Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 02:03:27 +0800 From: darcsis@gmail.com (Denise H. G.) To: gljennjohn@googlemail.com Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nVidia graphics card leads to X-server crashes Message-ID: <87wr9t4v0w.fsf@pluton.xbsd.name> In-Reply-To: <20111213121630.57adfa3e@ernst.jennejohn.org> (Gary Jennejohn's message of "Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:16:30 %2B0100") References: <20111213121630.57adfa3e@ernst.jennejohn.org>
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On 2011/12/13 at 19:16, Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@googlemail.com> wrote: > > 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). > What did you compile your nvidia-driver with? clang or cc? If you compile with clang, nvidia-driver can only stand -O, any flags like -O2 will render the system unstable. Anyway, I am not running CURRENT. My box is a RELENG-9 amd64. nvidia-driver 290.10 works well with it. > -- > Gary Jennejohn > ................ -- The wrong quarterback is the one that's in there.
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