On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 04:41:40PM -0700, Evan Dower wrote: > The new nvidia-driver was unstable for me as well. So much so that I > deinstalled it so I could get some actual work done. I never was able o get > any specifics about it, as I don't have a serial console set up, and when > it crashes it freezes the screen. I can tell you this much though. > Sometimes when it locked up, I was able to ssh in from another machine, see > that XFree86 was taking 98-99% of CPU time, kill XFree86, and continue on. > Other times, I couldn't even ssh in, as the connection hung, so I had to do > a hard restart. The timing of these crashes was entirely unpredictable. > I have a GeForce 3 Ti 200 and FreeBSD 5.1-RELENG. I tried with both AGP's. > Loading nvidia-driver into a debug kernel (INVARIANTS and WITNESS) still > causes an immediate panic. I don't know how the Nvidia people can do QA on > this without a debugging kernel. Just poorly I guess. I hope someone finds > this helpful though I would be shocked if it did. I would be happy > (ecstatic, actually) to run any experiments someone might be interested in.
I've found the nvidia driver to be very stable, using a new -CURRENT build and the NVidia agp driver. I've got a GeForce 4200 Go, and the only thing the nvidia driver doesn't seem to like is changing resolutions - I've had a few problems including a reboot from that. Unloading the module panics the kernel, with malloc(9)/free(9) confusion possibly freeing with wrong type, but maybe not here. I can get a backtrace, if anybody's interested. I also get a few LORs from the driver, which trace back to the sources in /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver/work. -- Bruce Cran > Many thanks, > Evan Dower > Undergraduate, Computer Science > University of Washington > > >From: "Brian Kincaid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: NVidia driver stability? > >Date: 10 Jul 2003 15:45:41 -0700 > >MIME-Version: 1.0 > >Received: from mx2.freebsd.org ([216.136.204.119]) by > >mc3-f9.law16.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5600); Thu, 10 > >Jul 2003 15:46:07 -0700 > >Received: from hub.freebsd.org (hub.freebsd.org [216.136.204.18])by > >mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPid 1BF42562AC; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 > >15:45:50 -0700 (PDT)(envelope-from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > >Received: from hub.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1])by hub.freebsd.org > >(Postfix) with ESMTPid AE42737B40B; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 15:45:49 -0700 (PDT) > >Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])by > >hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A39337B401for > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 15:45:42 -0700 (PDT) > >Received: from smtp.webbox.com (66.234.quiknet.com [207.183.234.66])by > >mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87FCE43FD7for > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 15:45:41 -0700 (PDT)(envelope-from > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]) > >Received: from mdev ([207.183.234.66]) by smtp.webbox.com with > >MicrosoftSMTPSVC(5.5.1877.197.19); Thu, 10 Jul 2003 15:45:41 -0700 > >X-Message-Info: JGTYoYF78jEHjJx36Oi8+Q1OJDRSDidP > >Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >X-BeenThere: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 > >Precedence: list > >List-Id: Discussions about the use of > >FreeBSD-current<freebsd-current.freebsd.org> > >List-Unsubscribe: > ><http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current>,<mailto:[EMAIL > >PROTECTED]> > >List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current> > >List-Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >List-Subscribe: > ><http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current>,<mailto:[EMAIL > >PROTECTED]> > >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >X-OriginalArrivalTime: 10 Jul 2003 22:46:07.0824 (UTC) > >FILETIME=[0D491D00:01C34735] > > > > > >Hi, > > > >Yes, I can replicate the behavior you describe upon running glxinfo > >repeatedly. I have not yet had any trouble with xvinfo. I have > >also seen a couple of crashes (not repeatable) after running > >some of the xscreensaver-demo examples and/or some of the GL > >apps for xscreensaver directly. > > > >I am running a freshly built 4.8-STABLE system, plus a GeForce3 > >Ti 200 PCI card and a rebuilt version of the nvidia-driver port. > >Before I rebuilt the entire system and kernel the nvidia-port > >driver caused the system to page fault immediately upon starting > >X. > > > >I reverted to the standard nv driver for a while, then read a > >couple of messages on one of the freebsd mailing lists about > >the necessity of rebuilding everything due to a change in proc.h. > > > >After the cvsup, rebuild process, the nvidia driver seems to > >work, except for the problems mentioned above. > > > >Brian > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > _________________________________________________________________ > STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail > > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"