From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 15 19:11:03 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 8200216A41F for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:11:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rodrigc@c-71-192-57-29.hsd1.ma.comcast.net) Received: from alnrmhc13.comcast.net (alnrmhc13.comcast.net [206.18.177.53]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58A9E13C4BF for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:11:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rodrigc@c-71-192-57-29.hsd1.ma.comcast.net) Received: from c-71-192-57-29.hsd1.ma.comcast.net ([71.192.57.29]) by comcast.net (alnrmhc13) with ESMTP id <20070615190100b1300o562oe>; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:01:01 +0000 Received: from c-71-192-57-29.hsd1.ma.comcast.net (localhost.crodrigues.org [127.0.0.1]) by c-71-192-57-29.hsd1.ma.comcast.net (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l5FJ18ub002165; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:01:08 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from rodrigc@c-71-192-57-29.hsd1.ma.comcast.net) Received: (from rodrigc@localhost) by c-71-192-57-29.hsd1.ma.comcast.net (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id l5FJ18Wp002164; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:01:08 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from rodrigc) Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:01:07 -0400 From: Craig Rodrigues To: gary.jennejohn@freenet.de Message-ID: <20070615190107.GA2111@crodrigues.org> References: <1181929982.1086.6.camel@worf> <20070615203136.402a2df5.garyj@jennejohn.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070615203136.402a2df5.garyj@jennejohn.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: current@freebsd.org, Pascal Hofstee Subject: Re: recent nvidia-driver trouble X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:11:03 -0000 On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 08:31:36PM +0200, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > 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. Have you reported this problem to Nvidia? They don't regularly monitor FreeBSD mailing lists, but I've found that they are fairly responsive to e-mails sent to: freebsd-gfx-bugs@nvidia.com -- Craig Rodrigues rodrigc@crodrigues.org