I've been running Arch linux for a couple of years now without any hiccups. Recently I've had issues with my system locking up.
Issue #1
While enjoying some games at addictinggames.com my display would lock up using some games. The display was replaced by stripes or patterns. The mouse pointer turned into a large square. The sound was continuing but the kernel was frozen. When this happens, I can hear an audible click from inside the computer.
Issue #2
Streaming video from the internet or watching movies from my hard drive also causes a freeze. I have movies on a resierfs partition which is not good, but I get a freeze whether I'm watching from network, hard drvie, or dvd rom.
Issue #3
Whenever I try and do something processor intensive, the display freezes. I'm trying to rip a DVD in DVD:rip and the display again freezes.
I've checked error, kernel, message, syslog, and Xorg logs and can only find this in the error log:
Code:
NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 6, PE0000 1ffc 00ffeded 0000f654 1068ffff 00ed1564
May 12 10:01:01 duckbutter NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 6, PE0000 0200 0101ffff 00000000 0004ffff 00000420
May 12 10:01:01 duckbutter NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 3, C 00000000 SC 00000000 M 00000200 Data 0101ffff
May 12 10:01:01 duckbutter NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 6, PE0000 0200 0101ffff 00000000 00000000 00000000
May 12 10:01:01 duckbutter NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 3, C 00000000 SC 00000000 M 00000200 Data 0101ffff
May 12 10:01:01 duckbutter NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 6, PE0000 0200 0101ffff 00000000 00000000 00000000
May 12 10:01:01 duckbutter NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 3, C 00000000 SC 00000000 M 00000200 Data 0101ffff
May 12 10:01:01 duckbutter NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 3, C 00000000 SC 00000000 M 00000200 Data 01017c00
May 12 10:01:01 duckbutter NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 3, C 00000000 SC 00000000 M 00000200 Data 01010000
May 12 10:01:01 duckbutter NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 3, C 00000000 SC 00000000 M 00000200 Data 01010201
May 12 10:01:01 duckbutter NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 3, C 00000000 SC 00000000 M 00000200 Data 01010201
May 12 10:01:01 duckbutter NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 3, C 00000000 SC 00000000 M 00000200 Data 01010201
May 12 10:01:01 duckbutter NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 3, C 00000000 SC 00000000 M 00000200 Data 01010000
May 12 10:01:01 duckbutter NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 3, C 00000000 SC 00000000 M 00000200 Data 01010000
May 12 10:01:01 duckbutter NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 3, C 00000000 SC 00000000 M 00000200 Data 01010000
May 12 10:01:01 duckbutter NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 3, C 00000000 SC 00000000 M 00000200 Data 01010201
My guess is that my graphics card is going bad. Output from lspci is:
Code:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV36.1 [GeForce FX 5700 Ultra] (rev a1)
Is there anything else I can do to check if this is a software/OS issue? Thanks in advance for any insights!