From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 3 07:13:22 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5D6A1065686 for ; Wed, 3 Sep 2008 07:13:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de) Received: from outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de (outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de [130.133.4.66]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CCA08FC1B for ; Wed, 3 Sep 2008 07:13:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de) Received: from inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.4.69]) by outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.69) with esmtp (envelope-from ) id <1KamYL-0006lm-3j>; Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:13:21 +0200 Received: from telesto.geoinf.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.86.198]) by inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.69) with esmtpsa (envelope-from ) id <1KamYL-0001se-2l>; Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:13:21 +0200 Message-ID: <48BE388C.7050706@zedat.fu-berlin.de> Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:11:08 +0000 From: "O. Hartmann" Organization: Freie =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Universit=E4t_Berlin?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Moench-Tegeder References: <48BD0C5A.4060706@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <20080902151456.GA1593@elch.haidundneu23.net> <48BE28F7.7030500@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <20080903063753.GA2120@reindeer.haidundneu23.net> In-Reply-To: <20080903063753.GA2120@reindeer.haidundneu23.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: 130.133.86.198 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nVidia driver update today: renders X11 unusable X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:13:22 -0000 Christoph Moench-Tegeder wrote: > ## O. Hartmann (ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de): > >>> Seems you've got an issue between X and firefox3; at least there's >>> a note in the firefox3 release notes which desribes similar effects: >>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=411831 >>> Oh, but by the way, it's not an nvidia/nv issue; I've got the exactly >>> same issues with radeonhd... Luckily, I do not depend that much on >>> web browsers, let alone firefox3. >> The issue of X with firefox is well known and be aured I'm aware of >> that. This issue I complained about is with nearly every client I use >> under X - and that includes Firefox. This 'issue' renders a bunch of >> FreeBSD boxes around here unusable, only those with non-G80 derived >> graphics boards seem to be not infected by the problem, but every box >> with FreeBSD (mostly 7.0/7.1). > > Ah, that explains why I'm having only the usual firefox issue, > obviously my laptop's "Quadro NVS 140M" is not a G80-derived > chip (nautilus, gimp, gnumeric do wirk fine without black bars). > The first mails read as if all nvidia boards were affected. > > Regards, > Christoph > My box at home has an older NV6800GT and I do not have this special issue, but instead I do have another well known issue of box-freezing. This also happens with 'nv'. Since FreeBSD 7.0 this freezing occurs more frequent than in FBSD 6, but in the meanwhile thenv-driver changed several times. It is a horror :-( Regards, Oliver