From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 15 18:31:53 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41A4516A41F for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 18:31:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from garyj@jennejohn.org) Received: from mail08a.verio.de (mail08a.verio.de [213.198.55.73]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 992AB13C45E for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 18:31:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from garyj@jennejohn.org) Received: from mx104.stngva01.us.mxservers.net (198.173.112.41) by mail08a.verio.de (RS ver 1.0.95vs) with SMTP id 2-0277352302 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:31:43 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mmm808.verio.de [213.198.55.120] (EHLO mmm808.verio.de) by mx104.stngva01.us.mxservers.net (mxl_mta-1.3.8-10p4) with ESMTP id 9ead2764.28478.155.mx104.stngva01.us.mxservers.net; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:31:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 65409 invoked from network); 15 Jun 2007 18:31:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO peedub.jennejohn.org) (89.54.136.74) by with SMTP; 15 Jun 2007 18:31:40 -0000 Received: from peedub.jennejohn.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by peedub.jennejohn.org (8.14.1/8.14.1) with SMTP id l5FIVaXi014082; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:31:37 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from garyj@jennejohn.org) Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:31:36 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn To: Pascal Hofstee Message-Id: <20070615203136.402a2df5.garyj@jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <1181929982.1086.6.camel@worf> References: <1181929982.1086.6.camel@worf> Organization: DENX Softwre Engineering GmbH X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.2 (GTK+ 2.10.12; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam: [F=0.2422726658; heur=0.500(-26400); stat=0.242; spamtraq-heur=0.500(2007022501)] X-MAIL-FROM: X-SOURCE-IP: [213.198.55.120] X-SF-Loop: 1 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 18:43:39 +0000 Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recent nvidia-driver trouble X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: gary.jennejohn@freenet.de List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 18:31:53 -0000 On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:53:02 +0200 Pascal Hofstee wrote: > Sometime during the last week i have started to encounter trouble with > my system locking up trying to switch from X to console, but only when > using the nvidia-driver kernel module. Using the plain "nv" driver > works without any problems ... When the lock up happens the system > seems to no longer respond to keyboard input etc. (haven't been able > to confirm wether or not remote access is still possible). > > Is anybody else experiencing similar problems out there ... this has > used to work for months without problems ... i made sure to force a > reinstall of the nvidia-driver port on every new kernel install but > that just doesn't seem to solve the problem either. > I've seen this also. It's a panic due to a NULL-pointer dereference someplace in the nvidia-driver. I suspect that it's related to the recent locking/mutex/whatever changes but can't prove it. All the crash dumps which I have are corrupted so I can't do a backtrace :-( The bug seems to be in the binary blob part of the driver, which means we have to wait for Nvidia to get around to fixing it. BTW I tried _all_ versions of the driver and every one of them exhibits this problem. I'm now using an old Matrox card via VGA (lost my DVI). --- Gary Jennejohn / garyjATjennejohnDOTorg gjATfreebsdDOTorg garyjATdenxDOTde