633892 - Blacklist NVIDIA NVS 3100M on driver 8.17.12.5896

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Graphics, defect)

Description

[Stuart Parmenter]

I've been getting 2-3 driver resets per day with this driver.  Win7-64

Comment 1

[Vladimir Vukicevic [:vlad] [:vladv] (needinfo me, slow to respond)]

8.17.12.5896 = 258.96, this should already be blacklisted I thought?

Hmm, just checked, apparently 257.21 is the cutoff.  Ugh.

Comment 2

[Mike Shaver (:shaver -- probably not reading bugmail closely)]

Can we use this to test the over-network blacklist stuff?

Comment 3

[Joe Drew (not getting mail)]

We should test our remote blacklisting capability with this!

Comment 4

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Why was this minused? We'd want to prevent these crashes *before* we ship, wouldn't we?

Comment 5

[Mike Shaver (:shaver -- probably not reading bugmail closely)]

We do want to, but with a weapon to my cranium I would ship without it -> softblocker.

Comment 6

[Bas Schouten (:bas.schouten)]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Why was this minused? We'd want to prevent these crashes *before* we ship,
> wouldn't we?

I'm not sure, but I believe we can blacklist this remotely, at any time.

One thing is we don't need to hold a code freeze or anything like that over this if our remote blacklisting works.

Comment 7

[Vladimir Vukicevic [:vlad] [:vladv] (needinfo me, slow to respond)]

except we would block the release if the remote blacklisting doesn't work, right? :-)

Comment 8

[Joe Drew (not getting mail)]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Why was this minused? We'd want to prevent these crashes *before* we ship,
> wouldn't we?

Fixing these specific driver resets, in my mind, in no way blocks the release, but I've got nothing against it being a softblocker. The downloaded blacklist is of course separate, and testing it is something that we should (are going to!) do.

Comment 9

[Stuart Parmenter]

This is a really terrible experience and we need to have your computer not go black randomly for sometimes 30 seconds while it resets the driver.

Comment 10

[Joe Drew (not getting mail)]

Woo!

Comment 11

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

Fixed again by bug 635044.