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From: Andrew Lowe <agl@×××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Graphics problem, especially when running Firefox - kde environment
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2022 16:55:22
Message-Id: 788e5a01-ce04-ff12-0120-d67da4d7882b@wht.com.au
1 Dear all,
2 Back story, I'm in Perth Australia, hence summer has just finished.
3 Summer here means long runs of about 40ºC during the day and nights of
4 about 35ºC at midnight.
5
6 12 months ago, I started getting a dialogue popup that said:
7
8 ********
9
10 KWin Window Manager
11 Desktop effects were restarted due to a graphics reset
12
13 ********
14
15 This would pop up, particularly when doing "deep research" with Firefox
16 on Youtube. Firefox would freeze for a few seconds, but the audio would
17 continue, the screen would do a refresh/flash sort of thing and on goes
18 the "research". As the day would progress, and the home office would
19 heat up, 35ºC during the day, these popups would pop up more and more
20 and the machine would nearly become unusable.
21
22 It was also accompanied by the following in dmesg:
23
24 ********
25 ...
26 ...
27 [ 1473.478242] NVRM: GPU at PCI:0000:0a:00:
28 GPU-810c3175-ac6b-0de3-ff85-dce410a501dc
29 [ 1473.478246] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:0a:00): 32, pid=3087, Channel ID
30 00000020 intr0 00040000
31 [ 1473.478530] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:0a:00): 32, pid=3087, Channel ID
32 00000020 intr0 00040000
33 [ 1480.030284] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:0a:00): 32, pid=3087, Channel ID
34 00000020 intr0 00040000
35 [ 1480.030618] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:0a:00): 32, pid=3087, Channel ID
36 00000020 intr0 00040000
37 [ 2093.087760] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:0a:00): 32, pid=3087, Channel ID
38 00000020 intr0 00040000
39 [ 2093.088145] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:0a:00): 32, pid=3087, Channel ID
40 00000020 intr0 00040000
41 [ 2126.588242] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:0a:00): 32, pid=3087, Channel ID
42 00000020 intr0 00040000
43 ...
44 ...
45
46 ********
47
48 This started last summer and then as things cooled down, occurred less
49 and eventually disappeared, winter time. This summer it's back and even
50 worse so I upgraded from an nVidia 1060 to a 3050 - the thinking being
51 the card was over heating. As you guessed the problem is still here.
52
53 I've found the xid errors page on nVidia's site but was wondering if
54 anyone else had come across this error and has any advice?
55
56 Thanks in advance for any thoughts,
57
58 Andrew

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