From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 1 18:19:58 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A94716A420 for ; Wed, 1 Feb 2006 18:19:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from alejandro@varnet.biz) Received: from relay03.pair.com (relay03.pair.com [209.68.5.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9461643D48 for ; Wed, 1 Feb 2006 18:19:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from alejandro@varnet.biz) Received: (qmail 23353 invoked from network); 1 Feb 2006 18:19:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO phobos.mars.bsd) (unknown) by unknown with SMTP; 1 Feb 2006 18:19:56 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 200.115.214.28 Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 15:19:53 -0300 From: Alejandro Pulver To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060201151953.2ef2f011@phobos.mars.bsd> In-Reply-To: <20060201150621.11234c17@phobos.mars.bsd> References: <20060201150621.11234c17@phobos.mars.bsd> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.100 (GTK+ 2.8.7; i386-portbld-freebsd5.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: NVidia GeForce 6600 problems 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: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 18:19:58 -0000 On Wed, 1 Feb 2006 15:06:21 -0300 Alejandro Pulver wrote: > Hello, > > I have recently bought a GeForce 6600 video card, and sometimes (not > very often) I experience the following problem: > > A little after starting X11 (for example when I start downloading > e-mails), the screen freezes a few seconds, after that the screen > looks like if widgets (buttons, text, etc.) aren't drawn, and the > white background of Sylpheed-Claws covers the screen. Then I am > forced to switch to the 1st console (Ctrl+Alt+F1), which takes around > 30 seconds, and then kill X11. > > I have FreeBSD 5.4 release, Xorg 6.8.2 and nvidia-driver 1.0.8178. > > I know this problem is with the driver, because I got this kernel > message: > > NVRM: Xid: 8, Channel 00000000 > NVRM: Xid: 8, Channel 00000020 > > And the Xorg log has the following: > > (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000e74c, 0x0000e75c, 0) > (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (1, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000e74c, 0x0000e75c, 0) > Failed to switch consoles (Invalid argument) > (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000e74c, 0x0000e834, 0) > (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (1, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000e74c, 0x0000e834, 0) > (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 4, 0x8000, 0x0000e74c, 0x0000e844, 0) > (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (1, 4, 0x8000, 0x0000e74c, 0x0000e844, 0) > (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000e74c, 0x0000e878, 0) > (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (1, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000e74c, 0x0000e878, 0) > (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000e74c, 0x0000e89c, 0) > (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (1, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000e74c, 0x0000e89c, 0) > (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000e74c, 0x0000e8ac, 0) > (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (1, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000e74c, 0x0000e8ac, 0) > FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" refcount is 2, > should be 1; fixing. > > If more information is needed just ask (and please tell me how to > obtain it). > > What can I do? Should I update FreeBSD/Xorg? > > Thanks and Best Regards, > Ale I forgot to post the kernel module output when detecting the device: nvidia0: mem 0xcd000000-0xcdffffff,0xb0000000-0xbfffffff,0xce000000-0xceffffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1