Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 13:37:43 -0500 From: Justin Smith <jsmith@drexel.edu> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: This has to be a bug... Message-ID: <4038F6F7.5050000@drexel.edu>
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> >What video hardware are you using? I have a Geforce4 using the >nvidia driver and got used to crashes while starting games. Once the >game is up however I can't remember that I ever had a crash. It's difficult >to make a guess how frequently this happens, but since installing the >UT2004 demo (about a week ago) I had only one crash while starting the demo. >I have no idea how to reproduce these crashes :-(. > > >> time after a fresh install of it), it corrupts the file system in a way >> that requires one to manually run fsck. The first time I used the >> America's Army, even the manual fsck couldn't fix the fs corruption: >> there was a message "unrecoverable softupdates error". I was able to >> mount the partition, back up my data, rebuild the file system, and >> restore the data. Good point! I'm using a GEForce 2 card with the Nvidia driver. The only other time I got crashes like this was when I tried to run graphic-intensive applications under CURRENT (with debugging code turned on). So the nvidia driver might be responsible. Thank you! (I'll just have to close all the windows when running this...)home | help
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