From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 2 09:33:48 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C986216A4CE for ; Fri, 2 Apr 2004 09:33:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from www.kukulies.org (www.kukulies.org [213.146.112.180]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C765343D31 for ; Fri, 2 Apr 2004 09:33:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kuku@www.kukulies.org) Received: from www.kukulies.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www.kukulies.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i32HXeqj032551; Fri, 2 Apr 2004 19:33:40 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from kuku@www.kukulies.org) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by www.kukulies.org (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i32HXdim032546; Fri, 2 Apr 2004 19:33:39 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from kuku) Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 19:33:39 +0200 From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" To: Jon Noack Message-ID: <20040402173339.GA32220@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> References: <200403242106.i2OL6Nqm020587@www.kukulies.org> <406300B9.8060808@alumni.rice.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <406300B9.8060808@alumni.rice.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: "C. Kukulies" cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFreeze86 4.3.0 under 5.2.1R X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 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, 02 Apr 2004 17:33:48 -0000 On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 09:54:33AM -0600, Jon Noack wrote: > On 3/24/2004 3:06 PM, C. Kukulies wrote: > >I installed 5.2.1R on a PIII/500 Box with a GA-BX2000 MB and 256 MB. > >GeForceMX400/64MB. > > > >I compiled /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver, installed and loaded it. > >First time without WITH_FREEBSD_AGP later WITH_FREEBSD_BSD. > >In the first case I was exactly once able to startup X11 (startx). > >After rebooting (with or without agp:load="YES") I get a totally > >freezing system. The screen flashes once or twice but stays in alpha mode > >and then I can only press the reset switch. > > > >Any ideas? > > > >Strange that I once was able to run it. That was at the time > >right after the java ports build while my system was > >still up and had the linux procfs mounted. I'm just mentioning this because > >the nvidia driver is somehow linux related, isn't it? > > Are you globally mapping libc_r to libkse in /etc/libmap.conf? If so, > remove this global mapping. The NVIDIA driver doesn't like threading > libraries that don't have TLS (which is planned to be ready for 5.3). > > More info (from NVIDIA no less): > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-threads/2003-June/000530.html It turned out to be not an NVIDIA related problem. I swapped in a MG200 AGP card and the problem persists. As soon as I start X, be it as xf86cfg, X alone or via startx I get this totally freezing. The system is dead after this. I enabled comconsole (boot.config:-D) and hints.sio.flags=0x20 and not a single sign of a kernel panic appears on the serial console. I had the strange effect that when looking once at the XF86Config it contained binary garbage and later it was 0 blocks. That had happened when I was doing a successful xf86cfg the last time. After that I had these crashes or call it freezes. Strange. The hardware isn't unstable I'd think. The only thing that is new is a WD800 disk (UDMA 100). How can I do a fresh installation of all the X11 stuff? Is it in the base distribution of is it installed through packages? -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku_at_physik.rwth-aachen.de