Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 19:33:39 +0200 From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@kukulies.org> To: Jon Noack <noackjr@alumni.rice.edu> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFreeze86 4.3.0 under 5.2.1R Message-ID: <20040402173339.GA32220@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <406300B9.8060808@alumni.rice.edu> References: <200403242106.i2OL6Nqm020587@www.kukulies.org> <406300B9.8060808@alumni.rice.edu>
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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
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