Driver 331.20 or 331.38 + CUDA + Base Mosaic = Freeze

Graphics / Linux Linux
1

Hello,

since driver version 331.20, I’m experiencing hard X freezes and Xid errors when running a CUDA (or OpenCL) application when Base Mosaic is activated (2 cards, 3 monitors). Downgrading to 325.15 or disabling Base Mosaic helps. A rather minimal example triggering the errors is to run the “vectorAdd” example from the CUDA 5.5 package.

SSHing into the machine is possible. The system log is spammed with

NVRM: Xid (0000:04:00): 38, 0000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000

The relevant section from my xorg.conf:

Section "Device"
  Identifier              "GeForceSLI"
  Driver                  "nvidia"
  BusID                   "PCI:3:0:0"
  Option                  "UseEdidDpi" "false"
  Option                  "DPI" "96 x 96"
  Option                  "Coolbits" "4"
  Option                  "SLI" "Mosaic"
  Option                  "BaseMosaic" "true"
  Option                  "MetaModes" "GPU-0.DFP-3: 1680x1050+0+0, GPU-0.DFP-0: 1680x1050+1680+0, GPU-1.DFP-0: 1680x1050+3360+0"
EndSection

Further specs:
2x EVGA GeForce 670 GTX
Arch Linux, Kernel 3.12.9
Xorg 1.15.0

Does anyone have similar problems in such a configuration?

2

I experienced the same problem as you did in fedora 20. Mine configuration is GTX590 + dual monitors. GTX590 contains dual GPUs. Disable mosaic do helps.

I guess that 331.x cuda driver is for 6.0. It may have backward compatibility issues.

In any case, I encountered problems when trying to downgrade to 325.15.

3

The latest driver 331.49 has resolved the problem.