Nvidia GO 7400: Random beryl crash

Question

Since the upgrading to the new NVIDIA drivers I have experienced random crash: when using Beryl X crashes and the computer freezes so I need to manually restart it most of the times (some times I can kill X and resume the system, but most of the times I had to restart it).
I have an NVIDIA GO 7400 which should be supported by the new drivers:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce Go 7400 (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 30a5
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at d1000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
I had similar problems with the 9746 driver, but I solved them with the:
options nvidia NVreg_RegistryDwords="PerfLevelSrc=0x2222"
option in the /etc/modprobe.conf. This is supposed to work with the 7800, but it worked well for me too.
I have already tried every combination of options in the xorg.conf and the option above in the modprobe.conf: it didn't help.
Now I am using the old drivers 9746 drivers which were working well... (still no crashes).
Anyone else experienced these problems with the new drivers?
PS: I am using kdemod with Beryl...
*** EDIT ***
It seems that this is not 9755 drivers related...
Last edited by david_e (2007-04-26 20:12:32)

Answer 1

I am going with XGL since 2 days: no crashes till now... maybe it's an X related problem. Here is my X config. It should be ok...
Section "Module"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "dbe" # <- maybe this one?!?
Load "synaptics"
SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga" # don't initialise the DGA extension
EndSubSection
EndSection
and :
Section "Device"
Identifier "Nvidia"
Option "NoLogo" "true"
VideoRam 262144
Driver "nvidia"
# Tried playing with these:
# Option "TripleBuffer" "true"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "enable"
EndSection
Last edited by david_e (2007-04-30 17:45:01)