[double-SOLVED] nvidia quadro 1000m (GF108GLM) problems

perbh · 12-29-2016, 03:10 PM

Lenovo Thinkpad W520 with above Nvidia graphics.
Running Slackware 14.2 with all patches applied (32-bit).

When starting up I get an inital warning (see below). After a while these warnings increases in frequency and will eventually come up every 5-10 secs. If I run slackware32-14.1 (again with all relevant patches), there are no warnings at all.

In both cases I use the default driver (nouveau).
This is a fairly new occurrence as I use 'dmesg' quite a lot (like whenever I insert a usb/sd device)

Here are the warnings:

Code:

[   87.768954] ACPI Warning: \_SB_.PCI0.PEG_.VID_._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20150930/nsarguments-95)
[   87.769590] ACPI Warning: \_SB_.PCI0.PEG_.VID_._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20150930/nsarguments-95)
[   87.769944] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: suspending console...
[   87.769952] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: suspending display...
[   87.769959] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: evicting buffers...
[   87.769962] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: waiting for kernel channels to go idle...
[   87.770002] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: suspending client object trees...
[   87.770255] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: suspending kernel object tree...
[   88.445602] thinkpad_acpi: EC reports that Thermal Table has changed

I have allready changed my graphics card once (couple of years ago), but everything has been fine until now ... :-(
Does anybody have any idea as to what's happening?

bbuske · 12-29-2016, 05:46 PM

Hello,

not using Slackware myself, but I have stumbled upon something similar not too long ago with another distro. If I remember right, there was a package missing or outdated.

I have also found this: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=170074

Hope this helps. Cheers.

perbh · 12-29-2016, 07:34 PM

Thank you for the link - slightly different scenario, particularly as they use the nvidia-driver - however, the problem may be in the acpi-part of the kernel and the nouveau-messages are just responding to the acpi-message. I will try to chase it down a bit further ... strange though that this is happening very recently, like the 2-3 last days and as far as I can remember, I have not done any updates/patches for at least a week ... I was afraid my graphics card was on the blink again, but seeing 14.1 does not generate any errors, I'll probably be ok.

bbuske · 12-29-2016, 07:44 PM

That's strange indeed.
Did you maybe install some other software, that could have made changes?
As for your graphics chip: as long as you are fine with 14.1 I don't think that would be really an issue.

perbh · 12-29-2016, 08:35 PM

Nah - I'm running pretty much a standard 14.2 with some few additions from 'alien'
(chromium, chromium-pepperflash-plugin, chromium-widevine-plugin, flashplayer-plugin,
libreoffice, libreoffice-dict-en, npapi-vlc, openjre, p7zip, sshfs-fuse, unrar, vlc)

Other than the above - plain vanilla.

bbuske · 12-29-2016, 11:06 PM

Hey,

then you might indeed want to check on that acpi part. Though it's strange that this happened out of nowhere, it is probably worth to have a look here. After all, acpi is known to cause such errors... I lately had issues with it as well, when I switched from the default radeon to the amdgpu driver... :P

perbh · 12-30-2016, 05:59 PM

This is more and more strange! After my initial post, the laptop has been ON the whole time - and no more warnings!! Yesterday, the warnings became more and more frequent, until they took place every 5 secs or so - at which point I booted into 14.1 and did not observe any warning. Then turned the darned thing off, left it off for a couple of hours and then started it up again - and the results were as posted. After that - nothing! I don't mind if things (good or bad) happens as long is there is some logic or consistency in it - but this ... *shaking head* And honest to goodness - nothing has been deleted and/or upgraded in the mean time! Must be the fairies ....

Guess I should mark it as solved.

bbuske · 12-30-2016, 09:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by perbh

This is more and more strange! After my initial post, the laptop has been ON the whole time - and no more warnings!! Yesterday, the warnings became more and more frequent, until they took place every 5 secs or so - at which point I booted into 14.1 and did not observe any warning. Then turned the darned thing off, left it off for a couple of hours and then started it up again - and the results were as posted. After that - nothing! I don't mind if things (good or bad) happens as long is there is some logic or consistency in it - but this ... *shaking head* And honest to goodness - nothing has been deleted and/or upgraded in the mean time! Must be the fairies ....

Guess I should mark it as solved.

heh sometimes computers have their own lives and do what they want.
As long as it works for you, be happy and treat it nice... :P

perbh · 12-31-2016, 11:55 PM

Latest update:
After experiencing yet another bout of the above messages, I seem to have 'solved' the problem - solved inasmuch as I can now make it go away :-)
It has to do with my wireless-usb-mouse (seemingly). If I boot with the mouse powered on - I get the warnings. If the mouse is NOT powered up until after my 'startx' (I always start up in CLI-mode - run-level=3), then I'm OK. Go figger!! Anyways, I'll mark this as 'double-solved :-)

Thanks for yall's input!