From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 10 15:20:53 2004 Return-Path: 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 18A2416A4CE for ; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 15:20:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail5.speakeasy.net (mail5.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE76343D58 for ; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 15:20:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 10830 invoked from network); 10 Dec 2004 15:20:52 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 10 Dec 2004 15:20:52 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 12E6244; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 10:20:52 -0500 (EST) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: Tuc References: <200412100437.iBA4bXtw066999@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 10 Dec 2004 10:20:51 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200412100437.iBA4bXtw066999@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com> Message-ID: <44acsmrxgs.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why would a -pX release cause problems? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 15:20:53 -0000 Tuc writes: > I did a little more investigation of the problem with nVidia on > 5.2.1-RELEASE-pX where X is higher than 4....... > > It turns out that after hand applying patches, once I apply the > "msync5.patch" that was p9, my nVidia X starts to have problems and lock up. > Once I back this out, the machine operates properly. I also ran into problems > where programs were coreing on Signal 6's.... SSH became useless, perl would > fall over randomly, etc. > > This patch was all of 6 new lines, one changed line, but I can swap > back and forth and know that this will cause my machine to misbehave/crash. > > Is there any way to start talking to someone to figure out what the > cause is and maybe have a change done? You're hand-applying patches on a "technology preview" version of the base system. You could try talking to NVidia, but if you just want things to work on FreeBSD and you're not a programmer, I'd really recommend that you upgrade to FreeBSD 5.3 and install the NVidia driver from the ports collection. At least as a start.