Currently I’m trying to figure out why my machine keeps spitting out errors, stuttering in games, outright freezing in others.
I regularly update my drivers. Many other forum posts suggest that this is an ongoing problem. From what I’ve read the error messages might not be for the root cause of the stuttering and freezing.
What I’ve learned so far in two games that are particularly problematic:
Minecraft (regular frame drops of one second which totally breaks imersion) does not utilize the P0 powerstate of the card.
Jagged Alliance (random freezes that occur approximately once an hour or every 2 hours) - utilizes the GPU fully and maxes both gpu and cpu (
Stats
-+ssssssssssssssssssyyssss+- OS: Ubuntu 23.04 x86_64
.ossssssssssssssssssdMMMNysssso. Kernel: 6.2.0-39-generic
/ssssssssssshdmmNNmmyNMMMMhssssss/ Uptime: 5 hours, 27 mins
+ssssssssshmydMMMMMMMNddddyssssssss+ Packages: 2667 (dpkg), 18 (flatpak), 39 (snap)
/sssssssshNMMMyhhyyyyhmNMMMNhssssssss/ Shell: bash 5.2.15
.ssssssssdMMMNhsssssssssshNMMMdssssssss. Resolution: 1920x1080
+sssshhhyNMMNyssssssssssssyNMMMysssssss+ DE: GNOME 44.3
ossyNMMMNyMMhsssssssssssssshmmmhssssssso WM: Mutter
ossyNMMMNyMMhsssssssssssssshmmmhssssssso WM Theme: Adwaita
+sssshhhyNMMNyssssssssssssyNMMMysssssss+ Theme: Adwaita [GTK2/3]
.ssssssssdMMMNhsssssssssshNMMMdssssssss. Icons: Yaru [GTK2/3]
/sssssssshNMMMyhhyyyyhdNMMMNhssssssss/ Terminal: gnome-terminal
+sssssssssdmydMMMMMMMMddddyssssssss+ CPU: Intel i9-10920X (24) @ 4.600GHz
/ssssssssssshdmNNNNmyNMMMMhssssss/ GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Lite Hash Rate
.ossssssssssssssssssdMMMNysssso. Memory: 5055MiB / 31764MiB
Errors
[drm:nv_drm_master_set [nvidia_drm]] *ERROR* [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00006500] Failed to grab modeset ownership
2024-01-21T12:47:49.157729+01:00 haui-TowerPC /usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[3254]: (WW) NVIDIA: Failed to bind sideband socket to
2024-01-21T12:47:49.157754+01:00 haui-TowerPC /usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[3254]: (WW) NVIDIA: '/var/run/nvidia-xdriver-dcc219b5' Permission denied
2024-01-22T08:21:21.457799+01:00 haui-TowerPC /usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[2228]: (WW) NVIDIA: Failed to bind sideband socket to
2024-01-22T08:21:21.457851+01:00 haui-TowerPC /usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[2228]: (WW) NVIDIA: '/var/run/nvidia-xdriver-62d1aa2f' Permission denied
2024-01-22T08:30:48.956566+01:00 haui-TowerPC /usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[3704]: (WW) NVIDIA: Failed to bind sideband socket to
2024-01-22T08:30:48.956599+01:00 haui-TowerPC /usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[3704]: (WW) NVIDIA: '/var/run/nvidia-xdriver-bfa4eb19' Permission denied
These are spamming my syslog on a daily basis. No idea if they’re connected. But getting permission denied of a driver sounds interesting.
I don’t have a lot of hope but maybe someone has an idea.
Thanks a lot and have a good day.