From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 25 21:53:23 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85ABD16A419 for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:53:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) Received: from snoogles.rachie.is-a-geek.net (rachie.is-a-geek.net [66.230.99.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4370913C4A3 for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:53:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by snoogles.rachie.is-a-geek.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AE0A1CDEE for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:53:22 -0800 (AKDT) From: Mel To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 23:53:20 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200709242235.27017.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200709252353.20728.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Subject: Re: nvidia-driver rebooting machine on X startup X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:53:23 -0000 On Tuesday 25 September 2007 14:22:56 falz wrote: > > Maybe someone can build a WITNESS/DDB kernel, since dumping seems to be > > failing? > > I compiled these options in last night, but I'm afraid I'm not quite > sure what special steps I need to do to utilize those options, if any. > I built that kernel, booted into it, started xorg with the nvidia > driver, it immediately reboots just as it did before. > > Something else that's odd that just started happening that's similar > to the original poster- their xorg.conf was being truncated to zero > bytes. Mine somehow gets changed to what appears to be a different > version. The bottom line in it is about 20 "U"s, and the 'Driver > "nvidia"' lines I added were gone. I have several xorg.conf files > named other things, but none have these characteristics. I fear it's a hard reboot then, if DDB doesn't catch anything. DDB is a kernel debugger, even if dump isn't on, it will catch panic stages. Stray bytes and truncated files are another sign of hard reboot. I'm afraid only nvidia can catch this one. Try downgrading to Xorg 7.2 and use the 97xx series of the driver, then freeze it until you see some solution posted :p -- Mel