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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
> ................ 



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