From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 25 22:00:22 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 A347A16A47B for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 22:00:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.231]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4473413C494 for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 22:00:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id l8so1158547nzf for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:00:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=vZRsJLUNONMWr/m3UirJmn56a+kXqsiWIgiQ+/ZiJfU=; b=npg8a+v+H1+7I183K1gtIOdH/SGO40agIxbNBj5gj5Q0yM7qBi2HggPA9ZFhyleHDTQs6o//KAQA6zOiquwAIJmhB0gHXjVl+/DwN6ytCNl7pvkTAm25HNMj8LRoZJrbpMxGseRlKTsq2bt53nq8YAOX8VrgRoV8yJtu/wT2gh0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=J9gts3SThkxWsgO3xTcrSwrKwXDK3xHbLafVvFp0NMkpPgbykoCIRveN2degcxSqY/zOdxxR+vir/C5jXwhboURzbPvfJebzZrWc8wIPzGRsquQUerKJq7zY+rLZi3piz1RfnN+B268BPlU37LN6Lcmq2LkcTmejWKJYGDFyS+0= Received: by 10.64.153.4 with SMTP id a4mr7631876qbe.1190757621192; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:00:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.105.2 with HTTP; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:00:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 22:00:21 +0000 From: "Aryeh Friedman" To: "FreeBSD Mailing List" In-Reply-To: <200709252353.20728.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200709242235.27017.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> <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 22:00:22 -0000 In some situations that will not work... for example 7.2 completely fails on a P35 chipset... see my update post for some ideas. --Aryeh On 9/25/07, Mel wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >