From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 11 10:18:00 2003 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 7449937B401 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 10:18:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pyroxene.sentex.ca (pyroxene.sentex.ca [199.212.134.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C11343F93 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 10:17:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from damian@sentex.net) Received: from pegmatite.sentex.ca (pegmatite.sentex.ca [192.168.42.92]) by pyroxene.sentex.ca (8.12.9/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h6BHHw8C053906 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 13:17:58 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from damian@sentex.net) Received: by pegmatite.sentex.ca (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 350EF17085; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 13:17:57 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 13:17:57 -0400 From: Damian Gerow To: current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030711171757.GE7797@sentex.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-GPG-Key-Id: 0xB841F142 X-GPG-Fingerprint: C7C1 E1D1 EC06 7C86 AF7C 57E6 173D 9CF6 B841 F142 X-Habeas-SWE-1: winter into spring X-Habeas-SWE-2: brightly anticipated X-Habeas-SWE-3: like Habeas SWE (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-4: Copyright 2002 Habeas (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-5: Sender Warranted Email (SWE) (tm). The sender of this X-Habeas-SWE-6: email in exchange for a license for this Habeas X-Habeas-SWE-7: warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant X-Habeas-SWE-8: Message (HCM) and not spam. Please report use of this X-Habeas-SWE-9: mark in spam to . User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-Virus-Scanned: By Sentex Communications (lava/20020517) Subject: Re: NVidia driver stability? 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, 11 Jul 2003 17:18:00 -0000 Thus spake Evan Dower (evantd@hotmail.com) [10/07/03 19:41]: > The new nvidia-driver was unstable for me as well. So much so that I > deinstalled it so I could get some actual work done. I never was able o get > any specifics about it, as I don't have a serial console set up, and when > it crashes it freezes the screen. I can tell you this much though. > Sometimes when it locked up, I was able to ssh in from another machine, see > that XFree86 was taking 98-99% of CPU time, kill XFree86, and continue on. > Other times, I couldn't even ssh in, as the connection hung, so I had to do > a hard restart. The timing of these crashes was entirely unpredictable. > I have a GeForce 3 Ti 200 and FreeBSD 5.1-RELENG. I tried with both AGP's. > Loading nvidia-driver into a debug kernel (INVARIANTS and WITNESS) still > causes an immediate panic. I don't know how the Nvidia people can do QA on > this without a debugging kernel. Just poorly I guess. I hope someone finds > this helpful though I would be shocked if it did. I would be happy > (ecstatic, actually) to run any experiments someone might be interested in. I've been seeing this *exact* same behaviour on a Riva TNT2 for some time now. I find the new driver to be a /little/ more stable -- i.e. it's only locked up once on me since I installed it on Monday, as opposed to locking up three out of the four mornings for the previous driver. I /do/ use FreeBSD's AGP driver, as I found that otherwise I just had massive instability problems.