Black screen and strange error on GeForce GT 730M / Thinkpad T440p

Wed Jan 29 15:51:03 UTC 2014

On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 01:03:51 +0100
"Christopher J. Ruwe" <cjr at cruwe.de> wrote:

> I have got a new Thinkpad T440p with dual Intel / Nvidia graphics. As
> Intel Haswell is of now unspupported I had high hopes for the nvidia
> GPU. However, with x11/nvidia-driver I get a black screen and
> following error message on dmesg:
> 
> nvidia0: <GeForce GT 730M> on vgapci0
> vgapci0: child nvidia0 requested pci_enable_io
> vgapci0: child nvidia0 requested pci_enable_io
> ACPI Warning: \134_SB_.PCI0.PEG_.VID_._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch
> - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20130823/nsarguments-97)
> ACPI Warning: \134_SB_.PCI0.PEG_.VID_._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch
> - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20130823/nsarguments-97)
> ACPI Warning: \134_SB_.PCI0.PEG_.VID_._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch
> - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20130823/nsarguments-97)
> ACPI Warning: \134_SB_.PCI0.PEG_.VID_._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch
> - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20130823/nsarguments-97)
> ACPI Warning: \134_SB_.PCI0.PEG_.VID_._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch
> - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20130823/nsarguments-97)
> ACPI Warning: \134_SB_.PCI0.PEG_.VID_._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch
> - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20130823/nsarguments-97)
> ACPI Warning: \134_SB_.PCI0.PEG_.VID_._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch
> - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20130823/nsarguments-97)
> ACPI Warning: \134_SB_.PCI0.PEG_.VID_._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch
> - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20130823/nsarguments-97)
> ACPI Error: Field [TBF3] at 270336 exceeds Buffer [NULL] size 262144
> (bits) (20130823/dsopcode-249) ACPI Error: Method parse/execution
> failed [\134_SB_.PCI0.PEG_.VID_.GETB] (Node 0xfffff80005341e00),
> AE_AML_BUFFER_LIMIT (20130823/psparse-553) ACPI Error: Method
> parse/execution failed [\134_SB_.PCI0.PEG_.VID_._ROM] (Node
> 0xfffff80005341e40), AE_AML_BUFFER_LIMIT (20130823/psparse-553) ACPI
> Warning: \134_SB_.PCI0.PEG_.VID_._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch -
> Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20130823/nsarguments-97) em0:
> link state changed to UP ACPI Warning: \134_SB_.PCI0.PEG_.VID_._DSM:
> Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package]
> (20130823/nsarguments-97) ACPI Warning: \134_SB_.PCI0.PEG_.VID_._DSM:
> Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package]
> (20130823/nsarguments-97) ACPI Warning: \134_SB_.PCI0.PEG_.VID_._DSM:
> Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package]
> (20130823/nsarguments-97) ACPI Warning: \134_SB_.PCI0.PEG_.VID_._DSM:
> Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package]
> (20130823/nsarguments-97) ACPI Warning: \134_SB_.PCI0.PEG_.VID_._DSM:
> Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package]
> (20130823/nsarguments-97) ACPI Warning: \134_SB_.PCI0.PEG_.VID_._DSM:
> Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package]
> (20130823/nsarguments-97) ACPI Warning: \134_SB_.PCI0.PEG_.VID_._DSM:
> Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package]
> (20130823/nsarguments-97) ACPI Warning: \134_SB_.PCI0.PEG_.VID_._DSM:
> Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package]
> (20130823/nsarguments-97) ACPI Warning: \134_SB_.PCI0.PEG_.VID_._DSM:
> Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package]
> (20130823/nsarguments-97) ACPI Warning: \134_SB_.PCI0.PEG_.VID_._DSM:
> Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package]
> (20130823/nsarguments-97) ACPI Warning: \134_SB_.PCI0.PEG_.VID_._DSM:
> Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package]
> (20130823/nsarguments-97) ACPI Warning: \134_SB_.PCI0.PEG_.VID_._DSM:
> Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package]
> (20130823/nsarguments-97) ACPI Warning: \134_SB_.PCI0.PEG_.VID_._DSM:
> Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package]
> (20130823/nsarguments-97) ACPI Warning: \134_SB_.PCI0.PEG_.VID_._DSM:
> Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package]
> (20130823/nsarguments-97) ACPI Warning: \134_SB_.PCI0.PEG_.VID_._DSM:
> Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package]
> (20130823/nsarguments-97) ACPI Warning: \134_SB_.PCI0.PEG_.VID_._DSM:
> Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package]
> (20130823/nsarguments-97) ACPI Warning: \134_SB_.PCI0.PEG_.VID_._DSM:
> Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package]
> (20130823/nsarguments-97) ACPI Warning: \134_SB_.PCI0.PEG_.VID_._DSM:
> Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package]
> (20130823/nsarguments-97)
> 
> I updated BIOS with
> http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS037576
> to have the newsest version.
> 
> 
> I have seen such an error message reported to the letter in Sep '13 by
> Hiren. Can anybody help me understand what's happening here, I have
> absolutely no idea what that should mean.
> 
> Thanks and cheers, 

cc'ing MAINTAINER of x11/nvidia-driver and freebsd-x11

After some investigation, it appears that due to "errors" in the acpi
implementation, the driver issues non-conforming acpi calls. Similiar
problems have been reported on Archlinux.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=170074
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/37465
https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/bbswitch/issues/65

I have opened a topic on devtalk.nvidia.com

https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/680155/freebsd/x11-nvidia-driver-331-20-malfunction/

I have can be of any assistance debugging, please say so.

Thanks for any attention,
-- 
Christopher 
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