I seem to have stumbled on a fairly quick way to generate or reproduce the "NVRM: GPU at 0000:01:00.0 has fallen off the bus."
error on my system. I login to Ubuntu (either 3D/compiz or Ubuntu 2D) and then open a "Gnome Terminal". On my system, this terminal has 50 lines. $ echo $LINES 50 This terminal can be located on either my X screen primary display (external DFP-1) on on my non-primary display (internal LGD, DFP-0). Now, I create some listings usually about 1000 lines or so. $ ls -alt ~ $ ls -alt / $ ls -alt /usr/lib At this point, I have a scrollbar widget that pan back and forth through the listings. If I scroll rapidly back and forth through these listings (by dragging the scroller widget vigorously up and down) in the gnome terminal window for 3 or 4 minutes, I will always get the black out and frozen X session. BTW, I have enabled persistence as recommended elsewhere and I have been using Ubuntu 2D. Still the problem persists on my M6500 laptop with Quadro FX 2800M GPU. Ubuntu 12.04 Linux box 3.2.0-51-generic #77-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jul 24 20:18:19 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux NVIDIA Driver Version: 304.88 [Additional Drivers: version current-updates] Quadro FX 2800M (GPU 0) Two displays: ViewSonic VX2439 Series (DFP-1), LGD (DFP-0) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/882710 Title: [NVIDIA] Monitor(s) black out and session freezes. "NVRM: GPU at 0000:01:00.0 has fallen off the bus." To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/+bug/882710/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
