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Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Chris <chrishutchinson1@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: nvidia-driver-295.49 is highly unstable
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On 06/04/2012 00:54, Pegasus Mc Cleaft wrote:
>     You know what it could be? I just had to rebuild my user-land 
> because of KDE updates and I use variables in my make.conf to switch 
> between base GCC and CLANG. I forgot to switch back to base gcc before 
> compiling the nvidia driver. I installed the driver and rebooted, xorg 
> came up but as soon as I logged in, kwin crashed, then the machine 
> kernel panicked and rebooted. I rebooted and crashed a few more times 
> before realizing what I had done. I recompiled the driver with GCC and 
> the machine has been rock-stable with the nvidia driver.
>
>     Maybe the OP has done the same thing and not realized it?

Unfortunately, that's not the case. I wish it was.

Yuri