From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 22 12:36:27 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 0955916A4CE for ; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 12:36:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from lakemtao07.cox.net (lakemtao07.cox.net [68.1.17.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8958743D1F for ; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 12:36:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from mezz.mezzweb.com ([68.103.32.11]) by lakemtao07.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with ESMTP id <20040222203626.USOI2432.lakemtao07.cox.net@mezz.mezzweb.com>; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 15:36:26 -0500 To: "Karel J. Bosschaart" References: <4038F6F7.5050000@drexel.edu> <20040222202911.GA21232@kayjay.xs4all.nl> Message-ID: From: Jeremy Messenger Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 14:35:31 -0600 In-Reply-To: <20040222202911.GA21232@kayjay.xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Opera7.23/Linux M2 build 518 cc: Justin Smith cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: This has to be a bug... 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: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 20:36:27 -0000 On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 21:29:11 +0100, Karel J. Bosschaart wrote: > On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 01:37:43PM -0500, Justin Smith wrote: >> > >> >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...) > > Did a quick test: > > I installed AA2 on my system and started it 10 times on 4.9, 10 > times on 5.2. On 5.2 it would start successfully all 10 times, but on > 4.9 it failed 4 times causing a reboot. Looks like the familiar thing > I see with other games as well but definitely with a higher probability > of failing. Some things are different on my installations: > > 4.9: linux_base 8, Nvidia AGP > 5.2: linux_base 7, FreeBSD AGP Here too on -CURRENT, it works fine on any OpenGL apps and games as long I use libc_r, FreeBSD AGP and set AGP 2x in BIOS (because of VIA chipest). Cheers, Mezz > and probably more things, but my suspicion is that the difference in AGP > setup might cause the trouble. Setting up AGP though is a sort of black > magic: just try and see if it does not crash is the usual way... :-(. > > Karel. -- bsdforums.org 's moderator, mezz.