From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 25 07:54:45 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 CBD2A16A4CE for ; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 07:54:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from cmsrelay02.mx.net (cmsrelay02.mx.net [165.212.11.111]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 88B1E43D2D for ; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 07:54:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from noackjr@alumni.rice.edu) Received: from cmsapps02.cms.usa.net (165.212.11.138) by cmsoutbound.mx.net with SMTP; 25 Mar 2004 15:54:43 -0000 Received: from optimator.noacks.org [65.69.2.212] by cmsapps02.cms.usa.net (ASMTP/noackjr@usa.net) via mtad (C8.MAIN.3.13N) with ESMTP id 365icyP3p0326M38; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 15:54:41 GMT X-USANET-Auth: 65.69.2.212 AUTH noackjr@usa.net optimator.noacks.org Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by optimator.noacks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05E836144; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 09:54:41 -0600 (CST) Received: from optimator.noacks.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (optimator.noacks.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 02621-05; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 09:54:40 -0600 (CST) Received: from alumni.rice.edu (compgeek [192.168.1.10]) by optimator.noacks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1FC46101; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 09:54:39 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <406300B9.8060808@alumni.rice.edu> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 09:54:33 -0600 From: Jon Noack User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5+ (Windows/20040312) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "C. Kukulies" References: <200403242106.i2OL6Nqm020587@www.kukulies.org> In-Reply-To: <200403242106.i2OL6Nqm020587@www.kukulies.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at noacks.org 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 Reply-To: noackjr@alumni.rice.edu List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 15:54:45 -0000 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 The NVIDIA/FreeBSD FAQ: http://www.soulwax.net/nvidia/ Jon