Deciphering NVRM: Xid codes
I realize that there are not few people suffering from kernel: NVRM: Xid messages and resulting graphics freezes. Although I googled the hell out of this, I didn’t find any reliable information on these Xid codes.
So here is my attempt to collect as many NVRM: Xid messages and a possible meaning or explanation for them.
NVRM: Xid (0002:00): 6, PE0001 – This one drives me bat-shit crazy. It seems that it can be a sign for a broken gfx card, mine produced such errors and it was definitely broken.
Solution attempt: If you have an AGP card, set “GW-Write Mask AGP Request” in your BIOS to ENABLE. (nV News Forums)
NVRM: Xid (0003:00): 8 – Operation timed out (NVIDIA forums)
NVRM: Xid (0002:00):13 – Seems to be similar to a segmentation fault, at least with CUDA (NVIDIA forums)