Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:23:15 -0400 From: "Philip M. Gollucci" <philip@ridecharge.com> To: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Cc: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>, Darren Spruell <phatbuckett@gmail.com>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: nvidia-driver rebooting machine on X startup Message-ID: <46E858C3.2020507@ridecharge.com> In-Reply-To: <200709122312.22676.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> References: <839aec700709061310m44a1f0f8p55fd7706ed3c02af@mail.gmail.com> <839aec700709111620n247bae1ard35ffeeeba356ae4@mail.gmail.com> <46E727E4.4030105@ridecharge.com> <200709122312.22676.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Mel wrote: > 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? I did not -- it was my office desktop and I didn't have time to futz with it much. Yeah I know don't run current then. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Philip M. Gollucci (philip@ridecharge.com) c:323.219.4708 o:703.749.9295x206 Senior System Admin - Riderway, Inc. http://riderway.com / http://ridecharge.com 1024D/EC88A0BF 0DE5 C55C 6BF3 B235 2DAB B89E 1324 9B4F EC88 A0BF Work like you don't need the money, love like you'll never get hurt, and dance like nobody's watching.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?46E858C3.2020507>