System: * dual G4 PowerMac with NVIDIA GeForce2MX video card [32MB video RAM] * Fedora/rawhide: current as of 5Apr07 =========================================================== Typing CTL-ALT-F8 while the GNOME desktop is running borks an NVIDIA GeForce2MX video card, leaving the card in an unrecoverable state. After typing CTL-ALT-F8, the screen looks like the resolution changed from 1600x1024 to 600x480. The mouse no longer works. Switching to any other VT does nothing. Logging in from another machine via ssh shows the system is still alive. The X server is running. Killing off all of the processes associated with the initial login/startx on tty1 does not properly reset the video card. A mixture of readable text and "fuzz" is viable. Ruturning the the original machine, the keyboard still works allowing one to type "reboot". -Joseph
Thanks for the bug report. We have reviewed the information you have provided above, and there is some additional information we require that will be helpful in our diagnosis of this issue. Please attach your X server config file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf) and X server log file (/var/log/Xorg.*.log) to the bug report as individual uncompressed file attachments using the bugzilla file attachment link below. Could you please also try to run without any /etc/X11/xorg.conf whatsoever and let X11 autodetect your display and video card? Attach to this bug /var/log/Xorg.0.log from this attempt as well, please. We will review this issue again once you've had a chance to attach this information. Thanks in advance.
Created attachment 151875 [details] Original xorg.conf
Created attachment 151877 [details] Xorg.0.log
Created attachment 151878 [details] /var/log/messages containing nvidia related kernel soft lockup
Created attachment 151879 [details] Xorg.0.log file: startx w/o xorg.conf
Matej, I have created attachments for the information you requested. In addition I have included /var/log/messages which shows that CTL-ALT-F8 leads to a kernel problem. I am available to conduct additional tests as required. BTW... VT-8 is important to PPC users running MAC-on-Linux. MOL can run within an X-Window or in full console video mode, where VT-8 is used. -Joseph
dmesg blames nvidiafb, and so do I.
The problem persists as of 19-Apr-07 with the current fedora/rawhide system. -Joseph
I don't see a usefbdev option in xorg.conf, and the kernel driver seems unhappy that some evil userspace program has stomped on its hardware... go figure :)
The problem persists as of 17-May-07 with the current fedora/rawhide system. -Joseph
Based on the date this bug was created, it appears to have been reported against rawhide during the development of a Fedora release that is no longer maintained. In order to refocus our efforts as a project we are flagging all of the open bugs for releases which are no longer maintained. If this bug remains in NEEDINFO thirty (30) days from now, we will automatically close it. If you can reproduce this bug in a maintained Fedora version (7, 8, or rawhide), please change this bug to the respective version and change the status to ASSIGNED. (If you're unable to change the bug's version or status, add a comment to the bug and someone will change it for you.) Thanks for your help, and we apologize again that we haven't handled these issues to this point. The process we're following is outlined here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/F9CleanUp We will be following the process here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping to ensure this doesn't happen again.
This bug has been in NEEDINFO for more than 30 days since feedback was first requested. As a result we are closing it. If you can reproduce this bug in the future against a maintained Fedora version please feel free to reopen it against that version. The process we're following is outlined here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/F9CleanUp