Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:16:30 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: nVidia graphics card leads to X-server crashes Message-ID: <20111213121630.57adfa3e@ernst.jennejohn.org>
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So, after reading the thread about which graphics card to use for amd64 I decided to give a cheap nVidia card a try. I bought the MSI N210-D512D2H which, as the name implies, has the GeForce 210 GPU and 512MB of graphics RAM and is PCIe 16x. I then proceeded to install nvidia-driver from ports along with the nvidia-xconfig port. I used the latter to generate xorg.conf. X starts and everything seems to be OK until I try to start more than a few mrxvt's. For example, as soon as I start Opera or try to view a movie with vlc the X-server gets a signal 11 at 0x807dc73c3. So I then installed the latest, greatest driver from the nVidia site (290.10), but it had identical problems with the X-server getting the signal 11 at 0x80800efc3. I didn't pursue it any further since I need a working system. I haven't excluded the possibilty that I have a problem with RAM, but I must say that the onboard ATI graphics has worked without a hitch for several years. I've also done uncountable buildworlds, which is generally an excellent RAM tester. I have 4GB installed. So I'm at a loss to explain the problems which I've observed. I'm not looking for solutions, just thought I'd report my observations with a CURRENT-10 amd64 box. Don't know exactly which SVN revision it was, but I compiled the kernel yesterday (I'm not running it right now). -- Gary Jennejohn
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