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Date:      Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:15:11 -0400
From:      Eric Ekong <eric@unixtechs.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: nvidia-driver rebooting machine on X startup
Message-ID:  <20070912211511.GE1629@blackguy>
In-Reply-To: <200709122312.22676.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
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I setup to save dumpcrash, nothing was saved so I think it is just a
reboot.

Eric
* Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> [070912 17:12]:
> Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:12:21 +0200
> From: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Cc: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>, Darren Spruell <phatbuckett@gmail.com>,
> 	"Philip M. Gollucci" <philip@ridecharge.com>
> Subject: Re: nvidia-driver rebooting machine on X startup
> 
> On Wednesday 12 September 2007 01:42:28 Philip M. Gollucci wrote:
> > Darren Spruell wrote:
> > > If this *is* an issue with the nvidia driver, is there a good way for
> > > us to alert Nvidia? Customer support, I guess?
> >
> > I've had the same issue, but I think I solved it since its working for
> > me.  If I had to guess, this was Jul 27, 2007 that I went through this.
> >
> > I did something similar or harder in May 2007, but the driver versions
> > were older then and so was the ports tree -- it was also on 6.2-release-p2.
> >
> > uname -a
> > FreeBSD philip.hq.rws 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #0: Thu Jul 26
> > 16:44:37 EDT 2007
> > root@philip.office.rws:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
> >
> > nvidia0: <GeForce 8600 GTS> port 0xdc80-0xdcff mem
> > 0xde000000-0xdeffffff,0xc0000000-0xcfffffff,0xdc000000-0xddffffff irq 16
> > at device 0.0 on pci1
> > nvidia0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> > nvidia0: [ITHREAD]
> 
> Did any of you determine whether it's a kernel crash or magical reboot by 
> allowing the kernel to dump and/or running WITNESS on -current?
> 
> -- 
> Mel
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