From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 13 11:16:34 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 B3B51106566B for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:16:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gljennjohn@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-ee0-f44.google.com (mail-ee0-f44.google.com [74.125.83.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C52C8FC15 for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:16:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eeke49 with SMTP id e49so2056615eek.17 for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2011 03:16:33 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:reply-to:x-mailer:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=MXouQ7C94jIgCZ7OPDQm4LF+oTFYyzPgGJmrlBGUwgw=; b=Qaz+NarBhxou7CmZC8qNhV41nIrko1TCobQcHvcrr0P8kZVhiopBr6S0u22aNqAstV HLmFe52N9HrlUcUXngs3sSuVwYjewQ+wOtsE56svj2LL9sHOQP036VUiqqKupzVPIKfY 9LFNZRMtDRuPvtgqQhfpGftsZJryZZBZNt7u4= Received: by 10.14.17.213 with SMTP id j61mr4128754eej.96.1323774993126; Tue, 13 Dec 2011 03:16:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from ernst.jennejohn.org (p578E2F29.dip.t-dialin.net. [87.142.47.41]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x12sm87889617eef.9.2011.12.13.03.16.31 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 13 Dec 2011 03:16:32 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:16:30 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20111213121630.57adfa3e@ernst.jennejohn.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.10 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: nVidia graphics card leads to X-server crashes X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: gljennjohn@googlemail.com List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:16:34 -0000 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