From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 10 14:45:53 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CB4F37B401 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 14:45:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ion.gank.org (ion.gank.org [198.78.66.164]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D07C843F93 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 14:45:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from craig@xfoil.gank.org) Received: from localhost (ion.gank.org [198.78.66.164]) by ion.gank.org (GankMail) with ESMTP id EDB0B2BBE1 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 16:45:51 -0500 (CDT) Received: from ion.gank.org ([198.78.66.164]) by localhost (ion.gank.org [198.78.66.164]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 12063-03-2 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 16:45:51 -0500 (CDT) Received: from owen1492.uf.corelab.com (pix.corelab.com [12.45.169.2]) by ion.gank.org (GankMail) with ESMTP id 8105A2BB8B for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 16:45:51 -0500 (CDT) From: Craig Boston To: current@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 16:43:34 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200307101643.34160.craig@xfoil.gank.org> Subject: NVidia driver stability? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 21:45:53 -0000 Hi, all, Just wondering if anyone has had any experiences (good or bad) with the new nvidia driver on CURRENT? So far I've found it to be pretty unstable... I tried reverting back to 5.1-RELEASE and recompiling the driver (i'm installing it from the port), but no luck. It works fine in 2D mode, but running GL apps sometimes causes kernel panics. Running glxinfo and xvinfo repeatedly is a quick way to cause strange things to happen -- segmentation faults, bus errors, and kernel panics. The backtraces I've gotten are pretty worthless since the panic happens in a completely random place every time (to date, inside the VM, in ATA, USB, and a couple other places but almost never in the NVidia module itself). Smells like kernel memory corruption to me. My setup is a PCI Geforce2 MX and a PCI TNT2. I'm using standard multi-head (NOT Xinerama). The port is compiled with WITH_FREEBSD_AGP, though it shouldn't make a difference. I do have an AGP Matrox card in the system, but disabling and/or removing it seems to make no difference. The only thing slightly strange is that I had to put Options "UseInt10Module" "on" in XF86Config to soft-boot the TNT2. Otherwise it had a big solid-colored block covering approximately 1/3 of the screen... Anyway, just curious if this is typical this driver on 5.1 or if it's an isolated problem :) Craig