From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 18 18:29:01 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C59C0106566C for ; Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:29:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from darcsis@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iy0-f182.google.com (mail-iy0-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 898D48FC0A for ; Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:29:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iadj38 with SMTP id j38so4868015iad.13 for ; Sun, 18 Dec 2011 10:29:00 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:organization:references:user-agent :x-envelope-to:mail-followup-to:date:message-id:mime-version :content-type; bh=1NLZU5ZaLB3IegUeCV2FRcNjnxfDv2cNJaGTh9mG6MU=; b=I2F/hW0wzkiTUdNBvRzmNS62TFjInLn4We35/MgU0dO+Y04yA6+XqlsrLMS3DiCcd2 ZVovO1l9VIKfmT9t6D0CFGxCOMibEUQ1HsCtO9LRyeOMZG2iI2Ok/EP7SNUWDe0vsWyk huGEtCkuw+J04T2rsfTGBxlUugwZTmmxcQN3Q= Received: by 10.50.190.195 with SMTP id gs3mr22829222igc.82.1324231418838; Sun, 18 Dec 2011 10:03:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost ([125.34.67.94]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id lu10sm27083908igc.0.2011.12.18.10.03.33 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 18 Dec 2011 10:03:36 -0800 (PST) From: darcsis@gmail.com (Denise H. G.) To: gljennjohn@googlemail.com In-Reply-To: <20111213121630.57adfa3e@ernst.jennejohn.org> (Gary Jennejohn's message of "Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:16:30 +0100") Organization: Pluto The Planet References: <20111213121630.57adfa3e@ernst.jennejohn.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (berkeley-unix) X-Envelope-To: gljennjohn@googlemail.com Mail-Followup-To: gljennjohn@googlemail.com, freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 02:03:27 +0800 Message-ID: <87wr9t4v0w.fsf@pluton.xbsd.name> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nVidia graphics card leads to X-server crashes X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:29:01 -0000 On 2011/12/13 at 19:16, Gary Jennejohn 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.