was never read by modprobe, hence the nvidia options never
got read. Having fixed that, both SBA and FW are now enabled. In
addition, I've removed all of those extra options from my XF86Config
file, narrowing down the list of culprits.

The bad news is that the symptoms are still as I described. I just
opened up UT2004, joined a game of onslaught, and within a minute of
being in-game, my monitor clicked off, the sound finished playing, and I
had nothing. One hard reboot later, I'm typing this e-mail.

It seems that tomorrow will involve going back to 5xxx and/or dropping
to an older kernel.

-Adar

On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 22:14, Adar Dembo wrote:
> Well, I have a small update on the situation.
> 
> For some reason, my card stop enabling Fast Writes and Sideband
> Addressing. I have the options to do so specified in /etc/modutils
> (nvidia-kernel-nkc) and in /etc/modprobe.d (nvidia-kernel-nkc). In both
> cases, I have "options nvidia NVreg_EnableAGPSBA=1 NVreg_EnableAGPFW=1",
> yet a quick "cat /proc/drivers/nvidia/agp/status" shows that both are
> disabled. In the past, this worked, and I haven't touched the driver nor
> have I touched the kernel.
> 
> I've also made the following changes to my X config:
> 
>         Option          "RenderAccel"   "On"
>         Option          "NoLogo"        "On"
>         Option          "HWCursor"      "On"
>         Option          "IgnoreDisplayDevices"  "DFP, TV"
>         Option          "ConnectedMonitor"      "CRT"
> 
> Finally, I am using the logitech_applet written by someone to interact
> with my USB mouse and increase the DPI from 400 to 800.
> 
> The end result is that UT2004 will quite often do one of two things:
> 
> 1) At some point in the game, either when I first load it or when it
> starts rendering the FPS perspective in a map, my monitor will shut off.
> There will be a sound loop for a few seconds, then silence. I have to
> hard reboot my machine.
> 
> 2) If I manage to quit out of UT2004, usually my X session will have
> been shut down, and gdm will bring me back to the login prompt.
> 
> 3) Once, my X session crashed IN-GAME, and everything slowed a bit,
> until my monitor clicked and I was back to the gdm login prompt.
> 
> In all cases, nothing gets written to the logs. And it's getting to the
> point where it's too dangerous to even open UT2004, as it will crash my
> computer. It also seems entirely erratic, but when it happens, it
> continues happening for a while. It's almost as if it's dependent on
> heat, but lmsensors shows my temperature within reasonable limits.
> 
> Any ideas? I'm about ready to drop all the changes I made and go back to
> an older kernel with the 5xxx set of drivers.
> 
> -Adar