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Date:      Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:23:15 -0400
From:      "Philip M. Gollucci" <philip@ridecharge.com>
To:        Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
Cc:        Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>, Darren Spruell <phatbuckett@gmail.com>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: nvidia-driver rebooting machine on X startup
Message-ID:  <46E858C3.2020507@ridecharge.com>
In-Reply-To: <200709122312.22676.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
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Mel wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 September 2007 01:42:28 Philip M. Gollucci wrote:
>> Darren Spruell wrote:
>>> If this *is* an issue with the nvidia driver, is there a good way for
>>> us to alert Nvidia? Customer support, I guess?
>> I've had the same issue, but I think I solved it since its working for
>> me.  If I had to guess, this was Jul 27, 2007 that I went through this.
>>
>> I did something similar or harder in May 2007, but the driver versions
>> were older then and so was the ports tree -- it was also on 6.2-release-p2.
>>
>> uname -a
>> FreeBSD philip.hq.rws 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #0: Thu Jul 26
>> 16:44:37 EDT 2007
>> root@philip.office.rws:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>>
>> nvidia0: <GeForce 8600 GTS> port 0xdc80-0xdcff mem
>> 0xde000000-0xdeffffff,0xc0000000-0xcfffffff,0xdc000000-0xddffffff irq 16
>> at device 0.0 on pci1
>> nvidia0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
>> nvidia0: [ITHREAD]
> 
> Did any of you determine whether it's a kernel crash or magical reboot by
> allowing the kernel to dump and/or running WITNESS on -current?
I did not -- it was my office desktop and I didn't have time to futz
with it much.  Yeah I know don't run current then.



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